Do We Have the Courage to Stop War with Iran?

[EV_Ares]

By Ray McGovern, AlterNet.

Witnessing the build-up to an unprovoked attack on Iran is like watching a train crash in slow motion. But it can be stopped -- if Why do I feel like the proverbial skunk at a Labor Day picnic? Sorry, but I thought you might want to know that this time next year there will probably be more skunks than we can handle. I fear our country is likely to be at war with Iran -- and with the thousands of real terrorists Iran can field around the globe.

It is going to happen, folks, unless we put our lawn chairs away on Tuesday, take part in some serious grassroots organizing and take action to prevent a wider war -- while we still can.

President George W. Bush's speech Tuesday lays out the Bush/Cheney plan to attack Iran and how the intelligence is being "fixed around the policy," as was the case before the attack on Iraq.

It's not about putative Iranian "weapons of mass destruction," not even ostensibly. It is about the requirement for a scapegoat for U.S. reverses in Iraq and the White House's felt need to create a casus belli by provoking Iran in such a way as to "justify" armed retaliation, eventually including air strikes on its nuclear-related facilities.

Bush's Aug. 28 speech to the American Legion comes five years after a very similar presentation by Vice President Dick Cheney. Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Aug. 26, 2002, Cheney set the meretricious terms of reference for war on Iraq.

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[BOSSHOG]

1. Excellent question in the subject line

I do not have the answer but I do know that

BUSH AND HIS SUPPORTERS CERTAINLY HAVE THE IGNORANCE NECESSARY TO START A WAR WITH IRAN

IGNORANCE - one of the greatest and most cherished of conservative values.

[peacetalksforall]

3. Yes, there are plenty of young, able bodied people in Iran - who would

probably not want to fight, but would have to.

In contrast, if they came here to study or live, our country would be enriched.

But, no - PNAC, the barons, the reverends, some Israelis with the approval of Congress want them dead and they ignore their numbers for fighting us and their spiritual souls.

All those young Iranians would have more justification for fighting back than we do - they are protecting - we are plundering.

[tularetom]

2. "We" don't even seem to have the courage to stop a war with Iraq

that has turned into the biggest foreign policy clusterfuck in US history.

[HuffleClaw]

4. i don't see how 'we' (or congress for that matter) can stop bush's new war

a million people could march on DC and it wouldn't make one damn bit of difference. i think that at this point only the military leadership have any chance of preventing a war (and i'm pretty sure they've stopped bush's iran war plans at least twice already) but i'm also pretty sure bush and his evil minions have a plan to 'justify' a war that will preclude any military brass interference.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Yeah, I keep seeing all these "We gotta stop 'em"...

missives, but "we" haven't been able to stop 'em from any damnfool thing they've tried in the past.

Just marching past the White house on a weekend isn't gona help any more than it did the last few times we tried that. Pounding on our Congresscritters to do something might help a little, but they are also limited in what they can do with this crew.

Someone has to have the juice to tell them to stay away from Iran, but I have no idea who that would be.

[AndyTiedye]

6. Stop it How?

take part in some serious grassroots organizing and take action to prevent a wider war

Grass-roots organizing to do what? What sort of action has any traction?

Air strikes on Iran seem inevitable, unless grassroots America can arrange a backbone transplant for Congress.

Bush** has threatened to play his trump card again:



Is it any wonder that Congress always caves? They don't really have any recourse to that.