It's both fascinating and dismaying watching the manufactured 'crisis' over
Iran reach new intensity each week.
Iran poses no real military threat to anyone, but listening to the Bush
Administration or the US media one would think that Tehran was about to
unleash a nuclear holocaust on the world.
What we are seeing is a rerun of the administration's massive propaganda
offensive that led to the invasion of Iraq. There is also no doubt that the
Bush Administration has been planning a major air war against Iran.
NBC: Iranian Ironies ... Michael Schwartz on Iranian Ironies... matter of the Iranian nuclear program may even go to the UN Security Council ... The geopolitical fundamentalists of the Bush administration have been ... fundamentalists of Iran at least since the President, ... (rec.music.artists.springsteen)
(NBC) The new Iran-Contra mess ... Despite the fact that the Bush administration is officially at war with Sunni extremism in Iraq, despite its support for the largely Shi'ite government, allied to Iran, that it has brought to power in Iraq, and despite its dislike for the Sunni-Shi'ite civil war in that country, some of its top officials may be covertly encouraging a far greater Sunni-Shi'ite rift in the region. ... Undoubtedly, the lack of sourcing makes it harder for other reporters to follow up, though when it comes to papers like the Washington Post and the New York Times, you would think that they might have Washington sources of their own to query on Hersh's claims. ... In April of 2006 in "The Iran Plans," he reported that the Bush administration was eager to put the "nuclear option" on the table in any future air assault on Iranian nuclear facilities. ... (rec.music.artists.springsteen)
On US covert activity against Iran ...Iran is vulnerable to industrial sabotage because it is prohibited ...Lazarus is reminded by the force behind resurrection concerning this ... we must remind ourselves that there is no proof tht Iran ... (soc.culture.iranian)
Re: Bush planning nuclear attacks? ... > administration is moving toward initiating two more wars, one with Iran... the Bush administration is planning to make ... > the US the first country in history to initiate war with nuclear... As both Congress and the American public have failed to hold ... (soc.culture.african.american)
OT - Iran: Ratcheting It Up ...Bush administration consolidates plans for war against Iran... meddling in Iraq-arming and training militants-would lead to cross ... (alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers)
