The Looming War With Iran

[TalkingDog]

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Article.aspx?id=252675

Watching the Sunday talk shows on American TV, the experts were all of the opinion that neither the US nor Israel will embark on attacking the Iranian nuclear facilities in 2012. I tend to agree. Neither the US nor Israel will initiate an attack on Iran. Still, I believe that these experts were off by a million miles.

Iran, just like Nazi Germany in the 1940s, will take the initiative and “help” the US president and the American public make up their mind by making the first move, by attacking a US aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.

The Iranian attack on an American military vessel will serve as a justification and a pretext for a retaliatory move by the US military against the Iranian regime. The target would not be Iran’s nuclear facilities. The US would retaliate by attacking Iran’s navy, their military installations, missile silos, airfields. The US would target Iran’s ability to retaliate, to close down the Strait of Hormuz. The US would then follow by targeting the regime itself.

Elimination of Iran’s nuclear facilities? Yes. This part would turn out to be the final act, the grand finale. It might have been the major target, had the US initiated the attack. However, under this “Pearl Harbor” scenario, in which Iran had launched a “surprise” attack on the US navy, the US would have the perfect rationalization to finish them off, to put an end to this ugly game.

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sound a little false flag/conspiracy theory, but stranger things have happened. I'll just leave it with this quote:

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." General Smedley Butler

[teddy51]

1. Sorry, but I don't think Iran is crazy enough to attack the US. They are smart enough

to know what would result from such an attack.

[Bruce Wayne]

2. Obviously. That's why the OP is fantasizing about false flag events.

You know, just like Dubya and the Illuminati planned out 9/11 from their Bilderberg cabin between orgies.

[teddy51]

4. My thoughts are that Iran already has the Nuke, but may not have the ability to

launch it yet.

[Bruce Wayne]

5. Most experts say they don't.

The IAEA monitors are pretty good at tracking materials. And with Mossad aggressively wiping out Iranian nuclear physicists (five assassinated in the last year) it's doubtful their top people are willing to get involved in the project.

[JackRiddler]

7. Yes, but someone at the Jerusalem Post is crazy enough

to engage in the propaganda preparation for war.

If any kind of "incident" is presented to us, what really happened will never be unravelled to any historian's satisfaction. (You will see many people even on this board salute whatever official story is presented and accuse those who oppose the war of supporting Ahmedinejad. As happened with the war on Iraq.)

Given the right pretext, US and/or Israel can attack and claim Iran started hostilities. This article is paving the way for blaming any war on Iran - as if they have any reason ever to start a war! All they have to do is wait. With every year, US influence in the region will decline and theirs will continue to rise. Iran is already the winner of the American war on Iraq.

[DeathToTheOil]

6. Iran will not Attack Palestine

And you need not go to the Jerusalem Post to find neocon chickenhawks. WaPo, NYT, TWS, WSJ and TNR have a honeybunch of 'em!