anuntz inportant
komissaru
dupe aiea sa caca ajkie'n basca lor.
Anonyma
> anonimii sa ma pupe'n cur. pe rand. gogul inclus.
> dupe aiea sa caca ajkie'n basca lor.
SP la marinarii in Pireus.
George Orwell
> dupe aiea sa caca ajkie'n basca lor.
SP la marinarii in Pireus.
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Basil tot nedumerit (deh, la coana Tzvyka;) ):
Raspunde Radio Yerevan:
Carne de vier'~ai. Pai n'ai z^as tu insuti ca acuma ca suntem iar
sanatosi putem sa incepem sa ne cacam iar unul in palaria altuia? Te
asteptam pe post. Sa fii pe faza cand transmitem meciul contra
Iranului. Urmeaza un blog foarte lung, repetat si actualizat de cate
doua trei ori pe zi in ultima saptamana, de la un breten muzical din
California. Speram sa placa la domnii din Poiana lui Iocan, greii
politici ai SCR-ului, Djabba Stricorzu, ciubenu, ioropeanu, drama
ticu, Raspopa, Rinocerul, Ronin si tot neamul lor in gogul
IdahOOOOOianului. Iara noi are sa va mai futem si noi tot asa cate un
eMpisod si tot cu gogul.
Deci scuze pentru intinderea si prinsul de posturi straine al blogului
1-2. Inteleg ca la domni din astia cu apetit pulitic nu conteaza
lungimea. Daca ne mai fute si duom' injinieri cate un tub si Teocrit
cate o miercure cenushie, belim cu totii gogul.
Deci, domnilor, urmeaza Iranul cu peronul pe partea dreapta.
Eduard Iranian
Radio Yerevan
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
URGENT UPDATE! Averting WWIII
Early this spring there will be a False Flag Operation (or incident)
against Iran that will widen the conflict in the Middle East and
trigger WWIII.
As a reference I cite Zbigniew Brzezinski's (national security advisor
to Carter and author of the book "The Grand Chess Board") comments
that have been completely ignored by mainstream media.
"If the United States continues to be bogged down in a protracted
bloody involvement in Iraq, the final destination on this downhill
track is likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of
the world of Islam at large. A plausible scenario for a military
collision with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks;
followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure;
then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed
on Iran; culminating in a "defensive" U.S. military action against
Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening
quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and
Pakistan."
[SFRC Testimony -- Zbigniew Brzezinski]
Also...
We all know that Blair is set to "leave" office in April.
We all know from media reports that there are two Carrier groups in
the Persian Gulf.
We all know that Bush has been and still is actively seeking to attack
Iran.
Is there anyone out there that Trusts Bush and his Administration?
We all know that "They" are fabricating evidence once again to justify
an attack. (Just like they did in Iraq)
Iran Offers Evidence U.S. Arming Iranian Rebels
Iranian Claim Comes After US Alleges
Iran Arming Iraqi Insurgents
2-19-7
Terrorists Use US-Gifted Arsenals
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following a Saturday report about the use
of US manufactured weapons in the recent terrorist operations in
Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a security
official provided FNA with a photograph of the said weaponry. These
arsenals have been confiscated during a raid on the hideout of a
terrorist group known as Jondollah in the provincial capital city of
Zahedan on Thursday.
A bomb blast tore through a bus in Zahedan, southeast Iran at 06:10
(2:40 GMT) on Wednesday, killing 12 people and wounding 31 others.
The bus belonged to the Zahedan branch of the Islamic Republic's
Mobilized Forces (Baseej), and the passengers were all members of the
ground force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Earlier a source said that the relevant documents, photographs and
film footages showing that the explosives and arsenals used in the
attack were American would be presented to the public and media in the
near future.
He further pointed out that the terrorist group 'Jondollah' had
several plots for assassinating Sunni and tribal leaders to sow
discord and foment conflicts between the Shiite and Sunnite citizens
in Sistan and Balouchestan province.
Iran on Saturday invited international bodies to send envoys to Tehran
to witness documents and other corroborative evidence showing
involvement of foreign countries in recent terrorist blasts in the
country's southeastern provincial capital city of Zahedan.
Director General for the political affairs of Sistan and Balouchestan
governorate Soltan-Ali Mir told FNA that the US and Britain are behind
the recent terrorist attacks in the city of Zahedan, adding,
"Washington and London are facing serious challenges as their
interests in the Middle-East region have been endangered. Since the
Islamic Republic is the main center of anti-US struggles, they are
seeking to trouble Iran through a series of challenges, including
terrorist attacks and unrests."
Asked to elaborate on the documents proving involvement of the US and
Britain in recent incidents in Iran's Sistan and Balouchestan
province, he said,"The weapons that the terrorists have used are US
and British made. Moreover, the arrested terrorist agents have
confessed that they have been trained by English-speaking people."
The official invited representatives of the United Nations, Human
Rights watch and other international bodies to dispatch envoys to Iran
to observe the available documents and proofs substantiating
involvement of the Untied States and Britain in the recent terrorist
attacks, including the blast and shootout on Wednesday.
"The US and Britain, which allege to be pioneers in the campaign
against terrorism, are themselves actually defending the terrorists,
training them and providing them with the needed media and financial
supports and facilities," he added.
Soltan-Ali Mir further pointed out that the US and Britain intend to
create a series of incidents in his province similar to what they have
already done in Iraq.
"They intend to kill the Shiites and leave the footsteps at the door
of the Sunnis or vice versa. Some of the arrestees confessed that they
had plans to assassinate religious and tribal leaders of the Sunnis
and put the blame on the Shiites in a bid to foment ethnic and
religious conflicts," he stated.
The official also noted Iran's good and friendly relations with the
neighboring countries, and said that Iranian and Pakistani officials
will soon attend meetings to improve security at the borders.
Meanwhile, he called on the security officials of Iran's eastern
neighbors to take the required precautions to secure their joint
borders with Iran, saying that it is now the Islamic Republic which is
paying a heavy price for securing the borders and that neighboring
countries should enhance their efforts to prevent terrorists from
trafficking across the border.
We all know that Russia is supplying missiles to Iran.
We all know that Russia has supplied Anti Ship missiles to Iran.
We all know that Iran has been conducting tests of these missiles.
Congress is just buying time for this event to be able to occur with
their NON BINDING RESOLUTIONS and other Trivial Pursuits.
The Writing Is On The Wall.
This has been brewing for months.
All of this has been reported in the mainstream media.
Have you been paying attention?
Are you capable of connecting the dots?
When it does go down, all the clueless "Patriotic" Gumby's, Mass Media
and Congress will fall in step.
Bush will say I told you so... and then it's off to the completely
contrived Armageddon. Mass Stupidity and Complicity.
The World as we know it now... will be forever changed, for the worst.
Do you care enough to do something about it?
Or will you continue your Trivial Pursuits...
Recent News Articles:
U.S. patrol ship on alert in gulf
Amid tensions with Iran, a small Navy craft looks to a task force's
arrival in the region.
By Tony Perry
Times Staff Writer
February 16, 2007
ABOARD THE USS FIREBOLT - Every day the 30 sailors on this coastal
patrol ship in the Persian Gulf are on alert. At 170 feet in length,
the Firebolt and similar craft are the smallest and possibly the most
lightly armed vessels in the U.S. Navy.
Soon the Firebolt will be joined in the region by one of the Navy's
most heavily armed behemoths: the 1,092-foot-long carrier John C.
Stennis, with a crew of 5,000 and more than 80 warplanes. The Stennis
will head a strike force of destroyers, cruisers and submarines
deployed to the region by the Bush administration amid heightened
tensions with Iran over its nuclear program and allegations of Tehran
meddling in Iraq.
