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LIEBERMAN SETS STAGE FOR MILITARY STRIKE ON IRAN
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Senator Joseph Lieberman with Israeli Prime Minister Olmert
"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq ~ And to me, that would include a strike over the border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers ": Joseph Lieberman / Face The Nation
When we add that dramatic announcement to the recent firing of General Pace as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ~ who was never keen on broadening the Iraq war to include Iran ~ and the appointment of the zealous hawk and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Mullen as his replacement ~ three things become obvious:
1. The chickenhawks, led by Cheney, are ready to strike sooner rather than later ~ probably within six months. Unable to face the failure of their Iraq misadventure ~ the Cheney/Bush administration is ready to not only blame and demonize Iran but to eventually justify an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
2. Admiral Mullen is a true neocon believer, unlike Pace, and was quoted as such in an address earlier this month to naval personnel: http://starbulletin.com/... "The enemy now is basically evil and fundamentally hates everything we are -- the democratic principles for which we stand ... This war is going to go on for a long time. It's a generational war."
3. This strike will eventually include Israel who will preemptively strike Iran's nuclear facilities thus drawing Syria into the fray.
Here's my doomsday scenario ~ Claiming that iran is killing American soldiers by training insurgents ( Lieberman has already announced this line of spin ) the United states will strike those border bases in Iran and Iran will retaliate throughout the gulf but particularly in Iraq. Israel will then find a premise to preemptively strike Iran's nuclear facilities and we are off to the races . The strait of hormuz will close ( Iran Readies Plan to Close Strait of Hormuz ), oil prices will go to $100.00 a barrel, the stock market will quickly nosedive well below its current fragile support levels and Bush will declare a national emergency ~ legally stopping our democratic process in its tracks. ( please remember, recent legislation gives Bush the right to self declare a national emergency and literally take over the country as well as the national guard )
If this sounds like Germany in the 1930's ~ your absolutely right and the American people are just as blinded by fear having already given Bush, as Hitler at that time, autocratic power at his own bidding .
Congress will cave in because they are beholden to Israel and AIPAC and the American people will be powerless to change this ~ unless we literally take to the streets and force Congress to impeach Cheney and Bush.
Timetable: Think October, 2007 ~ that's when Mullin begins his term.
Allen L Roland
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
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