With seventeen months remaining in office, time and opportunity is running out for President Bush to launch another war in the Middle East. The next target of the neocons orbiting Bush’s tiny pinhead is Iran — a member of his so-called “Axis of Evil,” and one of the largest producers of oil in the region.
So it should come as no surprise that a third US carrier, the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise Strike Group is speeding towards the Persian Gulf.
The USS Enterprise CVN 65-Big E Strike Group, the US Navy’s largest air carrier, will join the USS Stennis and the USS Nimitz carriers, building up the largest sea, air, marine concentration the United States has ever deployed opposite Iran.
This goes towards making good on the assurances of four carriers US Vice President Dick Cheney offered the Gulf and Middle East nations during his May tour of the region.
Washington is considering deploying the fourth US carrier for the region in the Red Sea opposite Saudi Arabian western coast to secure the three US carriers in the Gulf from the rear as well as the Gulf of Aqaba and Suez Canal.
It is my belief that Israel’s hold on our gov’t as well as that of the militray-industrial-complex is the reason Congress has not acted on impeachment. I believe that US domination of the Mideast is as much the goal of Congress, Dem and Rep, as it is of the White House.
Pelosi/Reid have scammed us.
They should be removed from office.
For at least 4 years, I have thought the next logical step in the Iraq war would include an invasion and/or air strike of Iran.
By folding military action against Iran into chapter of the Iraq war, the Bush administration won’t have to go through the tiresome effort of making their case to a skeptical Congress worried the American voters may turn on them next November for failing to end the first Bush war.
See, Cheney worked it all out long ago.
I was surprised the Iran war didn’t begin this past April.
How many must die, and how mush damage must be done to provide Bush with another failed conquest?
Why must there be a war against Iran? Because George Bush says so?
Sorry, but that dog doesn’t bark. Bush also says God speaks to him. Can we agree that he’s insane and belongs in a mental institution?
The brilliant and esteemed Symour Hersh in the New Yorker wrote the following:
The Coming Wars
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/24/050124fa_fact
George W. Bush’s reëlection was not his only victory last fall. The President and his national-security advisers have consolidated control over the military and intelligence communities’ strategic analyses and covert operations to a degree unmatched since the rise of the post-Second World War national-security state. Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism—during his second term. The C.I.A. will continue to be downgraded, and the agency will increasingly serve, as one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as “facilitators” of policy emanating from President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney.
This process is well under way.
I fear Hersh is correct. We’re about to see the start of WWIII.
A U.S. invasion of Iran would be reckless, even senseless.
What is the point of another ill-planned war in the region targeting Iran? Do the neocons really think attacking from the air and not the ground will result in the strategic goal of toppling the radical, Islamic mullahs who run Iran?
Both China and Russia have said on record that they will not sit on their hands if the U.S. attacks Iran — an important business partner and source of oil to them. Is the Bush administration really so stupid as to risk stoking the ire of two of the world’s most powerful nuclear powers?
And where the Congress? I know we’re nearing their 6 week summer holiday but how can they seriously think the voters will tolerate them fleeing Washington with the possibility of another war about to begin?
The treatment of gay Iranians is abominable.
Radical theocrats routinely jail and murder gay Iranians in the name of Allah. The purge of gays in Iran is criminal and largely ignored by the west.
Including the USA.
As much as I detest war and as much as I don’t trust this president’s judgment to successfully carry out any further military action, I do hold that change must take place to rid Iran of the Islamic homophobes that run the country.
Maybe this is the topic Bush and Putin discussed in Maine? Overthrowing Ahmadinejad?
We will know when war against Iran is underway if we turn on the TV news and hear Israel is evacuating Tel Aviv. All I know is the US has become insane and I no longer know my own country.
There’s no question gays get a lousy shake in most of the Islamic world. Things were shitty for Iraqi gays when Saddam Hussien was in power and life hasn’t improved. Human rights groups have covered the killings of gay Iranian teenagers at the hands of the Ahmadinejad regime. Who can say overthrowing him will improve conditions there? I smell oil. Nothing lofty from this administration. If Bush is involved, oil is the motivation.
These are scary times. As an American citizen I don’t trust my government to do what is right by me and by the rest of the world. The USA is only 5% of the world’s population yet we seem to cause 90% of the world’s troubles.
And as others have said, Bush will have his Iran war and the Democratic majority in the House and Senate will scream and shout and look the other way.
Remember, there’s a presidency to win.
Or so they hope.
Christopher is well aware of more alarming views than these on the likely path to be followed by this administration. The thousands of indoctrinated ‘contractors’, hundreds of barbed-wire camps in the U.S. , and grants of extraordinary powers not seen since the Roman Emperors hint at extreme ugly on the way.
It is Time to begin the Persian Gulf war ||| !
and fall down the islamic regim.
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I think we should do whatever we can to prevent another war in the world. It’s very sad that in the 21st century the people in power are acting like the kings in the past, war after war. We called ourselves civilized people and a democratic country and we end an argument without any good reason to a bloody war. I hope we could do something to stop the wars around of the world.
How shallow minded and self centered we seem
to be ,Gays and and peace lovers.Get a life all through the history of the world there has been war . The USA is the world power of gods choice.
This a godly nation not an axis of evil. I am proud
of my country and can see all te good we do.As always every disaster who is there !!!the usa not these one sided countries.