Bush ‘Plans Iran Air Strike by August’

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/27/9220/

Bush ‘Plans Iran Air Strike by August’
by Muhammad Cohen
NEW YORK - The George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently.

Two key US senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition to the move, according to the source, but their projected New York Times op-ed piece has yet to appear.

The source, a retired US career diplomat and former assistant secretary of state still active in the foreign affairs community, speaking anonymously, said last week that that the US plans an air strike against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). The air strike would target the headquarters of the IRGC’s elite Quds force. With an estimated strength of up to 90,000 fighters, the Quds’ stated mission is to spread Iran’s revolution of 1979 throughout the region.

Targets could include IRGC garrisons in southern and southwestern Iran, near the border with Iraq. US officials have repeatedly claimed Iran is aiding Iraqi insurgents. In January 2007, US forces raided the Iranian consulate general in Erbil, Iraq, arresting five staff members, including two Iranian diplomats it held until November. Last September, the US Senate approved a resolution by a vote of 76-22 urging President George W Bush to declare the IRGC a terrorist organization. Following this non-binding “sense of the senate” resolution, the White House declared sanctions against the Quds Force as a terrorist group in October. The Bush administration has also accused Iran of pursuing a nuclear weapons program, though most intelligence analysts say the program has been abandoned.

Either they are putting this out there to cause a stir or there is something to the story.

But an air strike will provoke reactions far beyond US voting booths. That would explain why two veteran senators, one Republican and one Democrat, were reportedly so horrified at the prospect.

I am scared of the possibility of something stupid done by chimp-in-chief

I guess since six years of countless predictions of that went nowhere, it's now the Revolutionary Guards.

there was a story that a planned 'event' for last year (predicted by, among other Scott Ritter) hit a snag when someone in the military caused a plane carrying buncha live nukes to get caught, as it's illegal to transport nuke weapons in USA, or something....expecting the most dreadful imaginable crime from the bushies is just good sense- it makes them work ten times as hard to arrange a really believable 'event', and snags do happen lol....just be happy we're still carrying on as usual. More trhen a few thought martial law would be in effect by now (though the means are available, the bushies seem terrified of their own followers, who are leftwing liberal commie pot smoking gays when it comes to...an actual no bs police state!)
besides, the mass media are the means of terror (when the news reports '20 suspected of bomb plot arrested' isn't it true that if there was really a plot to bomb a city, or poison its water supply, or ...anything; would not the authorities hide the news, to prevent fear from becoming panic etc?) so everything they do has to be suspect just on that basis (a real 'event' they would keep hidden-and the perps would be disappeared)

Roll over, drop trou, and declare we must all stand with the Commander in Chief in times of war? (<--my guess)

for as long as the troops have been coming home, and Al Quaeda #2 has getting shot. It just doesn't register anymore. Plus, I don't think the world will take it. Although it would be a last hurrah for the Bushies...see if they can kill a few more million on their way out.

just to keep the electorate focused on terrorism and keep them in a state of fear over Iran just before election time.

But an air strike will provoke reactions far beyond US voting booths. That would explain why two veteran senators, one Republican and one Democrat, were reportedly so horrified at the prospect.

Sounded the alarm on the Iran invasion 3 years ago and he was wrong. McGramps bombing Iran if he is elected concerns me. But thus far everytime someone has predicted Bush will bomb Iran, they have been wrong.

not Alex Jones.

and get our person out there to yell bloody murder about this insanity. Bush has no right to stir up a shitstorm right before an election when he KNOWS he won't be around to deal with the consequences.

We can't just sit here feeling helpless about this, we have got to fight against it! We have got to break this trance of learned powerlessness!

Peace,
sw

street cred over there. Their scenarios aren't being followed anymore; Israel is talking to Syria, Lebanon successfully changed their government NOT according to Bushie specifications.

The war demons are weakening.

sw