Despite their differences in size and weaponry, the Firebolt and the
Stennis share a stated mission: deter the Iranian navy from hostile
acts in an area vital to oil shipments by showing Tehran that the
strength of the U.S. military remains formidable despite its
entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iran, for its part, has begun an air and naval exercise, and has
announced that it has tested a missile capable of sinking a large
ship. In November, the Iranian navy released pictures of mines it said
could be used to deny access to the Persian Gulf by ships considered
"invaders."
Although there is no denying that the Stennis and its strike force
bring with them the ability to attack Iran's nuclear sites, officials
in Washington and Tehran appear to be focusing on the near-term threat
of a naval confrontation.
Such a clash could be disastrous for the world's oil supplies, 40% of
which pass in tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a 34-mile-wide
choke point at the southern edge of the 600-mile-long gulf.
Vice Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet, based in
Bahrain, said the Iranians, by conducting live-fire missile exercises
near the strait, had created "an environment of intimidation and fear"
among gulf nations.
"We will continue to stand by our friends in the region," Walsh said
in an e-mail to The Times.
The Iranians, however, view any American presence in gulf waters as a
provocation and security threat, and have repeatedly issued warnings
that they have the ability to attack U.S. ships by using drone
aircraft, small boats and missiles.
In testimony before Congress two weeks ago, Admiral William J. Fallon,
President Bush's nominee to be commander of U.S. Central Command, said
it was clear from the Iranians' recent military acquisitions and showy
exercises that their main strategy was to "deny us the ability to
operate in this vicinity."
Asked by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) whether the Iranians had the
ability to close the Strait of Hormuz, Fallon responded that he would
be glad to answer - in closed session.
Iran has deployed mines in the gulf before. In April 1988, near the
end of the Iran-Iraq war, the guided-missile frigate Samuel B. Roberts
nearly sank after hitting a mine while escorting oil tankers. After
determining the mine was Iranian, the U.S. sank two Iranian warships
and six armed speedboats in what was called Operation Praying Mantis.
In July of that year, the guided-missile cruiser Vincennes, which had
been sent to the gulf to protect the Roberts as it left the waterway,
mistakenly shot down an Iranian airliner, killing 290 people. The
Vincennes' captain said he believed the airliner was a military plane
attempting a strike.
Analysts suggest that Iran's current strategy might be to trap U.S.
ships in the gulf by laying mines at the Strait of Hormuz, or by
launching an attack using its three submarines.
The Iranians have boasted that their Russian-built diesel-powered
submarines are so quiet that the vessels have been able to operate
within striking distance of U.S. ships without being detected. The
chief of the Iranian navy is a submariner.
But analysts say that closing the Strait of Hormuz, even briefly,
could prove economically disastrous for Tehran, given its dependence
on its oil exports.
"They may be religious enthusiasts, but they're not stupid," said John
Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, which analyzes military trends.
"They play things so close to the line that without oil revenue, they
could be finished."
Part of the Iranian strategy is to have, in effect, a navy within a
navy. The Revolutionary Guard's navy, which acts somewhat
independently of the regular navy, has hundreds of boats that could be
used to "swarm" American ships, analysts say.
Although the U.S. could sink many of the boats quickly, some might be
able to inflict enough damage to allow the Iranians to claim a
symbolic victory, analysts say. But in recent years, the U.S. has
armed its smaller ships with weapons that can repel smaller craft.
Any pledge to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, Walsh said, "must have
sustainability, visibility and muscle for it to be credible." To
provide extra muscle, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates ordered the
Stennis to join the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower in the region.
Technically, the Navy will not confirm that the Stennis will be in the
gulf, suggesting that it could be stationed in the Gulf of Oman, just
outside the Strait of Hormuz, or much farther south, off the Horn of
Africa.
While it awaits the arrival of the Stennis in the region, the
Firebolt's crew keeps a wary eye on the two Iraqi oil terminals in the
gulf. Crew members are convinced that if the U.S. and Iran are headed
for confrontation, they'll be in the middle of it.
"If we have to go to close quarters, we're going to see a lot more
than the guys on the big ships," said sailor Douglas Stevenson, 28, of
Erie, Pa. "This is why we signed on the dotted line."
Times staff writer Peter Spiegel in Washington contributed to this
report.
Iran's Elite Guards to Hold War Games
By Associated Press
Sun Feb 18, 3:46 AM
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards will launch their
second war games in a month on Monday, just days ahead of a U.N.
deadline regarding Iran's nuclear program.
The Revolutionary Guards will begin three days of ground maneuvers,
the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Sunday
"The guards will practice various kinds of fighting tactics including
tactics of asymmetrical warfare," the report said without elaborating.
The exercises are to take place in 16 of Iran's 30 provinces, IRNA
reported. Some 60,000 troops were expected to participate _ in line
with past exercises. The games were planned before the United Nations
Security Council approved economic sanctions against Iran on Dec. 23.
In December, the council gave Iran 60 days to halt uranium enrichment,
otherwise it will consider taking additional measures beyond the
sanctions in place. Enrichment is necessary to produce fuel for
nuclear reactors, but also to make nuclear weapons.
As tensions rise over Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, the
United States and Iran have pursued an escalating series of military
moves, with Washington sending more aircraft carriers to the region
and Iran responding with more frequent maneuvers.
The Revolutionary Guards is an elite military corps with more than
200,000 members and its own naval and air forces. It is independent of
the regular armed forces and controlled directly by the supreme
leader. It oversees vital interests such as oil and natural gas
installations and the nation's missile arsenal.
In January, the Guards held three days of war games.
The United States and several of its Western allies believe that Iran
is using the nuclear program to produce an atomic weapon _ charges
Iran denies, saying its aim is to generate electricity.
Iran - Ready to attack
Dan Plesch
Published 19 February 2007
American preparations for invading Iran are complete, Dan Plesch
reveals. Plus Rageh Omaar's insights from Iran and Andrew Stephen on
fears George Bush's administration will blunder into war
American military operations for a major conventional war with Iran
could be implemented any day. They extend far beyond targeting suspect
WMD facilities and will enable President Bush to destroy Iran's
military, political and economic infrastructure overnight using
conventional weapons.
British military sources told the New Statesman, on condition of
anonymity, that "the US military switched its whole focus to Iran" as
soon as Saddam Hussein was kicked out of Baghdad. It continued this
strategy, even though it had American infantry bogged down in fighting
the insurgency in Iraq.
The US army, navy, air force and marines have all prepared battle
plans and spent four years building bases and training for "Operation
Iranian Freedom". Admiral Fallon, the new head of US Central Command,
has inherited computerised plans under the name TIRANNT (Theatre Iran
Near Term).
The Bush administration has made much of sending a second aircraft
carrier to the Gulf. But it is a tiny part of the preparations. Post
9/11, the US navy can put six carriers into battle at a month's
notice. Two carriers in the region, the USS John C Stennis and the USS
Dwight D EisenhowerUSS Ronald Reagan, USS Harry S Truman and USS
Theodore Roosevelt, as well as by USS Nimitz. Each carrier force
includes hundreds of cruise missiles.
Then there are the marines, who are not tied down fighting in Iraq.
Several marine forces are assembling, each with its own aircraft
carrier. These carrier forces can each conduct a version of the D-Day
landings. They come with landing craft, tanks, jump-jets, thousands of
troops and, yes, hundreds more cruise missiles. Their task is to
destroy Iranian forces able to attack oil tankers and to secure
oilfields and installations. They have trained for this mission since
the Iranian revolution of 1979.
Today, marines have the USS Boxer and USS Bataan carrier forces in the
Gulf and probably also the USS>and USS Bonhomme Richard. Three others,
the USS Peleliu, USS Wasp and USS Iwo Jima, are ready to join them.
