Bush 'plans Iran air strike by August' »
Posted By jovial 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsThe George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently.
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jovial1 year, 5 months ago
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This rumor is gaining strength. This administration continually denies the possibility of the fiasco becoming a reality, but more and more are leaking the information. Like a silent protest. We should have been able to impeach these guys long ago. Pelosi, Bush, Cheney, the blood will be on your hands.
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tehranchik1 year, 5 months ago
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dunkirk1 year, 5 months ago
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Look at it as the last attempt but he NeoCons to keep control. With Dumya and the Republicans in control we have all the makings of a real true world standoff as Russia could very well become involved. Yes NeoCOns you're gung ho keyboard warrior personas which avoided serving in the war you so fervently supported has left he military short handed. Dumya and his ineptitude has managed to stretch the miltary short. (Against a badn fo rag-tag, dead enders, who are in their last throes, according to you). ALtho it would also allow him to declare a national emergency and postpone the elections. So if a few hundred thousand die as a result, no big deal right, since that allows trhe ineptitude should continue.
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mesodude1 year, 5 months ago
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The sad thing is that Bush actually thinks this will help the GOP hold onto the White House and become part of his legacy. What he fails to realize is that impeachment hearings against Clinton are one of the main reason he was able to slither in under the radar and be taken seriously as a presidential candidate. His own impeachment hearings will be in full swing by mid October if he does this. I don't think he will (because those few remaining allies helping us now in Afghanistan and Iraq will pack up and go home) but if he does, the upside is the certain annihilation of the GOP on Nov 4.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 5 months ago
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I really LIKE the author's name--Muhammad Cohen. But whatever amusement I might derive from his self-contradictory identification is overwhelmed by the poor writing and lack of substance in the article. He really drags up all the old ghosts, but he doesn't adequately back up his central assertion.
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mark-stevens1 year, 5 months ago
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WMD's... After watching news stories on the next generation of cars, 90 miles per gallon or better. You begin to realize that one day the world will stop buying oil from those wacky Arabs, and they can go back to their tents and camals, and leave us alone!!
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mark-stevens1 year, 5 months ago
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... or April of 2007???
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2007/01/15/...
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IanFraigun1 year, 5 months ago
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The issue of impeachment is not one that would have done any good for us. Pelosi was correct in not moving down that path. Impeachment still leaves Bush in office unless convicted in the senate. No president has ever been convicted so effort and money spent to impeach, as much as I would love to see it, would be wasted.
It takes 3/4 of the US Senate votinng YES to convict. With 49 from Bush's party there is no change of getting that vote unless he does something much worse than he has already done.
If you understand that aspect you would understand why there is no action to impeach. Look what happened to Clinton. Years of investigation and not acting on needed legislation and when the senate voted he was not convicted so we spent all that time and all that money for what purpose. To make republicans look good to their base nothing more. That kind of money wasting we do not need.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 5 months ago
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I can't believe people are looking at the political aspects of this.
Hello, we attack Iran. Russia will come into it. We have the start of WWIII. Bush wants that no doubt. I would not want to go down in the history of man kind as the idiot who started WWIII. Because I wanted to bring about the destruction of most of man kind.
What a complete lack brain use by those who support this crap.
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jovial1 year, 5 months ago
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cloud151 year, 5 months ago
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I have some doubts over the credibility of this article. Too many "sources" and not enough names. If the senator's articles come out in the paper then it will be proven credible. But if they don't, then the chances are it is false.
But in the case of it being true, there will be some real problems. *starts packing for Canada*
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 5 months ago
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Can anybody call time out?
Aren't our soldiers carefully tiptoeing through poppy fields in Afghanistan?
Don't both Maliki and Al Sadr have strong links with Iran?
We have already bitten off more than we can chew.
Baseball players chew.
They say the best ones can see the stitches on the ball as they swing.
Does anybody have an eye on the ball?
Stop-Loss
Our Kids, our Money, for what?
I totally respect the conservative point of view;
I just can not understand how stuff like this fits into it.
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canadianrancher571 year, 5 months ago
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flyonthewallzz- I understand conservative thinking and most times respect it, the only problem is the present administration is not what I would call conservative and that is sort of represented in a poll I saw today where only 68 percent of republicans support the pres.
As for the attack on Iran maybe President Bush wants to leave his mark in history as the leader who made the worlds biggest mistake.
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not2needy1 year, 5 months ago
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Where there's smoke there's fire.
Bush himself said that he intended to have us so embedded in the middle east that the next president would have no hope of getting us out, this will probably be his way of accomplishing it.
A truly evil man.
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crghss1 year, 5 months ago
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"Bush himself said that he intended to have us so embedded in the middle east that the next president would have no hope of getting us out"
Funny how people can post an out and out lie and pretend its the truth. But whats scarier is when they really start to believe their own BS. I truly think n2n believes this. I guess this kind of mentality is an example of how someone can strap a bomb to themselves walk into the middle of a wedding or place of worship and blow themselves and everyone around them to pieces. Wow, truly amazing.
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canadianrancher571 year, 5 months ago
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automan909- Your comment sort of validates their reason for having the bomb. People are always making reference to Iran training and supplying terrorists or insurgents but the fact is most nations do this so before accusing others one should always look in the mirror first. The logic of attacking someone who has done nothing makes as much sense as fining all teens for speeding as soon as they get their liscence because some day they will speed.
