- Today, the London Telegraph reported that "British
officials gave warning yesterday that America's commander in Iraq will
declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government.
A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran's intervention
in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian militiary facilities,
according to a Whitehall assessment."
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- The neocon lacky Petraeus has had his script written
for him by Cheney, and Petraeus together with neocon warmonger Ryan Crocker,
the US governor of the Green Zone in Baghdad, will present Congress next
Tuesday and Wednesday with the lies, for which the road has been well paved
by neocon propagandists such as Kimberly Kagan, that "the US must
recognize that Iran is engaged in a full-up proxy war against it in Iraq."
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- Don't expect Congress to do anything except to egg on
the attack. On April 3 the International Herald Tribune reported that
senators and representatives have made millions of dollars from their investments
in defense companies totaling $196 million. Rep. Ike Skelton, the Democrat
chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is already on board with
the attack on Iran. The London Telegraph quotes Skelton: "Iran is
the bull in the china shop. In all of this, they seem to have links to
all of the Shi'ite groups, whether they be political or military."
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- All Skelton knows is what the war criminal Bush regime
tells him. If Iran really does have all these connections, then it behooves
Washington to cease threatening Iran and to make nice with Iran in order
to stabilize Iraq and extract the US from the nightmare.
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- Reporting from Tehran on April 4, Reuters quotes Mohsen
Hakim, whose father, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leads the Supreme Islamic Iraqi
Council, an ally of the Maliki US puppetgovernment in Iraq: "Tehran,
by using its positive influence on the Iraqi nation, paved the way for
the return of peace to Iraq and the new situation is the result of Iran's
efforts."
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- Instead of thanking Iran and working with Iran diplomatically
to restore stability to Iraq, the Bush regime intends to expand the nightmare
with a military attack on Iran. Ryan Crocker was quick to dispute Hakim's
report that Iran had used its influence to end the fighting in Basra.
Crocker alleged that Iran had started the fighting. The absurdity of Crocker's
claim is obvious as even the neocon US media reported that the fighting
in Basra was started by the US and Maliki in an effort to clear out the
Shi'ite al-Sadr militias. Most experts saw the attack on al-Sadr for what
it was: an effort to remove a potential threat to the US supply line from
Kuwait in the event of a US attack on Iran.
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- Crocker alleges that the rockets dropping on the Green
Zone during the Basra fighting were made in 2007 in Iran. As should be
obvious even to disengaged Americans, if Iran were to arm the Iraqi insurgency,
the insurgents would have modern weapons to counter US helicopter gunships
and heavy tanks. The insurgents have no such weapons. The neocon lie
that Iran is the cause of the Iraqi insurgency is just another Bush regime
lie like the lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and
connections to al Qaeda and the lie that the Taliban in Afghanistan attacked
the US.
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- The Bush regime will tell any lie and orchestrate any
event in order to "finish the job" in the Middle East.
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- "Finishing the job" means to destroy the ability
of Iraq, Iran, and Syria to provide support for the Palestinians and for
Hezbollah in southern Lebanon against Israeli aggression. With Iraq and
Iran in turmoil, Syria might simply give up and become another American
client state. With Iraq and Iran in turmoil, Israel can steal the rest
of the West Bank along with the water resources in southern Lebanon. That
is what "the war on terror" is really about.
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- The entire world knows this. Consequently, the US and
Israel are essentially isolated. The US can only count on the support
that it can bribe and pay for.
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- At the NATO-Russian summit in Bucharest, Romania, on
April 4, Russian President Putin said: "No one can seriously think
that Iran would dare attack the U.S. Instead of pushing Iran into a corner,
it would be far more sensible to think together how to help Iran become
more predictable and transparent."
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- Of course it would, but that is not what the warmonger
Bush regime wants.
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- Perhaps the British government has derailed the plot
to attack Iran by leaking in advance to the London Telegraph the disinformation
Cheney has prepared for Petraeus and Crocker to deliver to the complicit
US Congress next Tuesday and Wednesday. On the other hand, the US puppet
media is likely to bury the real story and to trumpet Petraeus claims that
Iran has, in effect, already declared war on the US by sending weapons
to kill US troops in Iraq.
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- By next Thursday we will know from how the Petraeus-Crocker
dog and pony show plays in the US Congress and media whether the Bush Regime
will commit yet another war crime by attacking Iran.
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- Paul Craig Roberts a former Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has
been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A
new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with
Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection
of law, is forthcoming from Random House in March, 2008.
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