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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 09:57 PM
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Did Goss Warn Allies to Prepare for U.S. Bombing of Iran?
Edited on Fri Dec-23-05 10:17 PM by G_j
http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=51873

12/21/2005
Possible US Air Operation Against Iran & Syria

CIA Director Porter Goss recently visited Ankara, Turkey. He reportedly brought 3 dossiers on Iran with him, which stated that Iran has nuclear weapons, was supporting terrorism including the PKK and al-Qaeda, and that Tehran sees Turkey as an enemy.

Goss is said to have asked for Turkey's support against Iran's nuclear activities, and asked Ankara to be ready for a possible US air operation against Iran and Syria.

Government spokesman Cemil Cicek said "There are important developments and movements in the region, Turkey’s exchange of information with the
CIA comes from this and is normal". He also said that Turkey has expectations of the US regarding the PKK.
Source: www.turkishpress.com


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http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5959

Der Spiegel writes Goss was in Turkey last week to discuss 2006 Iran strike

(in German)

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,392136,00.html

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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 10:11 PM
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1. Ya.
Because all valid LBN sources have adverts for pr0n.
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truth2power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 10:16 PM
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2. Gotta do it before March...
Iranian oil bourse and all that...

How many innocent people are going to have to die this time around, just because of the maniacs controlling this country? And when...when is the rest of the world going to stand up to these monsters??

It's awfully difficult feeling hopeful anymore. :cry:
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doublethink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 10:47 PM
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3. Never give up, never surrender .....
keep the faith ..... but K&R this thread, keep this issue front and center. :daily: Yea the first few months of 2006 could tell us a-lot on how far these Neo-Cons plan on taking all this. Peace.
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 10:08 AM
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12. "when is the rest of the world going to stand up to these monsters?"
Edited on Sat Dec-24-05 10:09 AM by Boojatta
The first step might be to require the Iranian government to study electronic copies of all new books that are to be published anywhere in the world outside of Iran. If the Iranian government approves a given book, then it must accept responsibility for having approved it. If the Iranian government refuses to approve a given book, then it must identify precisely which sentences are unacceptable to the Iranian government. Then they must accept responsibility for guaranteeing to the rest of the world that none of the unacceptable sentences occurs in any book (old or new) that is in Iran. If the Iranian government forbids a given sentence but that sentence occurs in a book that has not yet been banned in Iran, then the Iranian government should pay a hefty fine to the United Nations.

That would keep the monsters busy, no?
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truth2power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 11:16 AM
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14. Uh...I was thinking of the monsters in the Bush administration.
Sorry if I'm misinterpreting. On the run. Gotta go. :)
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 11:00 PM
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4. Probably just keeping the torture chambers open........
for his use.
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-23-05 11:02 PM
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5. Bombing Iran
is a fine way to make absolutely certain that the oil crisis comes to a head almost immediately if not sooner........and an excellent way to ensure that there will be, sooner rather than later, a nuclear strike at the US. There is no way that the middle east will not take revenge for that.
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Aimah Donating Member (598 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 12:13 AM
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6. Can we finish 1 war?
Can these idiots see that we are wearing ourselves thin? Do they really want to destroy America?? We're not done in Afghanistan and shouldn't have gone into Iraq.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 12:16 AM
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7. That'll get us in nice and deep...
I suppose It is likely Iran will retaliate. Then we will be fighting a two or three front war.

But the only way I can think of to get Americans behind such a thing would be for 'terrorists' to pop off a nuke on American soil.

I really wouldn't put it past these people to do it.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 12:18 AM
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8. Its coming folks!!!
:nuke:
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redacted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 02:49 AM
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9. More Reports
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 08:06 AM
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10. thanks
Edited on Sat Dec-24-05 08:07 AM by G_j
so now UPI has it also
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 09:17 AM
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11. Of course there will be
Gotta distract 'Murkins from that impeachment thing, heh heh.
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Karmadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 10:41 AM
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13. "An usurper's sole resource is uninterrupted war"
Bush is no Napoleon, but he has no choice but to engage in constant war.

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/676/

<edit>

Had France remained at peace, her peaceful citizens, her idle warriors would have observed the despot, would have judged him, and would have communicated their judgments to him. Truth would have passed through the ranks of the people. Usurpation would not have long withstood the influence of truth. Thus Bonaparte was compelled to distract public attention by bellicose enterprises. War flung onto distant shores that part of the French nation that still had some real energy. It prompted the police harassment of the timid, whom it could not force abroad. It struck terror into men's hearts, and left there a certain hope that chance would take responsibility for their deliverance: a hope agreeable to fear and convenient to inertia. How many times have I heard men who were pressed to resist tyranny postponing this, during wartime till the coming of peace, and in peacetime until war commences!

I am right therefore in claiming that a usurper's sole resource is uninterrupted war. Some object: what if Bonaparte had been pacific? Had he been pacific, he would never have lasted twelve years. Peace would have re-established communication among the different countries of Europe. These communications would have restored to thought its means of expression. Works published abroad would have been smuggled into the country. The French would have seen that they did not enjoy the approval of the majority of Europe: their prestige could not have been sustained. Bonaparte perceived this truth so well that he broke with England in order to escape the British newspapers. Yet even this was not enough. While a single country remained free, Bonaparte was never safe. Commerce, active, adroit, invisible, indefatigable, capable of overcoming any distance and of insinuating itself through a thousand roundabout means, would sooner or later have reintroduced into the empire those enemies whom it was so important to exile from it. Hence the Continental blockade and the war with Russia.

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greiner3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 11:50 AM
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15. Here we go again! n/t
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 04:46 PM
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16. Bush regime to America
Happy fucking New Year
Try to impeach my ass will ya
Well suck on this a while.

If you think the first 5 years were bad hang on tight
there just getting started.

You're either with them or against them.

They are certifiable ideological lunatics in charge of the deadliest
military & most powerful Nation on the planet.

Megalomaniacs is not an over statement.


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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-24-05 08:25 PM
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17. We can't win in Iraq - Iran would be even worse n.t
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