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TOD3961 year, 5 months ago
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It really doesn't take much to get all of you guys in a tizzy, now does it? Unamed sources from an obscure website and all of a sudden, we are in WWIII. Do you guys lay awake at night praying for stuff like this?
There is no credence to any of the story yet all of you jump on it like it's Christmas morning. So, let me ask, if by August, the US has not used air strikes against Iran, will all of you then come back and say this story was a lie? Like you do with the reasons that we went to war with Iraq? Or will you do what you always do and say, Well, it's Bush's fault"
Your stories and your excuses are all starting to sound the same. Next thing you know, you will all say that Obama would make a good president...
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quiteman1 year, 5 months ago
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Endoscopy1 year, 5 months ago
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Lets pull out and let the blood flow like in Viet Nam. Let the killing fields begin. What compassion you liberals have. You want a repeat of history. Millions dead and hundreds of thousands in concentration camps. The problem this time is if we let them win there they will come here soon.
Fools.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 5 months ago
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"So, let me ask, if by August, the US has not used air strikes against Iran, will all of you then come back and say this story was a lie?"
Of course, they won't, and it won't be necessary because by August they will have come up with a new story which asserts that Bush will invade Iran by October.
Then, when October rolls around, the forum will be filled with frantic predictions that Bush will declare martial law and prevent Obama from ever being inaugurated.
That will tide them over till January, by which time they will have concocted a new story, probably based on Bush and Cheney's alleged war profiteering.
This is a SOCIAL site, sir. That means that there is no standard of veracity. What counts is that you have a pack of like-minded hyenas to vote your story to the front page.
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Will13131 year, 5 months ago
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This is a SOCIAL site, sir. That means that there is no standard of veracity. What counts is that you have a pack of like-minded hyenas to vote your story to the front page.
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exactly like the Obama is a muslim.. or Obama smoked crack in a limo with me.. or Obama.. well you get the idea...
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Will13131 year, 5 months ago
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This is a SOCIAL site, sir. That means that there is no standard of veracity. What counts is that you have a pack of like-minded hyenas to vote your story to the front page.
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yet I don't see you calling out the posters of stories with titles like
Obama schooled in a madrassa.. Obama radical muslim... Obama smoked crack with me in a limo and had homo sex...
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Kennyg731 year, 5 months ago
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Bush, Cheney , and the Neocons did not go to all the trouble to eviscerate the Constitution and The Bill of Rights just to walk away quietly into the night.
Look for war in Iran , "terrorist threat/attack", or liquidation of one or more candidates to serve as an excuse to derail the election. Hell, they stole the last 2... and are getting tired of stealing... better just to cancel the whole damn mess.... nobody votes anyway!
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Endoscopy1 year, 5 months ago
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ROTFLMAO
The SS is being formed and you are one of their targets.
Can't get over that Gore lost fair and square. Several recounts of the Florida ballots ALWAYS gave the election to Bush. Only one recount by an extremely biased group gave it to Gore.
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beavith11 year, 5 months ago
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does iran have to be one screw turn away from a bomb before you idiots will admit a problem exists? the world is awash in reactor fuel. the ability to make 5% enriched fuel for reactors makes 70%, or better, weapons grade enriched an exercise in repetition. the heavy water plant they opened LAST YEAR is for plutonium production. a Pu bomb is tricky but clearly doable and it'd fit on their special Scud IRBM.
how in the world the US Gov't said that a bomb program was stopped in 2003 is sheer lunacy.
i would say don't worry about a US bombing. this is a clear and present danger to Israel. Ahmedinonutjob will be laughing out the other side of his mouth when israeli nuclear sub missiles rain bombs on iran.
problem solved.
"just like an iranian to bring an a bomb to an h bomb fight."
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fourthtunz1 year, 5 months ago
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{{{{does iran have to be one screw turn away from a bomb before you idiots will admit a problem exists?}}}}}
The problem is that people want to believe in an America that never really existed. Wars are about money, why do you think we have so many?
Is is so hard to believe that our cia could stir up things to make war?
Israel has over 100 nukes so if they can't take care of Iran, what about the UN? Why should we spend our money and lives to take care of the world?
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nikkibabe1 year, 5 months ago
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If any of you in your country care to remember the oil crisis in 1979 when drivers had to stand in line outside gas stations at 4am to fill up their "rationed" gallons, you have not seen anything yet
IF YOUR COUNTRY ATTACKS IRAN.
You will all be stationed at home and walk for everything from groceries to work.
Wake Up, and be heard and counted before it happens.
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nikkibabe1 year, 5 months ago
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On a visit to New York & Philadelphia last weekend, I saw long lines of people outside churches that were giving "FREE" soup.
Has your country hit the "DUBIOUS DISTINCTION OF THE RICHEST THIRD WORLD POOR COUNTRY" yet!
Enjoy the prosperity.
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Endoscopy1 year, 5 months ago
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You have an excuse to not understand what it takes to do what the rumor says. The ones who live here and are saying these things are ignorant fools.
The president does not have the power to start a war. He only has the power to fight back if someone attacks the US. Congress where at present Democrats rule has that power. That fact makes this rumor ridiculous.
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