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Starfury Donating Member (615 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 06:29 AM
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Get Ready for World War III (Paul Craig Roberts)
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Cindy Sheehan has the right question for Bush: What noble cause is being served by all this suffering and destruction?

Bush is in hiding from Mrs. Sheehan, because he knows only ignoble causes are being served. According to the CIA, the main beneficiary of the war is Osama bin Laden's recruitment drives. While America's military recruitment falters and U.S. generals announce that the war has broken the Reserves and National Guard, the cause of Islamic extremism basks in the Iraqi war.

Gentle reader, do you realize the danger of having a president so disconnected from reality that he plots to attack Iran – a country three times the size of Iraq – when he lacks sufficient forces to occupy Baghdad and to protect the road from Baghdad to the airport?

Despite all the high profile "sweeps" of U.S. forces through insurgent strongholds, U.S. commanders report a doubling of insurgent attacks.

The Bush administration is insane. If the American people do not decapitate it by demanding Bush's impeachment, the Bush administration will bring about Armageddon. This may please some Christian evangelicals conned by Rapture predictions, but World War III will please no one else.


http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=6936
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 06:33 AM
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1. ISTR rumors of a joint US-Israel invasion of Iran a while ago
I wonder if this is the materialization of them as a PNAC plot (if not fact). It could be just more sabre-rattling, I suppose, but given the grossly unrealistic prewar appraisal of the Iraq invasion and occupation, rationality is something of a high expectation of these thugs.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 10:01 AM
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5. Some thought the Iraq talk was "sabre rattling", too.
Look where THAT got us.

PNAC issues a new policy letter expressing concern over Iran's Nuke program, TinMan Cheney has his boys come up with a scenario for a Cold-War style aerial campaign in IRAN in case of "another 9-11" (how'd he know Iran's gonna be responsible? It could be the Saudis...AGAIN!) All the signs point towards another PNAC-inspired Clusterfuck...

It's more than just bluster coming from "Il Douche"...
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 06:34 AM
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2. "decapitate it by demanding Bush's impeachment"
All hail President-for-life Cheney!
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 07:45 AM
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3. I just realized something
other countries are pulling their troops out of Iraq,
they probably want to be gone before Bush starts bombing Iran.
That might be a clue to the timeline:

"Italy's 3,120 troops will go to zero by early next year, as will Poland's 1,500."
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2717577p-9155335c.html
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 09:47 AM
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4. "The Bush administration is insane." And so are those
Americans who support it. :crazy:
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 10:03 AM
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7. Yep
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 10:02 AM
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6. Preach it to your fellow Christofascist loons on your side of the isle. nt
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