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On Mar 31, 6:10 pm, tsimo...@theworld.com wrote:
> http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03312008.html
>
> March 31, 2008
>
> Iran in the Crosshairs - A Third American War in the Making?
>
> By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
>
> The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United
> Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran.
>
> If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there
> were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third
> act of naked aggression--a third war crime under the Nuremberg
> standard--by the Bush Regime could be prevented.
>
> On March 30, the Russian News & Information Agency, Novosti, cited "a
> high-ranking security source: "The latest military intelligence data point
> to heightened US military preparations for both an air and ground
> operation against Iran."
>
> According to Novosti, Russian Colonel General Leonid Ivashov said "that
> the Pentagon is planning to deliver a massive air strike on Iran's
> military infrastructure in the near future."
>
> The chief of Russia's general staff, Yuri Baluyevsky, said last November
> that Russia was beefing up its military in response to US aggression, but
> that the Russian military is not "obliged to defend the world from the
> evil Americans."
>
> On March 29, OpEdNews cited a report by the Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz,
> which was picked up by the German news service, DPA. The Saudi newspaper
> reported on March 22, the day following Cheney's visit with the kingdom's
> rulers, that the Saudi Shura Council is preparing "national plans to deal
> with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the
> kingdom following experts' warnings of possible attacks on Iran's Bushehr
> nuclear reactors."
>
> And Admiral William "there will be no attack on Iran on my watch" Fallon
> has been removed as US chief of Central Command, thus clearing the way for
> Cheney's planned attack on Iran.
>
> The Iranians don't seem to believe it, despite the dispatch of US nuclear
> submarines and another aircraft carrier attack group to the Persian Gulf.
> To counter any Iranian missiles launched in response to an attack, the US
> is deploying anti-missile defenses to protect US bases and Saudi oil
> fields.
>
> Two massive failures by the American media, the Democratic Party, and the
> American people have paved the way for Cheney's long planned attack on
> Iran. One failure is the lack of skepticism about the US government's
> explanation of 9/11. The other failure is the Democrats' refusal to begin
> impeachment proceedings against President Bush for lying to the Congress,
> the American people, and the world and launching an invasion of Iraq based
> on deception and fabricated evidence.
>
> If an American president can start a war exactly as Adolf Hitler did with
> pure lies and not be held accountable, he can get away with anything. And
> Bush and his evil regime have.
>
> Hitler launched World War II with his invasion of Poland after staging a
> "Polish attack" on a German radio station. On the night of August 31,
> 1939, a group of Nazis disguised in Polish uniforms seized a radio station
> in Germany. Hitler announced that "last night Polish troops crossed the
> frontier and attacked Germany," a claim no more true than the Bush
> Regime's claim that "Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction."
> Hitler's lie failed, because his invasion of Poland, which began the next
> day allegedly in reprisal for the Polish attack, had obviously been
> planned for many months.
>
> Iran is a beautiful and developed country. It is an ancient civilization.
> It has attacked no one. Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear
> Non-proliferation Treaty. Iran is permitted by the treaty to have a
> nuclear energy program. The Bush Regime's case against Iran is based on
> the Bush Regime's desire to deny Iran its rights under the treaty.
>
> The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have repeatedly reported
> that they have found no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.
> Despite all the disinformation from US Gen. Petraeus and other Bush Regime
> military lackeys, Iran is not arming the Iraqis who are resisting the
> American occupation.
>
> If Iran were arming insurgents, the insurgents would have two weapons that
> would neutralize the US advantage in the Iraqi conflict: missiles to knock
> down US helicopter gunships and rocket-propelled grenades that knock out
> American tanks. The insurgents do not have these weapons and must
> construct clumsy anti-tank weapons out of artillery shells. The insurgents
> are helpless against US air power and cannot mass forces to take on the
> American troops.
>
> Indiscriminate American violence has reduced Iraq to rubble. The civilian
> infrastructure is essentially destroyed--electricity, water and sewer
> systems, medical care and schools. Depleted uranium is everywhere
> poisoning everyone, including US troops. There is no economy, and half or
> more of Iraqis are unemployed. Literally no Iraqi family has escaped an
> injury or a death as a consequence of the US invasion. Millions of Iraqis
> have become displaced persons. A developed country with a professional
> middle class has been destroyed because of lies told by the President and
> Vice President of the US. The Bush Regime's lies are echoed by a
> neoconservative media, and have gone unchallenged by the opposition party
> and an indifferent American public.
>
> In Afghanistan, death and destruction rains on even the smallest village
> from the air. America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are wars against the
> civilian populations.
