What will be the date we air strike Syria and Iran?

[BlueJac]

My son in-law is being deployed to Iraq next month. He is scheduled to be there only three months. He is in the air force. His job is refueling planes in midair. The aircraft carriers are already on their way to the Middle East. Is this another pre-war build up or what?

[xultar]

1. Late Sept to Mid October to screw with the election.

[Bucky]

2. There won't be an American attack on Iran. Period.

God that man has screwed up this country for a generation. We've crossed the line from a healthy mistrust of government to an absolute faith in our government's maliciousness.

Remember this: they are not evil to be evil; they do evil to turn a profit. Attacking Iran--besides being geopolitical suicide and strategically impossible given our current force capabilities--would hurt our international business profits. The neocons have never been anything more than useful pet monkeys to the oil and finance jillionaires who underwrite them. Sometimes they forget that they're just monkeys, but Big Bidness is usually pretty quick to remind them about who yanks the leash.

[leveymg]

6. You're assuming that the rational, self-interested types are in charge.

For months, I've been saying exactly what you have expressed so well here. But, I wonder who's really in charge here? Is it the Joint Chiefs and rational Wall Street bankers or Dubya and his gang of asylum inmates and their fanatic friends in Tel Aviv?

Things can go very badly crazy very fast under present circumstances. Look at August 1914.

[Ian David]

10. Profit motive is just a smokescreen to make their actions appear rational

America's Roadmap to The Apocalypse
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2747646&mesg_id=2747646

[soothsayer]

12. July 10 new yorker talks about how */cheney wanted to NUKE

iran! Seriously---they were (are) itching to nuke it to pieces.

[Marie26]

3. I'm guessing August

Congress in recess and all. If it happens.

[valerief]

4. August 27. n/t

[Marie26]

5. Wow, precise!

Do you have super-secret sources in the CIA? What makes you think of that day?

[valerief]

8. I've had a bad feeling about that day for decades. It's a personal thing.

No special powers. Just dart-throwing here.

[azygous]

7. September

Remember, "You don't introduce a new product in August". PNAC dweebs.

[Ian David]

9. I had bet on June 6, 2006, but that target date has come and gone...

I'm going to have to think of another Biblically significant date for Bush to Immenatize the Eschaton.

Perhaps on Yom Kippur? Mon Oct 2, 2006

Or sometime in October, for our October Surprise-- right around the same time Saddam's trial reconvenes?

[BlueJac]

11. How about Sept 11, 2006

The attack on the trades center is my wifes birthday. The subway attacks in London were on our anniversary, July 7. I thought someone would like to keep the streak of big things happening on special days of our life.