From the American News Project:
Washington's neocons are alive and well, advising both John McCain and President Bush. Now many are saying Bush should permit Israel to attack Iran's nuclear facilities after Election Day before the new president takes office. ANP investigates as we chase down John Bolton, Bill Kristol and Frank Gaffney to see how far ahead these hawks are thinking. And a new report says the whole plan could backfire.
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Escalation after retaliation sounds exactly that the neocons would want.
I would be pleased to bury John Bolton in my backyard
The last thing we need is another administration taking foreign policy advice from Bolton, Kristol and Gaffney.
I think we can afford to lose Israel as friend in exchange for cooperation and support from the Arab and Muslim world. But the real objective isn't securing peace of freedom, but rather to abuse their discretion of power for purely economic gain, whatever the human cost may be.
The Arabs viewed us as an honest broker right up until 1973. After that they came to see us as "All Israel all the time".
These guys don't care about Israel, they care about money and power...
There isn't one Neo-Con who cares how many Israeli's die in a senseless war...
They only know they can use Israel as leverage in the region for their own purposes the root of those being greed for money and power...
don't forget 79.....Carter saw the mess this could create for our country just like our dependence on forign oil...then Reagan started the oil party so we could live like slaves of our enimies while Brazil became energy independent.
huh?
Thank you for posting this.
One outcome of an Israeli attack on Iran is obvious. You can say goodbye to $150 a barrel oil. $500+ will be inevitable.
BTW: Someone needs to do a better job at following the neo-con money trail. K Street, Grover Norquist, Tom Delay, Dick Cheney, Bill Crystal, Richard Pearle. These guys are all connected, and they have their hands on John McCain too.
Check out the net worth of the typical neocon - they can afford $25 a gallon gas without a quiver.
As their constant focus on Israel makes painfully obvious, they never have placed the well-being of the American people first in their thinking.
If they have thought at all about the suffering the American people - and the peoples of all other nations - will endure if gas soars even higher, they have undoubtedly dismissed it with a Cheney-ish "So?".
The neocon lust for blood and plunder seems to have scoured them free of any morality whatsoever.
So, if this happens, how high do you think the price of a barrel of oil will go?
150?........$200?....$250???? How high can it go, and whom does it benefit?
Guess who………….The “Oil Boyz”, of course.
I gotta say, that these guys while greedy aren't all stupid. If the price of oil gets too high, the wheels of commerce will literally grind to a halt. This kind of action could send the world into a recession. That's not good for business. Now, I'm not saying that this kind of thing couldn't happen, but it would be the ideologues that cause it, not the businessmen. Starting a conflagration like this in the middle east is bad for business and a dumb move.
Great report. I am forwarding this video. The neocons are mad men pushing a mad policy.
What's telling is one neocon said: Iran is a threat to Israel, the region and the world. He didn't mention protecting America once. Neocons are traitors by definition.
If the neocons have their way, America will go bankrupt, and all Americans will be wondering the desert for generations to come.
W Bush is gonna do exactly what his daddy HW Bush did back in 1992 just before leaving office. After losing the election to Clinton, he decides to have a christmas occupation in Somalia of all places. Just within a couple months after taking office, Clinton is blamed for it all during the incident now infamously named "Blackhawk Down". Same with the first WTC attack, which happened only some 28 days after he took office if I recall rightly. Contrast that with W Bush getting no blame at all, for 9/11 when he was told it was gonna happen more than a month early, all the while he was President and could have prevented it.
Anyways, W Bush will attack Iran, and leave Obama holding the blame.
Bolton needs to be out of everything the neocons and the hwite house plans to do as he just ads to the level of stupidity these goofs have all together wanting to still start another war when we have not enough troops for the 2 we have now! Why is John Bolton still there as he lost the UN job and how is he related to anything still? They are in the "last throes" rememeber them as Cheney was the great promoter of everything being at it's worst and they were having the throes all over Iraq? They have until January to get the next war going and Congress should go back if not to lock the oil guys getting more oil leases but to stop Cheney and the others from declaring another war without them. The forged Iraq letter would be a fine place to start. HEY CONGRESS!! Stop them now please!!!
Great reporting.
It is amazing these neocons make money projecting their interests in this fashion and pretty threatening to all of us that they are not eager in telling us the worse case scenario for taking out Iran, just as they were with Afaganistan and Iraq. The same broken record.
We need to immediately remove these people from decision making and destroy our own Nucks so we can further the case about world global peace.
At the same time legalize marijuana to give these guys something to chew on that is not so threatening.
These quasi-terrorist groups should be outlawed.
They are terrified Obama might win.
In the event Israel attacks Iran, the international community will not take lightly to this major disruption in the world order and Israel stands to be a big loser in the long run even if she prevails militarily.
If U.S. and Israel want to stop Iran from developing nukes, it has to become active on the political front. A military strike may just postpone the matter and Israelis will pay a price in blood as Iranians will exact revenge.
An undesirable, yet more practical outcome to this crisis may be a return to days of MAD. If Iran acquires nuclear capability, then Israel needs to set in motion a plan that guarantees a retaliatory strike against the offensive use of the nukes by Iran. U.S. may have to sell a small contingent of submarines armed with nuclear warheads to Israel.
Look, before everyone torpedoes (no pun intended) me for putting out crazy ideas about further nuclear proliferation, you must realize that Iran is after the nukes. There is absolutely no reason for them to not forfeit their rights to enrich uranium and they have so much to gain from the concessions they are receiving if they simply acquire enriched uranium from abroad.
After the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan by the U.S., the mullahs in Tehran believe regime change in Iran is part of the U.S. agenda when she gets around to it. The mullahs want the nukes to ensure their survival.
It is ESSENTIAL to the security of America to abandon the Ashkenazi Khazars. Only when this is done will we be free again.
I don't know what's more amazing--how relentless these guys are and how they keep coming up with idiotic ideas or that some politicians still have any contact with them, let alone actually take their ideas seriously.
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First Posted: 08- 8-08 05:39 PM | Updated: 09- 8-08 05:12 AM