Published in Time Magazine
Prelude to an Attack on Iran
By Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle
East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No
Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1654188,00.html
excerpt
Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of
two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a
strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on
the IRGC, maybe within the next six months.
<snip>
Strengthening the Administration's case for a strike on Iran, there's
a belief among neo-cons that the IRGC is the one obstacle to a
democratic and friendly Iran. They believe that if we were to get rid
of the IRGC, the clerics would fall, and our thirty-years war with
Iran over. It's another neo-con delusion, but still it informs White
House thinking.
And what do we do if just the opposite happens - a strike on Iran
unifies Iranians behind the regime? An Administration official told me
it's not even a consideration. "IRGC IED's are a casus belli for this
Administration. There will be an attack on Iran."
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| User: "The Last 1946 Days....HOOROO !" |
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23 Aug 2007 11:21:49 PM |
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Well Johno me boy, that's what I said a coupla months ago !!!....
The dirty little buggers are desperately looking for a 'causus belli',
a catalyst or Red Flag Op to happen as a perfect excuse to attack Iran
(& possibly Syria as well !!!)
Yeppers, yes siree yes indeedy deedy deedily do, John !! -- looks
like the Fat Lady iz already clearing her throat & she's about to hit
the high note, shatter the glass & ***** all over those poor musicians
in the frickin' orchestra pit -- & the poop-encrusted fan iz about to
be WHACKED **BIG TIME** & short-circuit !!!!
Yeppers, we're all up the proverbial Schei=DFenhausen Sh!t Creek without
a proverbial frickin' paddle !!!!
Oh well, peoplez, better start dustin' off those ol' Nuclear Fallout
Shelterz & stock up on plenty of food & water !!!!!
Remember this thread from July of this year:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.prophecies.nostradamus/browse_frm/thread=
/d329796629c8080b/63e4efca474f4808?lnk=3Dgst&q=3Dcausus+belli&rnum=3D1#63e4=
efca474f4808
Well, Gary, they're no doubt desperately looking for a 'causus belli'
to attack Iran & Syria.
One needs to look only at what happened six years ago -- & history
repeats itself !!!
2007 iz a mirror year to 2001.
Hate to say it for the ramifications of a war with Iran & Syria
equates to World War III + Greatest Depression all rolled into one !
2001 > 6 years > 2007 (both Tuesdays)
The world iz TOTALLY FRICKED beyond all repair, Gazza !!
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
On Aug 24, 1:13 pm, John Lemke <jfle...@locallink.net> wrote:
Published in Time Magazine
Prelude to an Attack on Iran
By Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle
East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No
Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1654188,00.html
excerpt
Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of
two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a
strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on
the IRGC, maybe within the next six months.
<snip>
Strengthening the Administration's case for a strike on Iran, there's
a belief among neo-cons that the IRGC is the one obstacle to a
democratic and friendly Iran. They believe that if we were to get rid
of the IRGC, the clerics would fall, and our thirty-years war with
Iran over. It's another neo-con delusion, but still it informs White
House thinking.
And what do we do if just the opposite happens - a strike on Iran
unifies Iranians behind the regime? An Administration official told me
it's not even a consideration. "IRGC IED's are a casus belli for this
Administration. There will be an attack on Iran."
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25 Aug 2007 09:59:23 AM |
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On Aug 24, 12:21 am, "The Last 1946 Days....HOOROO !"
<stargatedecember2...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Well Johno me boy, that's what I said a coupla months ago !!!....
Yup, and Robert Baer is saying it now too.
These assholes are planning on getting us into a protracted war over
control of the Middleast. They're going to do their damnedest to make
it happen and I don't think Hillary and her crew are going to stand in
the way of it. If she wins it'll be the same old same old. We'll be
there for years trying to make this vampire foreign policy stick.
I think it's entirely possible that if Obama stays convinced we need
to withdraw and looks as tho he'd win the general election he won't
live long enough to win the nomination.
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| User: "The Last 1940 Days....HOOROO !" |
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26 Aug 2007 12:40:14 AM |
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http://en.rian.ru/world/20070720/69340886.html
White House preparing to stage new September 11 - Reagan official
13:58 | 20/ 07/ 2007
WASHINGTON, July 20 (RIA Novosti) - A former Reagan official has
issued a public warning that the Bush administration is preparing to
orchestrate a staged terrorist attack in the United States, transform
the country into a dictatorship and launch a war with Iran within a
year.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
blasted Thursday a new Executive Order, released July 17, allowing the
White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq
policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise
control in the country.
Roberts, who spoke on the Thom Hartmann radio program, said: "When
Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order], there's
no check to it. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man
rule."
"The American people don't really understand the danger that they
face," Roberts said, adding that the so-called neoconservatives
intended to use a renewal of the fight against terrorism to rally the
American people around the fading Republican Party.
Old-line Republicans like Roberts have become increasingly
disenchanted with the neoconservative politics of the Bush
administration, which they see as a betrayal of fundamental
conservative values.
According to a July 9-11 survey by Ipsos, an international public
opinion research company, President Bush and the Republicans can claim
a mere 31 percent approval rating for their handling of the Iraq war
and 38 percent for their foreign policy in general, including
terrorism.
"The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican
propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of
events," he said. "You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda is
not going to do it, it is going to be orchestrated."
Roberts suggested that in the absence of a massive popular outcry,
only the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military could put
constraints on Bush's current drive for a fully-fledged dictatorship.
"They may have had enough. They may not go along with it," he said.
The radio interview was a follow-up to Robert's latest column, in
which he warned that "unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and
Cheney, a year from now the U.S. could be a dictatorial police state
at war with Iran."
Roberts, who has been dubbed the "Father of Reaganomics" and has
recently gained popularity for his strong opposition to the Bush
administration and the Iraq War, regularly contributes articles to
Creators Syndicate, an independent distributor of comic strips and
syndicated columns for daily newspapers.
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On Aug 26, 12:59 am, John Lemke <jfle...@locallink.net> wrote:
On Aug 24, 12:21 am, "The Last 1946 Days....HOOROO !"
<stargatedecember2...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Well Johno me boy, that's what I said a coupla months ago !!!....
Yup, and Robert Baer is saying it now too.
These assholes are planning on getting us into a protracted war over
control of the Middleast. They're going to do their damnedest to make
it happen and I don't think Hillary and her crew are going to stand in
the way of it. If she wins it'll be the same old same old. We'll be
there for years trying to make this vampire foreign policy stick.
I think it's entirely possible that if Obama stays convinced we need
to withdraw and looks as tho he'd win the general election he won't
live long enough to win the nomination.
.
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