Let's Stop This Insanity Before It Happens!!!!

"Today I received a message from a friend who has excellent connections in Washington and whose information has often been prescient. According to this report, as in 2002, the rollout will start after Labor Day, with a big kickoff on September 11. My friend had spoken to someone in one of the leading neo-conservative institutions. He summarized what he was told this way:

They [the source's institution] have "instructions" (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don't think they'll ever get majority support for this--they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is "plenty." "





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- Barnett R. Rubin

- http://icga.blogspot.com/2007/08/post-labor-day-product-rollout-war-with.html



To attack Iran would literally be an act of insanity. We will very likely lose our nation due to the consequences that will follow an attack on Iran if the Bush administration and its enablers for such an action, such as Senator Hillary Clinton, are not reined in concerning Iran.

Just consider the consequences: Oil as high as $200/bbl., our 150,000 troops facing an uprising of millions of Shiites in Iraq, a likely regional war in the Middle East, the collapse of the U.S. and world economies, protests and violence confrontations in the streets of America similar to what happened in the late 1960s-early 1970s, inflation perhaps going over 20%, unemployment perhaps as high as 25%, etc, etc., etc.

Let's nip this, yes, nip it in the bud!!!!

 

"In my view, air strikes on Iran are inevitable, unless grassroots America can arrange a backbone transplant for Congress.

The House needs to begin impeachment proceedings without delay. These, in turn, could possibly give our senior military leaders second thoughts about unleashing the dogs of wider war.

Rabies shots recommended: for this time those dogs can, and will, come back and bite us.

Yes, some of us have been saying that for many months. The deterioration of the U.S. position in Iraq; the perceived need for a scapegoat; the continuing deference given to perceived Israeli security concerns; and the fact that time is running out for the Bush/Cheney administration to end Iran's nuclear program together make a volatile mix."

- Ray McGovern

- www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=11531

 

I have no influence on the Iranian government. According to the U.S. constitution I am supposed to have some influence on the government of these United States.

I suggest that the rational people in these United States should use our influence to stop the insanity here and that the rational people in Iran should use their influence to stop the insanity there.

 

Fortunately, Vice President Cheney is not the majority of Americans. Unfortunately, Vice President Cheney apparently doesn't care what the majority of Americans want nor is he concerned about the impact of the Bush administration's policies on their lives, livelihood, and general well-being.

 

I believe he does.

 

I agree that Ahmadinejad has made insane statements.

But what has the Iranian government done wrong concerning the nuclear issue? It has abided by the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

 

Don't confuse the stupid statements by Ahmadinejad, who has no real power attached to his office, with those who actually run the Iranian government. The Iranian government has been a whole better concerning remaining open on its nuclear research than the conservative media and the Bush administration would have you believe.

 

Bombing Iran won't bring that scenario about.

 

www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070828-2.html