NO CHOICE LATINO EITHER ATTACK IRAN OR TO BE NUKED!

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17204.htm
Attacking Iran: What's In It For Bush?

By Paul Craig Roberts

01/17/07

Initially,
the Bush Regime denied that Bush's
surge speech on January 10 signaled
that the Regime intends to attack Iran.

Now a number of Regime officials have
made it clear that Iran, not Iraq,
is the focus of the Regime's war
planning.

Robert Gates,
the new Defense Secretary and
member of the Iraq Study Group,

was supposedly brought into the
Pentagon to de-escalate the war.

Gates now says that Iran is the
target of US military moves in
the Persian Gulf

Suddenly the media is full of
Bush Regime propagandistic
assertions designed to make
the American public believe
that Iran is the enemy that
is fighting against our
troops in Iraq.

To facilitate this deception,
the Bush Regime staged a propaganda
event by invading an Iranian government
liaison office in Northern Iraq,

kidnapping the Iranian officials
and declaring them to be involved
in plans to kill US troops.

The Bush Regime's latest big lie is
that the US is not winning in Iraq
because of Iran.

"The Iranians are acting
in a very negative way,"
alleges the "moderate" Gates.

Iraq,
the target for the
surge in US troop levels,
has dimmed in importance.

In the few days since Bush's
"surge" speech, Bush, Cheney,
Gates, Rice, and national
security advisor Hadley have
said far more about Iran than
about Iraq.

In 2003,
the same technique was used by the
Bush Regime to shift the public's
attention from Osama bin Laden to
Saddam Hussein.

The technique succeeded to the
extent that even today a significant
percentage of Americans believe that
Saddam Hussein was responsible for
the 9/11 attacks.

Clearly, the Bush Regime expects
that it can again deceive the
American public.

There is no doubt that Iran will be attacked.

The Israeli government and the
neoconservatives have been demanding it.

The question is:

why is Bush,
who is confronted with failure in Iraq,
willing to compound his problems by
attacking a more powerful Muslim
state that the US has no prospect
of being able to occupy?

A former member of the National
Security Council gave me a possible answer.

Bush can bury his defeat in
Iraq with a "victory" in Iran.

Here is the victory scenario:

Bush and Cheney will claim that
their air attack on Iran succeeded
in destroying Iran's (non-existent)
nuclear weapons program.

The victory claimed by the Bush
Regime and the propagandistic US
media will

"make America safe from nuclear attack."

This will restore Bush's popularity
and move the US back to a 50-50 political
split in time for Karl Rove to steal the
2008 election with the fraudulent
electronic voting machines built
and programmed by Republican operatives.

The former national security official
believes that Bush will be able to
claim victory over Iran,

because Iran will avoid
responding militarily.

Iran will not use its Russian
missiles to sink our aircraft
carriers,

to shut down oil facilities
throughout the Middle East,

or to destroy US headquarters
in the "green zone" in Baghdad.

Instead,
Iran will adopt the posture of
another Muslim victim of US/
Israeli aggression and let the
anger seep throughout the Muslim
world until no pro-US government
is safe in the Middle East.

Bush needs a short-run victory,
and Iran will let him have it in
order to gain the long-run victory.

The consequences for the US, Israel,
and the US puppet regimes in the
Middle East will be catastrophic,
but they will not occur in the short-run.

This explanation solves the
dilemma of why Bush would get
deeper into the quagmire for
the sake of the Israel Lobby.

A US attack on Iran allows Bush
both to satisfy the powerful
Israel Lobby and to claim to
have destroyed Iran's
(non-existent) weapons
of mass destruction.

Some patriotic Americans,
who believe it is still possible
to save America from war and
a police state,

see cause for hope in the
upcoming trial of "Scooter" Libby,

the former chief operative of VP Cheney.

Libby is accused of lying about
his role in leaking a covert CIA
agent's name to the press in an
effort to discredit damaging
evidence that Bush had lied
about Iraq possessing WMD.

The patriots believe that Libby's
trial will damage the Bush Regime and,
thereby, reduce the Regime's danger
to freedom and democracy in America.

At this delicate point in time,
the Bush Regime would not allow
the Libby trial to go forward
unless the Regime had arranged
with the media shills it uses
to control the explanation of
the news (with insider leaks)
to testify in a manner that
lets Libby off the hook.

If Libby is exonerated,
expect Cheney and the neocon
nazis to attack Joe Wilson as
a terrorist sympathizer who
tried to discredit Bush's
invasion of Iraq and war on terror.

The attack on Wilson will lead
into an all-out-assault on the
antiwar movement.

If the Regime overcomes its
defeat in Iraq with a "victory"
in Iran,

"you are with us or against us"
will take on new life,

and we will find out who
are those intended for the
Halliburton-built detention
camps constructed in the US
at great cost with our tax dollars.