Dave Lindorff: Attacking Iran Would be Madness and a Capital Crime

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With the Bush administration clearly pushing for war with Iran, as crazy as that would be, not just for an already over-extended, burned out military, but because of the havoc it would wreak on the global economy, it is time to call attention to a few points that are being ignored.

First of all, even U.S. intelligence experts were saying only last year that Iran was at least 10 years away from having a bomb, so the alarmist claims being made by Bush and his gang, echoing the nonsense we heard in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, about the threat of nuclear holocaust, are simply scare tactics and should fool nobody.

Secondly, we should be asking why Iran would be trying to build a nuclear bomb in the first place, and what kind of threat it would pose if they did build one, or even several. Certainly an Iranian bomb would pose no threat to the U.S., any more than a North Korean bomb poses a threat to the U.S. With tens of thousands of bombs, including huge city-vaporizing H-bombs, in the U.S. arsenal, no country except for Russia has the ability to seriously threaten America. The same goes for U.S. allies, whether in Europe or the Middle East. If Iran were to threaten Kuwait or Israel with nuclear attack, it would simply be committing suicide because of U.S. retaliation.

Full article here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/lindorff/016

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1. More Bullshit from the Busholini Warmongering Oil Junta.

This is about Oil!

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2. It's not about the bomb, it's about power, money, oil and greed. n/t

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3. It is now and always has been about getting Cheney's pipeline

through all of the countries that Bush/Cheney are threatening or already have invaded.