Earlier this year, HQ staff to manage these forces were moved from
Virginia to Bahrain.
Vice-President Dick Cheney has had something of a love affair with the
US marines, and this may reach its culmination in the fishing villages
along Iran's Gulf coast. Marine generals hold the top jobs at Nato, in
the Pentagon and are in charge of all nuclear weapons. No marine has
held any of these posts before.
Traditionally, the top nuclear job went either to a commander of the
navy's Trident submarines or of the air force's bombers and missiles.
Today, all these forces follow the orders of a marine, General James
Cartwright, and are integrated into a "Global Strike" plan which
places strategic forces on permanent 12-hour readiness.
The only public discussion of this plan has been by the American
analysts Bill Arkin and Hans Kristensen, who have focused on the
possible use of atomic weapons. These concerns are justified, but
ignore how forces can be used in conventional war.
Any US general planning to attack Iran can now assume that at least
10,000 targets can be hit in a single raid, with warplanes flying from
the US or Diego Garcia. In the past year, unlimited funding for
military technology has taken "smart bombs" to a new level.
New "bunker-busting" conventional bombs weigh only 250lb. According to
Boeing, the GBU-39 small-diameter bomb "quadruples" the firepower of
US warplanes, compared to those in use even as recently as 2003. A
single stealth or B-52 bomber can now attack between 150 and 300
individual points to within a metre of accuracy using the global
positioning system.
With little military effort, the US air force can hit the last-known
position of Iranian military units, political leaders and supposed
sites of weapons of mass destruction. One can be sure that, if war
comes, George Bush will not want to stand accused of using too little
force and allowing Iran to fight back.
"Global Strike" means that, without any obvious signal, what was done
to Serbia and Lebanon can be done overnight to the whole of Iran. We,
and probably the Iranians, would not know about it until after the
bombs fell. Forces that hide will suffer the fate of Saddam's armies,
once their positions are known.
The whole of Iran is now less than an hour's flying time from some
American base or carrier. Sources in the region as well as trade
journals confirm that the US has built three bases in Azerbaijan that
could be transit points for troops and with facilities equal to its
best in Europe.
Most of the Iranian army is positioned along the border with Iraq,
facing US army missiles that can reach 150km over the border. But it
is in the flat, sandy oilfields east and south of Basra where the
temptation will be to launch a tank attack and hope that a disaffected
population will be grateful.</SPAN>
The regime in Tehran has already complained of US- and UK-inspired
terror attacks in several Iranian regions where the population opposes
the ayatollahs' fanatical policies. Such reports corroborate the
American journalist Seymour Hersh's claim that the US military is
already engaged in a low-level war with Iran. The fighting is most
intense in the Kurdish north where Iran has been firing artillery into
Iraq. The US and Iran are already engaged in a low-level proxy war
across the Iran-Iraq border.
And, once again, the neo-cons at the American Enterprise Institute
have a plan for a peaceful settlement: this time it is for a federal
Iran. Officially, Michael Ledeen, the AEI plan's sponsor, has been
ostracised by the White House. However, two years ago, the Congress of
Iranian Nationalities for a Federal Iran had its inaugural meeting in
London.
We should not underestimate the Bush administration's ability to
convince itself that an "Iran of the regions" will emerge from a post-
rubble Iran.
Dan Plesch is a research associate at the School of Oriental and
African Studies
US 'Iran attack plans' revealed
USS John C Stennis is being deployed to the Persian Gulf
US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear
sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure, the
BBC has learned.
It is understood that any such attack - if ordered - would target
Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-
control centres.
The US insists it is not planning to attack, and is trying to persuade
Tehran to stop uranium enrichment.
The UN has urged Iran to stop the programme or face economic
sanctions.
But diplomatic sources have told the BBC that as a fallback plan,
senior officials at Central Command in Florida have already selected
their target sets inside Iran.
That list includes Iran's uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.
Facilities at Isfahan, Arak and Bushehr are also on the target list,
the sources say.
Two triggers
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says the trigger for such an
attack reportedly includes any confirmation that Iran was developing a
nuclear weapon - which it denies.
The Natanz plant is buried under concrete, metal and earth
Alternatively, our correspondent adds, a high-casualty attack on US
forces in neighbouring Iraq could also trigger a bombing campaign if
it were traced directly back to Tehran.
Long range B2 stealth bombers would drop so-called "bunker-busting"
bombs in an effort to penetrate the Natanz site, which is buried some
25m (27 yards) underground.
The BBC's Tehran correspondent Frances Harrison says the news that
there are now two possible triggers for an attack is a concern to
Iranians.
Authorities insist there is no cause for alarm but ordinary people are
now becoming a little worried, she says.
Deadline
Earlier this month US officers in Iraq said they had evidence Iran was
providing weapons to Iraqi Shia militias. However the most senior US
military officer later cast doubt on this, saying that they only had
proof that weapons "made in Iran" were being used in Iraq.
Gen Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said he did not
know that the Iranian government "clearly knows or is complicit" in
this.
At the time, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the
accusations were "excuses to prolong the stay" of US forces in Iraq.
Middle East analysts have recently voiced their fears of catastrophic
consequences for any such US attack on Iran.
Britain's previous ambassador to Tehran, Sir Richard Dalton, told the
BBC it would backfire badly by probably encouraging the Iranian
government to develop a nuclear weapon in the long term.
Last year Iran resumed uranium enrichment - a process that can make
fuel for power stations or, if greatly enriched, material for a
nuclear bomb.
Tehran insists its programme is for civil use only, but Western
countries suspect Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons.
The UN Security Council has called on Iran to suspend its enrichment
of uranium by 21 February.
If it does not, and if the International Atomic Energy Agency confirms
this, the resolution says that further economic sanctions will be
considered.
Bush All Set To Attack Iran - Report
Press Trust of India
2-20-7
LONDON -- The Bush administration's preparation to strike Iran is
complete with the top commander of the US Central Command having
received computerised plans for 'Operation Iranian Freedom', a report
has said.
"American military operations for a major conventional war with Iran
extend far beyond targeting suspect WMD (weapons of mass destruction)
facilities and will enable President George Bush to destroy Iran's
military, political and economic infrastructure overnight using
conventional weapons," the journal New Statesman has claimed.
In a story titled Attack-Revealed: America's Plans to Invade Iran, the
journal quoting British military sources, said 'the US military
switched its whole focus to Iran' as soon as Saddam Hussein was
removed from power. The White House continued this strategy, even
though it had American forces bogged down in Iraq.
The US army, navy, air force and marines have all prepared battle
plans and spent four years building bases and training for "Operation
Iranian Freedom". Admiral Fallon, the new head of US Central Command,
has inherited computerised plans under the name TIRANT (Theatre Iran
Near Term).
Even as the sending of a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf has been
highlighted, the US navy can put six carriers into battle at a month's
notice.
The report said any US general planning to attack Iran could now
assume that at least 10,000 targets could be hit in a single raid,
with warplanes flying from the US or Diego Garcia in the Indian
Ocean.
U.S. Navy Buildup Came After Iran Moves
By JIM KRANE, Associated Press Writer
02/20/07
MANAMA, Bahrain - Iran has brought its war games maneuvers over the
past year into busy shipping lanes in the Straits of Hormuz, the
narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which two-fifths of the
world's oil supplies pass, the top U.S. Navy commander in the Mideast
said.
The moves have alarmed U.S. officials about possible accidental
confrontations that could boil over into war, and led to a recent
build-up of Navy forces in the Gulf, Vice Adm. Patrick Walsh said in
an interview with The Associated Press and other reporters.
