Bush administration wants a nuclear strike on Iran

[pberq]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_thepen_060721_a_tale_of_two_resolu.htm

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The Bush administration, who is green lighting Israel's every action, is manipulating public opinion at home to escalate this into a nuclear first strike on Iran, to try to regain the dominance lost in Iraq.

Until you understand this nothing else will make sense.

And in this they have the willing cooperation of Hezbollah and their supporters, who believe they will win the whole game if we do so, and they have our misadventure in Iraq to give them confidence. . .

[Turbineguy]

1. Bush's

Afghan and Iraq strategy have been such a success....

[Metta]

2. Pulling tragedy and historical condemnation out of defeat.

If they use nukes, they'll never win another election.

[robertarctor]

3. Who worries about election results in a dictatorship?

They'll just declare martial law and round up the dissidents.

[pberq]

5. Exactly - by 2008 things could easily get to that point

[Metta]

6. Exactly. One of the intuitives in another group said

she doesn't see * finishing his term.

[Stargazer99]

7. Please, please tell me your intuitive is right!

I keep waiting for the majority of the American people to get their head out of their *ss.

[Metta]

8. I wish I could say yes but I don't have that insight to either

confirm or deny her's. I know there are many people who wish it were so.

[pberq]

4. Parllels with start of WWI

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_thepen_060721_a_tale_of_two_resolu.htm

. . .In 1914, a relatively obscure member of the Austro-Hungarian royal family was assassinated by a bunch of bumbling Serbian extremists when, after the plot had already failed, one of them was given by fate the opportunity of an easy, close up shot. Weapons had been provided to them by a secret society calling itself Black Hand, some of whose members were part of the Serbian government.

In response the Austro-Hungarian government delivered to the Serbia government an ultimatum, described by british Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey as "the most formidable document that was ever addressed from one state to another". The ultimatum was written to be unacceptable on its face, to serve merely as a pretext for war, threatening invasion and collective punishment on Serbia. And even though Serbia AGREED to 9 of the 10 demands, Austria-Hungary still declared war.

. . .

Now let us examine for comparison what is going on in Lebanon today.

It is pointless to bicker like five year old children about who "started" it, in a 50 year old conflict that has never stopped smouldering. As an immediate provocation, or excuse for one, members of Hezbollah attacked some Israeli soldiers and kidnapped two, taking them back to Lebanon. Other members of Hezbollah occupy positions in the Lebanese government, and the group has admittedly been supported by militants in Syria and Iran. There are strong parallels here with the Black Hand militants of pre-World War I and their tangential ties to the 1914 Serbian government.

But in response, Israel did not just THREATEN to invade and impose collective punishment, they ARE invading and have been bombing Lebanon for a week already. Already over 300 people have been killed there, mostly innocent civilians. Even more devastating have been attacks on civilian infrastructure. Most people in this country have no comprehension of the scale of the destruction. They are well on the way to leveling South Beirut already.

[Joe Bacon]

9. Bush will do anything to trigger Armageddon

He really believes that he will be let off the hook when Jesus does THE GREAT FLOAT OFF.

Chucklenuts is in for such a nasty shock when Jesus kisses him off