He Who Doth Protest Too Much

US Developing Contingency Plan to Bomb Iran: Report

US officials maintain they are not planning to attack Iran.

The plans, however, just keep coming.

Seymour Hersh reports in the New Yorker:

According to current and former American intelligence and military officials, secret operations in Lebanon have been accompanied by clandestine operations targeting Iran. American military and special-operations teams have escalated their activities in Iran to gather intelligence and, according to a Pentagon consultant on terrorism and the former senior intelligence official, have also crossed the border in pursuit of Iranian operatives from Iraq.

So, when they say they are not planning to attack Iran, we need to call their bluff.

Won't Be Fooled Again

Lebanon Will Be First Victim of Iran Crisis

Apparently a quagmire in one country isn't enough to stop Bush/Cheney/Rice et al. from SERIOUSLY considering an attack on another.

"Seriously considering" is probably a charitable assessment.

Iran, I fear, is next. All reasonable voices can and will be ignored.

The new carrier strike groups are in position in the Persian Gulf. More troops are headed to the region. The rhetoric is heating up. Deadlines are being set. Ultimatums will soon follow. Perhaps some motions at the UN....then.....airstrikes, perhaps.....But there will be no debate. Bush has already shown the world how much he cares about such trifles as "authorization" or "support" to say nothing of that rag we call the Constitution. You can forget about International Law. Forget about truth, justice, sanity.

Let's be blunt:

THESE PEOPLE - BUSH, RICE, CHENEY- ARE CHAMPING AT THE BIT.

WE MUST DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO STOP THIS INSANITY.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. CALL EACH OTHER. PLAN ACTIONS.

WE CAN STOP THIS. WE MUST NOT WAIT UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE.


PS - I never capitalize my posts

Whatever thou shalt Bind on Earth....

All talk but little action by Congress on the war / Motion may set the stage for real constraints

If George W. Bush gave a hoot about what other people think the troops would have come home a long time ago. There may not have been an Iraq war at all.

So what if Congress disapproves of the President's "surge," he's going to do it anyway. The only significant power they have right now is power of the purse. Cut the damn money, people. I didn't vote so ya'll can debate non-binding resolutions. You can stop this war.

By the way, there's another one in store for Iran, so get moving!

Italy indicts CIA agents in cleric's kidnapping - Los Angeles Times

Italy indicts CIA agents in cleric's kidnapping - Los Angeles Times

If the US Government thinks it can scoop foreign nationals off the streets of their own countries with impunity, these indictments might just put a damper on US vigilantism. Or, perhaps more realistically, the US government will continue to do whatever it wants, wherever it wants, despite what anyone anywhere says or does about it.