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RiverStone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 02:44 AM
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Bush setting America up for war with Iran
Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.

Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, amid growing fears among serving officers that diplomatic efforts to slow Iran's nuclear weapons programme are doomed to fail.

Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran.

Now it has emerged that Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, who has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, is prepared to settle her differences with Vice-President Dick Cheney and sanction military action.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/16/wiran116.xml



Please, click on peacetrain link before reading the graphic below it....

http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html :think:




When will they ever learn?
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BulletproofLandshark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 03:06 AM
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1. This is what the road to World War III looks like
The entire administration is certifiably insane.
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FREEWILL56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 05:43 AM
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6. I totally agree.
Bush better stay away from Iran and pray that not one single atomic weapon goes off because it would be ww3. There would be so many innocent lives lost that it would dwarf any previous war or catastrophe known and our troops would be right there to be sacrificed for what? More friging oil? nuts:nuke: :scared: :crazy:
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StClone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 05:49 AM
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8. And 23% of Americans
Will applaud the insanity like trained seals on their way to End Times.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 07:34 AM
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9. Some will gleefully staff the Camps. Others will brush the greasy soot from their windowsills
every night and not give a thought as to why it keeps reapperaing again every day.

NOTE: It is probable this statement is a metaphor. I still maintain that the Busheis dare not too closely emulate the Nazis, because it's bad PR. But something almost equally as tragic and/or horrific will be in it's place, even though it may be a bit kinder and gentler than last time.
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Baby Snooks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 10:16 AM
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11. Because they believe in the End Times...
And they believe the End Times are merely God's way of punishing all those nasty Jews and Muslims who started it all. Everyone else is damned to Hell as well. Buddhists, Hindus, the Pagans. Some of those weird Protestants,too,like the Scientologists and the Mormons. They had their chance to repent and accept Jesus as their lord and savior. And turned their back on him.

So Jesus will turn his back on them in the End Times. Praise Jesus. Jesus is coming back, you know. The faithful will be raised to heaven in the Rapture. Jesus said so. And so did Pat Robertson.

And George W Bush said so. So it must be true. After all, George W Bush talks to God all the time. And God talks back to him. Maybe George W Bush really is Christ. He just hasn't remembered. But he will. Maybe when he begins to destroy the evildoers and open the gates to Heaven he will remember. And the Rapture will begin.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

Well, a little bit of sarcasm. A little bit of truth. About the 23% anyway. If there is a Rapture, I suspect they will find themselves on the escalator going down. Not up.
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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 03:06 AM
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2. America Is Dead.
Long Live The New Reich.
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 03:55 AM
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3. And I believe the U.K. Telegraph is a Conservative Newspaper generally...
...so, if this is true, it's definitely time to start the Impeachment process on Cheney! If, for no other reason, to give him something else to think about.:mad:
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Thorn Donating Member (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 05:22 AM
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4. If Only...
If only George had been offered the Major League Baseball Commissioners job, that he so much wanted. It would have keep his feeble mind busy for the rest of his life. I guess someone smart didn't want to screw up baseball.
We are being led by madmen.
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DJKDJKDJK Donating Member (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 05:40 AM
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5. And the Democratic Congress stood silent
I swear this is all one big rouse. They've all been bought.
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StClone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 05:45 AM
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7. If you knew of an invention that could save 100,000s of lives.
What would you do when you found it has already been invented.

It's called IMPEACHMENT!
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 09:25 AM
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10. Dietrich Bonhoeffer nt
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 10:31 AM
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12. Works for me
We're not going to get out of neoconservatism any other way. I have been saying for 3-4 years that we here in the US would be unable to defeat the right wing - that it is going to take help from abroad. Do you want the Iraq occupation to limp along for another 10 years, or do you want a WWIII that will be over in a couple years?

The sooner the better :thumbsup:
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-16-07 06:38 PM
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13. The question remains, will shopping malls in the United States begin to go boom...? from
the sleeping cells already reported that are already in the US.
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