During maneuvers, Iranian sailors have loaded mines onto small
minelaying boats and test-fired a Shahab-3 ballistic missile into
international waters, he said.
"The Shahab-3 most recently went into waters very close to the traffic
separation scheme in the straits themselves. This gives us concern
because innocent passage of vessels now is threatened," Walsh said in
the interview Monday on the base of the Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Gulf
island kingdom of Bahrain.
Iran tested the Shahab during November maneuvers, which it said were
in response to U.S. maneuvers in the Gulf it called "adventurist."
Iran also showed off an array of new torpedoes in war games in April.
The carrier USS John C. Stennis _ backed by a strike group with more
than 6,500 sailors and Marines and with additional minesweeping ships
_ arrived in the region Monday. It joined the carrier USS Dwight D.
Eisenhower after President Bush ordered the build-up as a show of
strength to Iran.
The additional U.S. firepower has ratcheted up tensions with Iran. But
Walsh said the increase aims to reassure Arab allies in the Gulf and
prevent misunderstandings that could escalate into outright conflict.
"That's certainly what we're trying to avoid, a mistake that then
boils over into a war," said Walsh, who departs his command of the
Fifth Fleet this month to become vice chief of naval operations at the
Pentagon, the Navy's No. 2 post.
Walsh said the Navy was responding to "more instability than we've
seen in years" in the Fifth Fleet's region _ with conflicts in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Somalia, tensions in Lebanon and the standoff with
Iran.
The Navy has grown increasingly alarmed at what Walsh called Iran's
"provocations." Once cordial Navy ship-to-ship relations with Iran in
the Gulf have disintegrated over the past 18 months as Iranian vessels
made "probing" incursions into Iraqi waters, he said.
"They threaten to use oil as a weapon. They threaten to close the
Straits of Hormuz," Walsh said. "And so it is the combination of the
rhetoric, the tone, and the aggressive exercises in very constrained
waters that gives us concern."
Since the Stennis was ordered to the region, Iranian leaders have
increasingly warned that they would respond to any attack by closing
off oil shipping lanes or attacking U.S. interests.
The Straits of Hormuz are 34 miles across, but its shipping lanes are
only about six miles wide.
Walsh said it was doubtful that Iran could physically block the entire
six-mile lanes with mines _ but hitting only a few vessels with
missiles and mines would "terrorize" shipping and have the same
effect.
"It's more the threat of mines than the threat of closing the straits.
That would have dramatic effects on markets around the world," he
said.
Walsh said his biggest worry was that Iran would underestimate U.S.
resolve to protect its interests in the world's richest oil region. He
said the tone of Iranian leaders could make their commanders on the
ground more reckless. "It's a mix and a formulation where you can have
misunderstanding," he said.
Asked whether the U.S. Navy would launch an attack on Iran if Iranian
involvement were confirmed in a deadly incident in Iraq, Walsh said he
was unable to discuss the Navy's rules of engagement. But he added,
"There are events on land that can spill over onto the sea."
At the same time, Walsh said he understood that U.S.-allied Gulf
nations feared that any U.S.-Iranian military conflict could bring
attacks on their soil.
Walsh said he was aware that a University of Maryland/Zogby
International poll of Arab public opinion this month showed residents
of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and other allies believe
Iran is far less a threat than the U.S. and Israel.
"I'm trying to talk to those in the region, to give them assurances
that the reason we're here is to stand by them," he said.
A Moment Of Truth Has Arrived
EIR News Service
2-21-7
Two major events, both taking place this week, underscore the fact
that the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy, centered in the City of London, is
arrived at a moment of truth that could determine, in the immediate
hours and days ahead, whether the planet is plunged into a
civilizational dark age. Very few people and institutions around the
world have the faintest idea that this is happening, and among those
who would pose an alternative to this potential true global tragedy.
The events themselves, that signal this moment of truth, are the
following:
First, we have the arrival in the Sea of Oman this week of the USS
Stennis-led second US Navy carrier group. This means that the naval
assets are in place in the Persian Gulf region to orchestrate a
premeditated "accidental" confrontation between the US and Iran, which
could trigger a full-scale American pre-emptive attack on Iran. In the
past 24 hours, BBC has aired an exclusive expose of new US war plans,
that would target the entire military infrastructure of Iran for a
massive bombing campaign--not just limited strikes against a few
purported secret nuclear weapons installations. This event is
occurring as both Vice President Dick Cheney and President George Bush
are on long-scheduled overseas trips.
Second, we have the meeting this week of the Bank of Japan, where the
decision will be made whether or not to abandon the yen carry trade,
by raising interest rates. If a rate hike occurs, this will trigger a
blow-out of the entire dollar-based global financial system.LaRouche
has emphasized the entire global financial system is under the top-
down control of Anglo-Dutch financiers centered in London. They run
the system through the yen carry trade, and through the related
emission of floods of US dollars through the Fed's printing press. The
US government no longer reports M3 money supply data because they are
willfully covering up this element of the one, global
hyperinflationary bubble. The yen carry trade and the M3 pump priming
are run out of the City of London, and they are all part of the
biggest John Law financial bubble in history.
Now, with the Persian Gulf deployment and the Bank of Japan interest
rate decision both on the table at the same moment, we are seeing
manifestations--shadows on the cave wall--of a faction fight between
two rival factions within the Anglo-Dutch financial oligarchy,
otherwise known as the Club of the Isles. There is one faction that is
out to permanently destroy the United States now--once and for all.
They are ready to pull the plug on the whole system, to bring down
theUnited States and the entire nation-state system at this moment.
They want the sudden-death destruction of the United States. The
other, rival faction, wants a more managed process of destruction.
They want to bleed the United States to death more slowly. The goal of
the two factions is identical. Their approach differs.
LaRouche has emphasized, there is only one way to defeat this top-down
Anglo-Dutch drive to break up the nation-state system and plunge the
world into a prolonged dark age. That is a political solution, coming
from the Government of the United States. The lead must come from the
institution of the Presidency. This is why Cheney and Bush have to go
now! Once the Presidency has been restored, the U.S. can proceed with
an alliance with Russia, China, and India to impose a political
solution, based on what FDR did with the war mobilization and the
creation of the Bretton Woods fixed-exchange-rate system. That is the
only alternative to the plunge into hell.
WTF? Don't You People GET IT?
THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE BEFORE US RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!
Everything else you are doing is Trivial in comparison...
Everything that you are railing against will come to fruition if this
event occurs. [Martial Law after a retaliatory attack by "Iranians"]
So... the real question here is what can be done to defuse it... to
expose it so that when it does occur (if we can't stop it), "We The
People of the World" react to it properly?
It's one thing to preach to the choir, it's another to speak to the
masses in "America" and the world...
Political Activists should be activating on this... to expose and
prevent it. It is so much more prescient, as has been stated... this
spring.
Obviously this will not happen through "The Media" or from any
political candidate.
Political Activists... Do not be diverted by all the Election Crap... for
God's sake it is a year and a half off. This event is a month or two
out. Maybe even sooner.
What could possibly be more important than averting WWIII?
It would make everything else moot and set into motion an overt
dictatorship in this country. Then your activism will only be so much
wasted time and effort. And, You will be a permanent guest at a
detainment facility.
What needs to happen is the activists change their tact for a couple
of months to counter this (why do you think there are so many
candidates and the whole Presidential race has begun so soon?
(Diversion and division.)
What also needs to happen is those with money need to use it.
Buy huge billboards on the highways and full-page layouts in the major
newspapers and airtime on TV and Radio and let the masses know what's
up, this is the only way the movement will gain enough momentum to
really do anything.
Those with voices and forums and talk shows need to speak
unrelentingly about this subject.
