Mohtalim

I'm just going to let this topic sit here for a while ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... ines-world

Kerry Opponent Taking Aim at New Target: Iran

Swift Boat author wants to prepare the public for what he sees as a likely war with the nation.

By Sonni Efron, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — Jerome R. Corsi, a leader of the Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth campaign against former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry, is hard at work on his next political project: preparing American public opinion for what he sees as a likely war with Iran.

"The world cannot tolerate the potential that these mad mullahs would have a deliverable nuclear weapon, even one, secretly developed," Corsi said in a recent interview. "They might just launch on Tel Aviv. The moment the world intelligence community becomes convinced that could happen, either the U.S. alone or the U.S. plus Israel or Israel alone will seriously contemplate a preemptive strike, and I'd be in favor of it."

I am not too surprised, fortunately Americans at large are not ready for another war. Iraq was a easy sale, Americans are still hungry for blood after 9/11 and Afghan wasn't much of a fight. Now americans have realize how horrible wars can be and they are not so willing to jump into a war. Especially the possibility of draft.

Seymour Hersh spells out the neoconservatives' unambiguous desire and intent to go to war with Iran:

http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact

For anybody who is still uncertain whether we are going to war with Iran you should read the following from Bush's inaugration address and ask yourself what it means:

“We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion. The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands,” he will say, according to prepared remarks carried by Associated Press. “The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... ory/Front/[/i]

also worth noting:

Khatami: Iran Prepared to Defend Itself

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/s ... 75,00.html

Rice criticizes Iran on first trip abroad

Iran's approach to human rights and its treatment of its own citizens is loathsome, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. While saying Iranians deserve better leaders than "unelected mullahs," America's new chief diplomat stopped short of demanding their ouster.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/ ... &slug=Rice

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/inter ... ce.html?hp

Rice Says U.S. Attack on Iran 'Not on the Agenda'

LONDON, Feb. 4 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today that an attack on Iran by the United States "is simply not on the agenda," despite Iran's "abysmal human rights record" and suspicion that it harbors ambitions to produce nuclear weapons.

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"We believe particularly in regard to the nuclear issue that while no one ever asks the American president to take all his options, any of his options, off the table, that there are plenty of diplomatic means at our disposal to get the Iranians to finally live up to their international obligations."

Please compare to:


http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/05/23/g ... on.terror/

Bush: 'No war plans on my desk' for Iraq

BERLIN, Germany (CNN) - "I have no war plans on my desk," Bush said at a Berlin news conference during the first stop of his European tour. "We've got to use all means at our disposal to deal with Saddam Hussein."

See, this is why Iraq war was such a bad idea. Now Bushies are becoming 'Boys who cries wolf' The rest of the world is not taking us seriously anymore.