>
> Just as the world could not believe Hitler's next horror and thus was
> always unprepared, the Iranians despite all the evidence cannot believe
> that even the Great Satan would gratuitously attack Iran based on nothing
> but lies about non-existent nuclear weapons.
>
> Iran's only chance would be to strike before the US delivers the first
> blow. Instead of using its missiles to take out the Saudi oil fields and
> to sink the US aircraft carriers, instead of closing the Strait of Hormuz,
> instead of arming the Iraqi Shi'ites and moving them to insurgency, Iran
> is perched like a sitting duck in denial even as the US and its Iraqi
> puppet Maliki move to eliminate Al Sadr's Iraqi Shi'ite militia in order
> to avoid supply disruptions and a Shi'ite rebellion in Iraq when the US
> attack on Iran comes.
>
> It is important to emphasize that Iran is making no moves toward war.
> Having tamed, blackmailed, and purchased Congress, the US media, and US
> allies and puppets, Cheney might delight in the arrogance with which he
> can now attack Iran free of any restraint or fabricated provocation. On
> the other hand, he might cover himself by orchestrating an "Iranian
> provocation" to justify his attack as a response. But like Hitler's
> planned attack against Poland, Cheney's attack on Iran has long been in
> the works.
>
> On March 29 the Associated Press reported that Libyan leader Moammar
> Gadhafi "poured contempt on fellow Arab leaders" at the Arab summit that
> day. Gadhafi told the Arab "leaders," many of whom are on the American
> payroll, that their American masters would turn on them all, just as
> America turned on Saddam Hussein after using him to fight a proxy war
> against Iran.
>
> Saddam had once been an ally of Washington, Gadhafi reminded the Arabs,
> "but they sold him out." Gadhafi told the American puppets, "Your turn is
> next."
>
> Gadhafi asked, "Where is the Arabs' dignity, their future, their very
> existence?" If Arabs remain disunited, he predicted, "they will turn
> themselves into protectorates. They will be marginalized and turn into
> garbage dumps."
>
> Indeed, it is this disunity that permits the US to bomb and murder at will
> in the Middle East.
>
> Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
> administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal
> editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor
> of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at:
> PaulCraigRobe...@yahoo.com
> http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03312008.html
>
> March 31, 2008
>
> Iran in the Crosshairs - A Third American War in the Making?
>
> By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
>
> The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United
> Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran.
>
> If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there
> were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third
> act of naked aggression--a third war crime under the Nuremberg
> standard--by the Bush Regime could be prevented.
>
> On March 30, the Russian News & Information Agency, Novosti, cited "a
> high-ranking security source: "The latest military intelligence data point
> to heightened US military preparations for both an air and ground
> operation against Iran."
>
> According to Novosti, Russian Colonel General Leonid Ivashov said "that
> the Pentagon is planning to deliver a massive air strike on Iran's
> military infrastructure in the near future."
>
> The chief of Russia's general staff, Yuri Baluyevsky, said last November
> that Russia was beefing up its military in response to US aggression, but
> that the Russian military is not "obliged to defend the world from the
> evil Americans."
>
> On March 29, OpEdNews cited a report by the Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz,
> which was picked up by the German news service, DPA. The Saudi newspaper
> reported on March 22, the day following Cheney's visit with the kingdom's
> rulers, that the Saudi Shura Council is preparing "national plans to deal
> with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the
> kingdom following experts' warnings of possible attacks on Iran's Bushehr
> nuclear reactors."
>
> And Admiral William "there will be no attack on Iran on my watch" Fallon
> has been removed as US chief of Central Command, thus clearing the way for
> Cheney's planned attack on Iran.
>
> The Iranians don't seem to believe it, despite the dispatch of US nuclear
> submarines and another aircraft carrier attack group to the Persian Gulf.
> To counter any Iranian missiles launched in response to an attack, the US
> is deploying anti-missile defenses to protect US bases and Saudi oil
> fields.
>
> Two massive failures by the American media, the Democratic Party, and the
> American people have paved the way for Cheney's long planned attack on
> Iran. One failure is the lack of skepticism about the US government's
> explanation of 9/11. The other failure is the Democrats' refusal to begin
> impeachment proceedings against President Bush for lying to the Congress,
> the American people, and the world and launching an invasion of Iraq based
> on deception and fabricated evidence.
>
> If an American president can start a war exactly as Adolf Hitler did with
> pure lies and not be held accountable, he can get away with anything. And
> Bush and his evil regime have.
>
> Hitler launched World War II with his invasion of Poland after staging a
> "Polish attack" on a German radio station. On the night of August 31,
> 1939, a group of Nazis disguised in Polish uniforms seized a radio station
> in Germany. Hitler announced that "last night Polish troops crossed the
> frontier and attacked Germany," a claim no more true than the Bush
> Regime's claim that "Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction."