We the Little People need to inform each other, our family, our
friends, our coworkers, etc...Make this so overwhelming "THE MEDIA" has
to report on it.
This Contrived Madness Needs to Be Stopped! We The People, need to
stop it. History is about to be repeated... if We don't stop it.
Remember The Maine... Pearl Harbor... The Gulf of Tonkin... The Twin Towers...
Iraq, Etc...
Don't be Fooled Again!
I have done what I can.... by paying attention, informing you and
offering solutions.
What are you going to do?
Wake Up America... Time is Short.
Impeach Bush, Cheney and Remove their Entire Cabinet!
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
UPDATE Averting WWIII part 2
WTF? Don't You People GET IT?
"Theater Iran Near Term" (TIRANNT)
by Michel Chossudovsky
February 21, 2007
DUBAI, UAE, 21 February 2007. Code named by US military planners as
TIRANNT, "Theater Iran Near Term" has identified several thousand
targets inside Iran as part of a "Shock and Awe" Blitzkrieg, which is
now in the final planning stages.
According to the Kuwait-based Arab Times, an attack on Iran under
TIRANNT could occur any time between late February and the end of
April. This assessment, however, does not take into account the
disarray of US ground forces in Iraq as well as the untimely
withdrawal of several thousand British troops from the Iraq war
theater, many of whom were stationed in Southern Iraq on the
immediate border with Iran.
Revealed last April by William Arkin, a former US intelligence
analyst, writing in the Washington Post, TIRANNT was first established
in May 2003, following the invasion of Iraq.
"In early 2003, even as U.S. forces were on the brink of war with
Iraq, the Army had already begun conducting an analysis for a full-
scale war with Iran. The analysis, called TIRANNT, for "theater Iran
near term," was coupled with a mock scenario for a Marine Corps
invasion and a simulation of the Iranian missile force. U.S. and
British planners conducted a Caspian Sea war game around the same
time. And Bush directed the U.S. Strategic Command to draw up a global
strike war plan for an attack against Iranian weapons of mass
destruction. All of this will ultimately feed into a new war plan for
"major combat operations" against Iran that military sources confirm
now exists in draft form. [This contingency plan entitled CONPLAN 8022
would be activated in the eventuality of a Second 9/11, on the
presumption that Iran would be behind it]
... Under TIRANNT, Army and U.S. Central Command planners have been
examining both near-term and out-year scenarios for war with Iran,
including all aspects of a major combat operation, from mobilization
and deployment of forces through postwar stability operations after
regime change." (William Arkin, Washington Post, 16 April 2006)
The decision to target Iran should come as no surprise. Already during
the Clinton administration, US Central Command (USCENTCOM) had
formulated in 1995 "in war theater plans" to invade first Iraq and
then Iran.
"The broad national security interests and objectives expressed in the
President's National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Chairman's
National Military Strategy (NMS) form the foundation of the United
States Central Command's theater strategy. The NSS directs
implementation of a strategy of dual containment of the rogue states
of Iraq and Iran as long as those states pose a threat to U.S.
interests, to other states in the region, and to their own citizens.
Dual containment is designed to maintain the balance of power in the
region without depending on either Iraq or Iran. USCENTCOM's theater
strategy is interest-based and threat-focused. The purpose of U.S.
engagement, as espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States'
vital interest in the region - uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied
access to Gulf oil."
(USCENTCOM, http://www.milnet.com/milnet/pentagon/centcom/chap1/stratgic.htm#USPolicy
, emphasis added)
Consistent with CENTCOM's 1995 sequencing of theater operations, the
plans to target Iran were activated under TIRANNT in the immediate
wake of the invasion of Iraq. Confirmed by Arkin, the operational
component of the Iran military agenda was launched in May 2003 "when
modelers and intelligence specialists pulled together the data needed
for theater-level (meaning large-scale) scenario analysis for
Iran." (Arkin, op cit). In October 2003, different theater scenarios
for an Iran war were contemplated:
"The US army, navy, air force and marines have all prepared battle
plans and spent four years building bases and training for "Operation
Iranian Freedom". Admiral Fallon, the new head of US Central Command,
has inherited computerized plans under the name TIRANNT (Theatre Iran
Near Term)." (New Statesman, 19 Feb 2007)
Concurrently, the various parallel components of TIRANNT were put in
place including the Marines "Concept of Operations":
"The Marines, meanwhile, have not only been involved in CENTCOM's war
planning, but have been focused on their own specialty, "forcible
entry." In April 2003, the Corps published its "Concept of Operations"
for a maneuver against a mock country that explores the possibility of
moving forces from ship to shore against a determined enemy without
establishing a beachhead first. Though the Marine Corps enemy is
described only as a deeply religious revolutionary country named
Karona, it is -- with its Revolutionary Guards, WMD and oil wealth --
unmistakably meant to be Iran.
Various scenarios involving Iran's missile force have also been
examined in another study, initiated in 2004 and known as BMD-I
(ballistic missile defense -- Iran). In this study, the Center for
Army Analysis modeled the performance of U.S. and Iranian weapons
systems to determine the number of Iranian missiles expected to leak
through a coalition defense.
The day-to-day planning for dealing with Iran's missile force falls to
the U.S. Strategic Command in Omaha. In June 2004, Rumsfeld alerted
the command to be prepared to implement CONPLAN 8022, a global strike
plan that includes Iran. CONPLAN 8022 calls for bombers and missiles
to be able to act within 12 hours of a presidential order. The new
task force, sources have told me, mostly worries that if it were
called upon to deliver "prompt" global strikes against certain targets
in Iran under some emergency circumstances, the president might have
to be told that the only option is a nuclear one. William Arkin,
Washington Post, 16 April 2006)
"Shock and Awe"
US military planning includes specific roles to be performed by NATO
and Israel in the event of an attack on Iran. The German navy is
deployed formally un der a UN mandate in the Eastern Mediterranean.
NATO bases in Europe would also be involved.
Documented by Global Research, extensive war games were conducted
since last Summer by Iran and its allies of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization, including Russia and China. In turn, the US has
conducted war games off the Iranian coastline.
What is now being contemplated by Washington is an overwhelming use of
military force in retaliation to Iran's alleged non-compliance. This
of course is the pretext, the justification for waging war. The
Pentagon has also contemplated retaliating against Iran in the case of
second 9/11 attack:
"A third plan sets out how the military can both disrupt and respond
to another major terrorist strike on the United States. It includes
lengthy annexes that offer a menu of options for the military to
retaliate quickly against specific terrorist groups, individuals or
state sponsors depending on who is believed to be behind an attack.
Another attack could create both a justification and an opportunity
that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets,
according to current and former defense officials familiar with the
plan.
This plan details "what terrorists or bad guys we would hit if the
gloves came off. The gloves are not off," said one official, who asked
not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject.
(emphasis added, WP 23 April 2006)
The presumption of this military document, is that a Second 911 attack
"which is lacking today" would usefully create both a "justification
and an opportunity" to wage war on "some known targets [Iran and
Syria]".
Civilian Targets
Press reports in the Middle East confirm that the planned air strikes
are by no means limited to Iran's nuclear facilities. Central Command
Headquarters in Florida (CENTCOM) has already selected a comprehensive
list of military and civilian targets. Industrial sites, civilian
infrastructure including roads, water systems, bridges, electric
power plants telecommunications towers, government buildings are part
of the assumptions underlying the Blitzkrieg. "A single raid could
result in 10,000 targets being hit with warplanes flying from the Us
and Diego Garcia" (Gulf News, 21 Feb 2007)
Meanwhile, the US has been mustering support for its agenda following
the holding of a regional Security Conference in the UAE.
Nuclear War
Military planners are said to favor the use of conventional weapons.
