Petraeus Testimony Next Week Will Signal Iran Attack By Paul Craig Roberts

[Joanne98]

Today (April 5) the London Daily Telegraph reported that “British officials gave warning yesterday that America’s commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran’s intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian military facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment.”

The neocon lacky Petraeus has had his script written for him by Cheney, and Petraeus together with neocon warmonger Ryan Crocker, the US governor of the Green Zone in Baghdad, will present Congress next Tuesday and Wednesday with the lies, for which the road has been well paved by neocon propagandists such as Kimberly Kagan, that “the US must recognize that Iran is engaged in a full-up proxy war against it in Iraq.”

Don’t expect Congress to do anything except to egg on the attack. On April 3 the International Herald Tribune reported that senators and representatives have made millions of dollars from their investments in defense companies totaling $196 million. (AP).

Rep. Ike Skelton, the Democrat chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is already on board with the attack on Iran. The London Telegraph quotes Skelton: “Iran is the bull in the china shop. In all of this, they seem to have links to all of the Shi’ite groups, whether they be political or military.”

All Skelton knows is what the war criminal Bush regime tells him. If Iran really does have all these connections, then it behooves Washington to cease threatening Iran and to make nice with Iran in order to stabilize Iraq and extract the US from the nightmare.
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/petraeus-testimony-next-week-will-signal-iran-attack-by-paul-craig-roberts/

[AlertLurker]

1. More than likely the reason they have been provoking Al-Sadr.

Since he has ties to, and has often visited Iran, they will spin him and the Mahdi Army as obviously being under the direct control of Khamenei.

Using the same irrefutable logic, because Chavez, Morales and Ortega all visited Khamenei in 2007 (and so are under his control, as well), the USA now has a moral obligation to "liberate" Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, as well.

Are the Pentagon and WH going to be able to end-run the Constitution and steamroll Congress AGAIN?

FUCKFUCKFUCK.

[MattSh]

4. That "should" say...

Are the Pentagon and WH going to be able to end-run the Constitution and steamroll Congress AGAIN?

That should say...

Are the Pentagon, the WH, and the Congress going to be able to steamroll the Constitution AGAIN?

The Congress is complicit. Don't treat them like they're innocent victims in this. They know what's going on and they approve.

[USA_1]

2. Ahamadinejad is attacking al-Maliki's Government??

So why did al-Maliki roll out the red carpet and shake hands so vigorously with Ahmadinejad last month?

All of this pro war bullshit is so stupid! So why the hell is the Democratic party leadership in Congress so silent? When the hell are they going to put a stop to the pro war campaign???

[Doctor_J]

3. They're not silent, they're fighting a propaganda machine that has Goebbels

smiling up from hell upon. we're going to have to splinter the ultra-right-wing media juggernaut before we have any hope of taking the country back.