Bush Is About to Attack Iran
Why Can't Americans See it?
by Paul Craig Roberts
The American public and the US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime's determination to escalate the war in Iraq. A massive protest demonstration is occurring in Washington DC today, and Congress is expressing its disagreement with Bush's decision to intensify the war in Iraq.
This is all to the good. However, it misses the real issue – the Bush Regime's looming attack on Iran.
Rather than winding down one war, Bush is starting another. The entire world knows this and is discussing Bush's planned attack on Iran in many forums. It is only Americans who haven't caught on. A few senators have said that Bush must not attack Iran without the approval of Congress, and postings on the Internet demonstrate world wide awareness that Iran is in the Bush Regime's cross hairs. But Congress and the Media – and the demonstration in Washington – are focused on Iraq.
What can be done to bring American awareness up to the standard of the rest of the world?
In Davos, Switzerland, the meeting of the World Economic Forum, a conference where economic globalism issues are discussed, opened January 24 with a discussion of Bush's planned attack on Iran. The Secretary General of the League of Arab States and bankers and businessmen from such US allies as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates all warned of the coming attack and its catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and the world.
Writing for Global Research, General Leonid Ivashov, vice president of the Academy on Geopolitical Affairs and former Joint Chief of Staff of the Russian Armies, forecasted an American nuclear attack on Iran by the end of April. General Ivashov presented the neoconservative reasoning that is the basis for the attack and concluded that the world's protests cannot stop the US attack on Iran.
There will be shock and indignation, General Ivashov concludes, but the US will get away with it. He writes:
"Within weeks from now, we will see the informational warfare machine start working. The public opinion is already under pressure. There will be a growing anti-Iranian militaristic hysteria, new information leaks, disinformation, etc.... The probability of a US aggression against Iran is extremely high. It does remain unclear, though, whether the US Congress is going to authorize the war. It may take a provocation to eliminate this obstacle (an attack on Israel or the US targets including military bases). The scale of the provocation may be comparable to the 9/11 attack in NY. Then the Congress will certainly say 'Yes' to the US president."
The Bush Regime has made it clear that it is convinced that Bush already has the authority to attack Iran. The Regime argues that the authority is part of Bush's commander-in-chief powers. Congress has authorized the war in Iraq, and Bush's recent public statements have shifted the responsibility for the Iraqi insurgency from al-Qaeda to Iran. Iran, Bush has declared, is killing US troops in Iraq. Thus, Iran is covered under the authorization for the war in Iraq.
Both Bush and Cheney have made it clear in public statements that they will ignore any congressional opposition to their war plans. For example, CBS News reported (Jan. 25) that Cheney said that a congressional resolution against escalating the war in Iraq "won't stop us." According to the Associated Press, Bush dismissed congressional disapproval with his statement, "I'm the decision-maker."
Everything is in place for an attack on Iran. Two aircraft carrier attack forces are deployed to the Persian Gulf, US attack aircraft have been moved to Turkey and other countries on Iran's borders, Patriot anti-missile defense systems are being moved to the Middle East to protect oil facilities and US bases from retaliation from Iranian missiles, and growing reams of disinformation alleging Iran's responsibility for the insurgency in Iraq are being fed to the gullible US media.
General Ivashof and everyone in the Middle East and at the Davos globalization conference in Europe understands the Bush Regime's agenda.
Why cannot Americans understand?
Why hasn't Congress told Bush and Cheney that they will both be instantly impeached if they initiate a wider war?
Original article posted here.
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I can't address the question on Congress except to say that my fear, loathing, and disgust are growing by the minute.
As to the US public, most of us seem to like our issues simple and of violent resolution. I tend to think of it as football culture.
Then again, there are the reprehensible excuses for a "Free Press" which pour out little but, "an unidentified official said.....and Now, back to American Idol!"
Senator Chuck Hagel said, "The American people are not stupid, they know what's going on."
Oh how I would it were true.
But it is not true.
The majority of Americans, and all of the 13 million illegal immigrants are frightfully unaware.
They suffer from extreme low awareness.
There are millions of college educated people across our land who are not paying attention.
The evidence to show that Dick Cheney personally guided bomb-strapped, air force drones into the World Trade Center Towers is esoteric but clear.
And the only television mention I have heard is from truth.org members on the O'Reilly Factor where a few of their words slip through the barrage of pummling insults spewed forth by the "fair and balanced," "no spin" O'Reilly.
Prescott Bush bought wholesale Nazi gold during WWII and sold it retail in the global marketplace. Was THAT aiding and abetting the enemy? I haven't heard one Congress person or Senator offer that as a retort when undergoing character assassination for daring to ask Bush for an honest discussion.
Bush and Cheney are clearly the terrorists. Iraq is a smoke screen. A magician's slight of hand to divert our attention away from the REAL war which is meant to destroy the Constitution and enslave us all.
ktony, the football culture drinks beer, eats potato chips, and burps in lethargy at the glowing idiot tube which speaks much and says nothing.
I think you're onto something there.
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