The use of tactical nuclear weapons, which are now part of the Middle
East war theater arsenal, are not contemplated at least in the first
round of the US sponsored Blitzkrieg. However, the fact nuclear
weapons are acknowledged as a possible choice in the conventional war
theater is indicative that their use is an integral part of military
planning.
If Iran were to respond to US attacks in the form of targeted strikes
on US military facilities in the Iraq and the Gulf States, the war
will escalate to the entire region and the US could retaliate in the
form of "pre-emptive" nuclear attacks on Iran. The most likely
scenario is that Iran, in the logic of its own military planning,
would respond to US attacks as well as deploy ground forces inside
occupied Iraq.
Naval Deployment
Three strike groups including the Stennis, the Eisenhower and the
Nimitz are being deployed in the Persian Gulf. According to Gulf News,
"The Stennis strike group... is now strengthening a high level of US
Navy presence in the Gulf. The Stennis and the carrier Dwight D.
Eisenhower, already in the region, will soon be joined by the carrier
Nimitz. (Gulf News, 21 Feb 2007). According to British military
sources, the US navy can put six carriers into battle at a month's
notice.
Redeployment of US Troops
Confirmed by military sources, thousands of US troops are being
redeployed from US military facilities in Germany and Italy to
undisclosed destinations. One assumes that they are being dispatched
to the Middle East war theater in the eventuality that the air strikes
will lead into a ground war with Iran.
The Pentagon, contradicting its own statements, has dismissed as
"ludicrous" the press reports that the US is planning an all out
attack on Iran in the "near term".
Meanwhile, Iran has launched a three days war games entitled Eghtedar
or Grandeur. These exercises which involve naval, air and ground
forces are larger than those conducted last Summer. They are slated to
take place in 16 out of Iran's 30 provinces. The stated objective is
to establish a state of readiness to defend Iran in the eventuality of
a US attack.
The complacency of Western public opinion (including the US anti-war
movement) is disturbing. No concern has been expressed at the
political level as to the likely consequences of these attacks, which
could evolve towards a World War III scenario, with Russia and China
siding with Iran. With the exception of the Middle East, the war on
Iran and the dangers of escalation are not considered "front page
news." All of which contributes to the real possibility that the war
could be carried out, leading to the unthinkable: a nuclear holocaust
over a large part of the Middle East. It should be noted that a
nuclear nighmare would occur even if nuclear weapons are not used. The
bombing of Iran's nuclear facitlities using conventional weapons would
contribute to unleashing a Chernobyl type disaster with extensive
radioactive fallout.
Only a Test: White House Preps for Drill
By Associated Press
11/23/07
WASHINGTON - This is a test. This is only a test. President Bush's
Cabinet on Saturday will test the government's readiness to respond if
several improvised explosive devices were detonated across the nation.
Members of the Cabinet and dozens of other officials from the Justice
Department, FBI, Pentagon, Homeland Security Department and other
agencies will conduct the drill in the Eisenhower Executive Office
Building next to the White House. Bush will not participate.
The exercise, led by the president's Homeland Security adviser, Fran
Fragos Townsend, is not based on any threats to the United States,
White House deputy press secretary Scott Stanzel said Friday.
"There is a fictional scenario and the officials talk about how they
would react in the event of this fictional disaster," he said.
It will be the fourth in a series of drills since December 2005
intended to simulate the Cabinet's role, responsibility and authority
in responding to a disaster. Others dealt with pandemic flu, a
possible smallpox outbreak and a catastrophic hurricane.
posted February 21, 2007 at 1:10 p.m. EST
US-Russia tensions rise over antimissile bases
Russia has threatened to withdraw from INF missile treaty, and target
proposed US bases in Poland, Czech Republic.
By Arthur Bright | csmonitor.com
A top advisor to President Bush left for Moscow Tuesday to deal with
rising tensions between the US and Russia over American plans to build
missile defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic.
The International Herald Tribune reports that national security
advisor Stephen Hadley set out for talks in Moscow just a day after a
Russian general warned that Poland and the Czech Republic could become
targets if they played host to US antimissile bases, meant to defend
against Iranian ballistic missiles.
The trip by the adviser, Stephen Hadley, was planned weeks ago. But it
now comes in the context of the harsh Russian words about the
antimissile plan, the earlier stinging denunciation of U.S. policy by
[Russian] President Vladimir Putin, and the underlying Russian
suggestion that a hidden American agenda is designed to expand its
influence in Eastern Europe.
Comments earlier this month by Mr. Putin were hostile to the US
missile defense plan, saying that American plans to build such a
shield had "overstepped its national boundaries in every way."
RIA Novosti reports that those American antimissle bases could prompt
Russia to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
(INF) that the US and USSR signed in 1987. Nikolai Solovtsov,
commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces, said Tuesday that "If
a political decision is taken to quit the treaty, the Strategic
Missile Forces are ready to carry out this task." RIA Novosti adds
that Mr. Solovtsov's comments were not the first time that Russia has
publicly mentioned leaving the treaty.
Army General Yury Baluyevsky, the chief of the Russian General Staff,
said last February 15 that Moscow might unilaterally abandon the
treaty.
"It is possible for a party to abandon the treaty [unilaterally] if it
provides convincing evidence that it is necessary to do so," said
Baluyevsky. "We currently have such evidence."
The INF treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched
ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers
(300 to 3,400 miles). By the treaty's deadline of June 1, 1991, a
total of 2,692 such weapons had been destroyed, 846 by the U.S. and
1,846 by the Soviet Union.
The Associated Press reports that Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw
Kaczynski dismissed the Russian threat as "an attempt to frighten"
Poland, saying Russia's stance is not about security, but rather about
influence.
"To make it clear - this is not about Russian security; these
installations do not in any way threaten Russia," Jaroslaw Kaczynski
said on state Radio 1. "It's about the status of Poland and Russian
hopes that the zone, in other words Poland, will once again find
itself ... in the Russian sphere of influence."
"From the moment the missile bases are installed here, the chances of
that happening, for at least decades to come, very much declines," he
said.
Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg similarly dismissed Russian
comments, calling them "blackmail," reports Reuters.
"The Czechs will now think the shield is even more necessary,"
Schwarzenberg told Reuters on the sidelines of a business conference
in Warsaw.
"We have quite an experience with Russians. You have to make clear to
them you won't succumb to blackmail. Once you give in to blackmail,
there's no going back. We have to be strong."
However, the Guardian reports that while the center-right, pro-
American governments of Poland and the Czech Republic support the
missile defense plan, "some opposition parties are against the plan
and polls in recent weeks suggest that up to two-thirds of Poles and
Czechs oppose their country taking part."
There is concern among some that greater ties with the US will
increase the threat of domestic terrorism. A recent poll showed that
53% of Poles opposed hosting a base, while 34% were in favour.
The Guardian also writes that although Mr. Kaczynski and his Czech
counterpart, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, both oppose referendums
on the defense plan, they still have concerns about the presence of
sovereign US bases on their soil and the efficacy of the Bush
administration, given its troubles in Iraq.
Despite Polish and Czech claims that Russia's response is about
influence, Russia says that it is a matter of national security,
reports The Washington Post, as Iran, the shield's purported focus, is
decades away from being a missile threat.
Russian officials have said that Iran has no missiles capable of
reaching the United States or even Western Europe and that Iran is
incapable of developing them any time soon. Sergei Ivanov, then
defense minister, told the German newspaper Die Welt this month that
it would take "at least 20 years" for Iran to develop missiles that
could reach Central Europe.
"I think you can draw your own conclusions about which missiles this
system actually targets," Solovtsov said. "This is why we are watching
the situation with anxiety and concern."