> Hitler's lie failed, because his invasion of Poland, which began the next
> day allegedly in reprisal for the Polish attack, had obviously been
> planned for many months.
>
> Iran is a beautiful and developed country. It is an ancient civilization.
> It has attacked no one. Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear
> Non-proliferation Treaty. Iran is permitted by the treaty to have a
> nuclear energy program. The Bush Regime's case against Iran is based on
> the Bush Regime's desire to deny Iran its rights under the treaty.
>
> The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have repeatedly reported
> that they have found no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.
> Despite all the disinformation from US Gen. Petraeus and other Bush Regime
> military lackeys, Iran is not arming the Iraqis who are resisting the
> American occupation.
>
> If Iran were arming insurgents, the insurgents would have two weapons that
> would neutralize the US advantage in the Iraqi conflict: missiles to knock
> down US helicopter gunships and rocket-propelled grenades that knock out
> American tanks. The insurgents do not have these weapons and must
> construct clumsy anti-tank weapons out of artillery shells. The insurgents
> are helpless against US air power and cannot mass forces to take on the
> American troops.
>
> Indiscriminate American violence has reduced Iraq to rubble. The civilian
> infrastructure is essentially destroyed--electricity, water and sewer
> systems, medical care and schools. Depleted uranium is everywhere
> poisoning everyone, including US troops. There is no economy, and half or
> more of Iraqis are unemployed. Literally no Iraqi family has escaped an
> injury or a death as a consequence of the US invasion. Millions of Iraqis
> have become displaced persons. A developed country with a professional
> middle class has been destroyed because of lies told by the President and
> Vice President of the US. The Bush Regime's lies are echoed by a
> neoconservative media, and have gone unchallenged by the opposition party
> and an indifferent American public.
>
> In Afghanistan, death and destruction rains on even the smallest village
> from the air. America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are wars against the
> civilian populations.
>
> Just as the world could not believe Hitler's next horror and thus was
> always unprepared, the Iranians despite all the evidence cannot believe
> that even the Great Satan would gratuitously attack Iran based on nothing
> but lies about non-existent nuclear weapons.
>
> Iran's only chance would be to strike before the US delivers the first
> blow. Instead of using its missiles to take out the Saudi oil fields and
> to sink the US aircraft carriers, instead of closing the Strait of Hormuz,
> instead of arming the Iraqi Shi'ites and moving them to insurgency, Iran
> is perched like a sitting duck in denial even as the US and its Iraqi
> puppet Maliki move to eliminate Al Sadr's Iraqi Shi'ite militia in order
> to avoid supply disruptions and a Shi'ite rebellion in Iraq when the US
> attack on Iran comes.
>
> It is important to emphasize that Iran is making no moves toward war.
> Having tamed, blackmailed, and purchased Congress, the US media, and US
> allies and puppets, Cheney might delight in the arrogance with which he
> can now attack Iran free of any restraint or fabricated provocation. On
> the other hand, he might cover himself by orchestrating an "Iranian
> provocation" to justify his attack as a response. But like Hitler's
> planned attack against Poland, Cheney's attack on Iran has long been in
> the works.
>
> On March 29 the Associated Press reported that Libyan leader Moammar
> Gadhafi "poured contempt on fellow Arab leaders" at the Arab summit that
> day. Gadhafi told the Arab "leaders," many of whom are on the American
> payroll, that their American masters would turn on them all, just as
> America turned on Saddam Hussein after using him to fight a proxy war
> against Iran.
>
> Saddam had once been an ally of Washington, Gadhafi reminded the Arabs,
> "but they sold him out." Gadhafi told the American puppets, "Your turn is
> next."
>
> Gadhafi asked, "Where is the Arabs' dignity, their future, their very
> existence?" If Arabs remain disunited, he predicted, "they will turn
> themselves into protectorates. They will be marginalized and turn into
> garbage dumps."
>
> Indeed, it is this disunity that permits the US to bomb and murder at will
> in the Middle East.
>
> Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
> administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal
> editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor
> of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at:
> PaulCraigRobe...@yahoo.com
PLEASE LOOK AT THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE THAT
ROBERTS IS REFERRING TO REGARDING:
"THE LATEST RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE..."
ROBERTS IS USING AN ARTICLE DATED FROM MARCH 30, 2007!!!
NOT THE LATEST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE!!!!
The ORIGINAL ARTICLE can be found at:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070327/62697703.html
The Original Article Appeared in "RIA NOVOSTI" (Russian News and
Information Agency)
Notice the MASTHEAD runs the Current Date???
Now look at the DATE of the ARTICLE!!!
(27/03/2007)
S A N C H E Z
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