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Printer70 Donating Member (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 04:49 AM
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The effort to link Al Queda & Iran has begun
Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Iran. We will apparently bomb out every country with connections to Al Queda, however tenuous. Cons know they can't agitate for war against Iran now. But like the neocon Marchavik (sp?) said recently, neocons will begin laying the intellectual foundations for a possible strike later. Bridging Iran to Al Queda is just step 1 in the process.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2ViMTQ1NTllMjAxZDVmNjg3ZjIyMWRlMWU5OWE3N2M=

"In their relentless anti-American jihad, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and al Qaeda are one. "

"In hindsight, disclosure of an Iran/Hezbollah/Qaeda partnership should have come as no surprise. In the aforementioned spring 1998 indictment, the Justice Department alleged that bin Laden had “stated privately … that Al Qaeda should put aside its differences with Shiite Muslim terrorist organizations, including the Government of Iran and its affiliated terrorist group Hezballah"

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related: In the current issue of Foreign Policy, Joshua Muravchik, a prominent neoconservative, argued that the Administration had little choice. "Make no mistake: President Bush will need to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities before leaving office," he wrote. The President would be bitterly criticized for a preëmptive attack on Iran, Muravchik said, and so neoconservatives "need to pave the way intellectually now and be prepared to defend the action when it comes."
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Printer70 Donating Member (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 04:54 AM
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1. Also ran across this
Mort Zuckerman of US News asks, "What's the most dangerous geopolitical development in the 21st century?" The answer: "Iran's emergence as the Middle East regional superpower. Why? Because it places the center of the world's increasingly stretched energy resources more and more under the influence of an oil-rich, fundamentalist, pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic regime that has not only nuclear ambitions but the means to realize them."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/061203/11edit.htm

"The West will have to decide what is more dangerous–to attack the infrastructure of the Iranians sooner rather than later or to deal with an Iranian nuclear capability after the fact."
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 05:51 AM
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2. When do we bomb America?
After all, the 911 attackers even graduated from American universities.

Time to bomb ourselves.
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 06:00 AM
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3. What scares the shit out of me is I believe Bush thinks he can
bomb Iran and Iran will sit and do nothing like Iraq did. IMHO he does not believe they can fight back... :grr:

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