But the Post adds that US officials admit that if they wanted, Russia
could easily overwhelm the missile shield - which only includes 10
interceptors. Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, head of the Missile
Defense Agency, said in January that the interceptors "are directed
toward rogue nations' capabilities, not an obviously sophisticated
ballistic missile fleet such as the Russians have."
Still, some experts understand Russia's concern. Otfried Nassauer,
director of the Berlin Information Center for Transatlantic Security,
tells German news broadcaster Deutsche Welle that the presence of US
bases in Poland and the Czech Republic would represent a renege of
NATO promises to refrain from military expansion into new NATO member
states near Russia.
As NATO planned its expansion to the East, the alliance had guaranteed
Russia it would not station any important military capacities on the
new members' territory for the long-term, Nassauer said.
"Now Moscow feels betrayed because the biggest NATO state doesn't feel
bound (to that guarantee) and wants to station national rather than
NATO capacities," he said.
Global intelligence provider Stratfor writes that while abandoning the
INF treaty would not make Russia a direct threat to the US, it would
effectively neutralize the threat to Russia of American missile
interceptors, while also dramatically shifting Russian military
influence in Europe.
Though a direct arms race with the United States remains out of the
question, a lopsided race in which the Russians focus on IRBMs
[intermediate-range ballistic missiles] could change the game
entirely. A barrage of several dozen IRBMs easily could overwhelm a
small squadron of BMD [ballistic missile defense] interceptors based
in Europe -- as well as any system that the United States conceivably
might field in the next 20 years.
To be clear, this is not an option that would buy Russia parity with
the United States. But it would be a stout reminder to Europe -- and
to the United States by extension -- that even a weakened Moscow is
not to be trifled with. Unable to reclaim the global power it wielded
during the Soviet era, Russia nevertheless could use a new IRBM force
to threaten Europe and, in so doing, resurrect a host of diplomatic
options that served Kremlin interests very well in the past.
Such a step might not mark Russia as a resurgent world power, but it
certainly would reforge perceptions of Russia as a power that is
impossible to ignore.
Nonetheless, Russia says that the tensions over the US missile defense
system will not lead to a new arms race, reports RIA Novosti. "The
current developments in the world do not point at a new variant of the
Cold War," Mr. Lavrov said.
THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE BEFORE US RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!
Everything else you are doing is Trivial in comparison...
Everything that you are railing against will come to fruition if this
event occurs. [Martial Law after a retaliatory attack by "Iranians"]
So... the real question here is what can be done to defuse it... to
expose it so that when it does occur (if we can't stop it), "We The
People of the World" react to it properly?
It's one thing to preach to the choir, it's another to speak to the
masses in "America" and the world...
Political Activists should be activating on this... to expose and
prevent it. It is so much more prescient, as has been stated... this
spring.
Obviously this will not happen through "The Media" or from any
political candidate.
Political Activists... Do not be diverted by all the Election Crap... for
God's sake it is a year and a half off. This event is a month or two
out. Maybe even sooner.
What could possibly be more important than averting WWIII?
It would make everything else moot and set into motion an overt
dictatorship in this country. Then your activism will only be so much
wasted time and effort. And, You will be a permanent guest at a
detainment facility.
What needs to happen is the activists change their tact for a couple
of months to counter this (why do you think there are so many
candidates and the whole Presidential race has begun so soon?
(Diversion and division.)
What also needs to happen is those with money need to use it.
Buy huge billboards on the highways and full-page layouts in the major
newspapers and airtime on TV and Radio and let the masses know what's
up, this is the only way the movement will gain enough momentum to
really do anything.
Those with voices and forums and talk shows need to speak
unrelentingly about this subject.
We the Little People need to inform each other, our family, our
friends, our coworkers, etc...Make this so overwhelming "THE MEDIA" has
to report on it.
This Contrived Madness Needs to Be Stopped!
We The People, need to stop it.
History is about to be repeated... if We don't stop it.
Remember The Maine... Pearl Harbor... The Gulf of Tonkin... The Twin Towers...
Iraq, Etc...
Don't be Fooled Again!
I have done what I can.... by paying attention, informing you and
offering solutions.
What are you going to do?
Wake Up America... Time is Short.
STOP THIS WAR BEFORE IT BEGINS!
Impeach Bush, Cheney and Remove their Entire Cabinet!
Report: Israel Wants to Fly Over Iraq
By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press Writer
Sat Feb 24, 3:56 AM
LONDON - Israel opened negotiations to fly through U.S. controlled
airspace in Iraq to carry out strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, a
British newspaper reported Saturday. Israel's deputy defense minister
denied the claim.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper quoted an unnamed Israeli defense
official as saying the talks were aimed at planning for all scenarios,
including any future decision to target Iran's nuclear program.
Israeli bombers would need a corridor through U.S.-administered
airspace in Iraq to carry out any strikes, the official was quoted as
saying by the newspaper.
Ephraim Sneh, Israel's Deputy Defense Minister, told The Associated
Press on Saturday that the report was incorrect. "This is baseless
information," Sneh said. "Maybe people like to divert (attention from)
the need for immediate economic sanctions (with) stories about
imminent Israeli action, which is not on the agenda."
The international community's focus should be on imposing economic
sanctions on Iran for defying U.N. Security Council resolutions, he
said.< P>
Senior officials of the five permanent members of the United Nations
Security Council _ Britain, the U.S., France, China and Russia _ and
Germany are meeting Monday for an emergency summit in London to
discuss measures against Tehran.
The U.S. and its Western allies insist Iran must suspend uranium
enrichment before any negotiations over its nuclear program take place
and accused Tehran of using a civilian program as a cover to develop
weapons.
Iran, has rejected the condition to suspend enrichment and insists
that its nuclear program is peaceful.
___
Associated Press Writer Amy Tiebel in Jerusalem contributed to this
report.
PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW!
Iran: U.S. Not in Position to Start War
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
1 hour ago....
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Saturday the United States was not in a
position to take military action against it and urged Washington and
its allies to engage in dialogue.
"We do not see America in a position to impose another crisis on its
tax payers inside America by starting another war in the region,"
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters.
Mottaki was responding to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, who renewed
Washington's warning to Iran earlier Saturday that "all options" were
on the table if Tehran continues to defy U.N. demands to halt uranium
enrichment.
At a joint news conference with Prime Minister John Howard during a
visit to Australia, Cheney said the United States was "deeply
concerned" about Iran's activities, including the "aggressive"
sponsoring of terrorist group Hezbollah and inflammatory statements by
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Cheney said top U.S. officials would meet soon with European allies to
decide the next step toward planned tough sanctions against Iran if it
continues enriching uranium.
"But I've also made the point, and the president has made the point,
that all options are on the table," he said, leaving open the
possibility of military action.
The United States and several of its Western allies fear that Iran is
using its nuclear program to produce an atomic weapon _ charges Iran
denies, saying its aim is to generate electricity.
The International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Thursday that Iran
had ignored a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to freeze its uranium
enrichment program and had expanded the program by setting up hundreds
of centrifuges.
Enriched to a low level, uranium is used to produce nuclear fuel but
further enrichment makes it suitable for use in building an atomic
bomb.
The IAEA report came after Wednesday's deadline of a 60-day grace
period for Iran to halt uranium enrichment. Iran has repeatedly
refused to halt enrichment as a precondition to negotiations about its
program.
Mottaki said negotiations, not threats, were the only way left to
resolve the standoff over Iran's nuclear activities and urged the U.S.
and its allies to return to dialogue when they are scheduled to meet
in London next week.
"The only way to reach a solution for disputes is negotiations and
talks. Therefore, we want the London meeting to make a brave decision
and resume talks with Iran," Mottaki told reporters during a press
conference with Bahrain's visiting foreign minister.
Bill Richardson, the governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico and 2008
U.S. presidential candidate, on Saturday also urged the Bush
administration to negotiate directly with Iran over its nuclear
program.
"Saber-rattling is not a good way to get the Iranians to cooperate,"
Richardson said in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post. "But it is a
good way to start a new war."
A better approach, said Richardson, who served as U.N. ambassador
during former U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration, "would be
for the United States to engage directly with the Iranians and to lead
a global diplomatic offensive to prevent them from building nuclear
weapons."
Iran, he said, 'will not end their nuclear program because we threaten
them and call them names."
Iran has said it will never give up its right under the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel
even at the risk of sanctions.
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Iranian Envoy Blasts U.S., U.K., Israel
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
Sat Feb 24, 0:38 AM....
UNITED NATIONS - Iran accused the United States, Britain and Israel of
making "baseless allegations" about its nuclear ambitions, insisting
that it has always considered weapons of mass destruction to be
"inhumane, immoral and illegal."
Iran's deputy U.N. ambassador Mehdi Danesh Yazdi told the U.N.
Security Council Friday that his country has an "inalienable right" to
develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and would not "give
in to the pressures emanating from groundless and unsubstantiated
allegations and ulterior political motives."
Iran was a last-minute addition to the list of countries speaking at a
daylong council meeting on implementation of a 2004 resolution
requiring all U.N. member states to pass laws to keep nuclear,
chemical and biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists and
black marketeers.
The meeting took place a day after the International Atomic Energy
Agency reported that Iran had ignored a council ultimatum to freeze
uranium enrichment _ a possible pathway to nuclear arms _ and had
instead expanded its program.
Iran's president and a former president accused the West on Friday of
"bullying" Tehran through ultimatums and threats of new sanctions.
Divisions had emerged within the Iranian leadership over President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's handling of the nuclear standoff following the
council's adoption of limited economic sanctions against Iran in
December.
Some Iranians believe Ahmadinejad has been too antagonistic toward the
U.S. and its allies. Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in
recent weeks has emerged as a high-level advocate of a more
conciliatory stance toward the West in the nuclear dispute.
But Rafsanjani told worshippers gathered for Friday prayers in Tehran,
the Iranian capital, that Western countries would fail to achieve
anything by pressuring Iran over its nuclear activities.
And, in northern Iran, Ahmadinejad told a crowd of thousands: "The
Iranian nation has resisted all bullies and corrupt powers and it will
fully defend all its rights," according to state television.
The U.N. nuclear agency's report set the stage for difficult
negotiations on new U.N. sanctions, with the United States, Britain
and France again likely to seek tougher measures than Russia and China
will accept. Senior diplomats from the five permanent Security Council
nations and Germany will meet on Monday in London to start work on a
new resolution to try to pressure Iran to suspend enrichment.
U.S. deputy ambassador Jackie Sanders told Friday's open meeting that,
"unfortunately, Iran has yet to ... make the strategic decision to
cooperate with the international community and end its pursuit of a
nuclear weapons capability," she said.
Britain's U.N. ambassador mentioned "our continuing concern at
developments in Iran and the failure of the government of Iran to meet
the obligations" to halt enrichment. And Israel's deputy U.N.
ambassador said the Iranian supply of weapons to Hezbollah fighters in
Lebanon violated the 2004 resolution.
The three countries were the only ones among 36 speakers in the debate
to mention Iran.
Danesh Yazdi, speaking last, said it was regrettable that "an ill-
intended and extensive campaign with political motivation has been at
work attempting to distort and fabricate the facts and realities about
Iran's peaceful nuclear program, as we have witnessed in today's
meeting through the baseless allegations made against my country by
the representatives of the United States, United Kingdom and Israeli
regime."
The Iranian envoy said it was unreasonable for countries that have
nuclear weapons to "threaten others with their massive arsenals and
aggressive policies, while crying wolf about others' peaceful nuclear
program."
_____
Associated Press Writer Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to
this report.
Cheney Defends Iraq War, Attacks Critics
By ROHAN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour ago....
SYDNEY, Australia - Vice President Dick Cheney, in a series of blunt
and sometimes biting statements during a visit to Asia, defended the
Iraq war, attacked administration critics at home and warned that the
U.S. would confront potential adversaries abroad.
His visit was meant to thank Australia and Japan for their support in
Iraq. But a series of public appearances and media interviews,
Cheney's tone was typically feisty.
Answering growing criticism in the U.S. and Australia, he defended the
Iraq war as a "remarkable achievement" in one speech, and dismissed
suggestions his influence in Washington is waning.
At a news conference Saturday, Cheney warned that "all options" are on
the table if Iran continues to defy U.N.-led efforts to end Tehran's
nuclear ambitions, leaving the door open to military action.
Cheney's support for the Iraq war _ he is considered one of the key
proponents of the 2003 invasion _ drew protesters into Sydney's
streets for two days.
But the crowds were small and the clashes brief, and Cheney enjoyed a
generally warm welcome, including lunch at Australian Prime Minister
John Howard's harborside mansion and a cruise past the Sydney Opera
House.
On Saturday, he held talks with Howard _ who at one point felt
compelled to defend his friendly relations with the White House.
In Japan, Cheney asserted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's opposition
to President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq would "validate the al-Qaida
strategy."
A furious Pelosi complained to the White House that Cheney was
impugning the patriotism of critics of the war. Cheney refused to back
down: "I said it and I meant it," he told ABC News. "I didn't question
her patriotism, I questioned her judgment."
He took a similarly uncompromising stand on Iran, criticizing its
defiance of a U.N. deadline for freezing its uranium enrichment
programs. While the White House seeks a peaceful resolution to the
problem, he said, he did not rule out military action.
Cheney was more diplomatic, but no less direct, on Friday when he
discussed North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons and China's rapid
modernization of its 2.3 million-strong military forces.
Noting that China _ an emerging economic power _ had hit a defunct
weather satellite with a missile last month, Cheney said that some of
the country's actions were at odds with its pledge to develop
peacefully.
In the same speech, though, he praised China for its help in
persuading North Korea to seal its main nuclear reactor in exchange
for oil. But Cheney added North Korea had "much to prove," namely that
it would honor the deal.
Michael McKinley, an expert in Australia-U.S. relations at the
Australian National University, said Cheney's association with an Iraq
policy that many see as a failure has made him unpopular, but it is
too soon to write off his influence.
Cheney is still a force in the White House, McKinley said, and "in the
area of foreign and defense policy, he is the power."
During Cheney's visit to Australia _ one of the United States'
staunchest allies in Iraq _ he said history would ultimately judge the
war a success, pointing to the end of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship
and Iraq's democratic elections. The U.S., he said, has put Iraq "well
on the road to establishing a viable democracy."
Cheney told ABC News that media speculation that he had lost influence
within the Bush administration was inaccurate, just as earlier
speculation that he was the all-powerful was wrong.
"I think people fall into the trap of focusing on that and talking
about it and reporters writing about it, but it rarely reflects
reality," he said. "So I don't worry about those stories."
Howard, who faces increasing pressure to begin withdrawing Australian
troops and did not attend Cheney's speech on Friday, rejected
suggestions the government was keeping a polite distance from the vice
president during the visit. National elections are due later this
year.
"It's never a political liability, ever, for the prime minister of
Australia to have a good relationship with the president and the vice
president of the United States," Howard said.
Cheney seemed comfortable knowing that not all Australians like him,
telling The Australian that not all the gestures directed as he
cruises around in his motorcade are friendly waves.
"Driving through Sydney is a lot like driving through New York City,"
Cheney said. "You get some waves, and then you get some other waves.
And that goes with living in a democracy. ... That's as it should be."
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