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Date: January 28, 2007 11:43:58 PM PST
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Subject: Iran -- The Whole World Is Watching America Except Americans
"Preventive war is like committing suicide because you're afraid to
die."
– Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor
Bush Is About to Attack Iran.
Why Can't Americans See it?
by Paul Craig Roberts
Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
Administration. He has been an Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal and a Contributing Editor of the National Review.
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=10411
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, forecasts 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.
Russian General Ivashof and everyone in the Middle East and at the
Davos globalization conference in Europe understands the Bush
Regime's agenda.
Why can't Americans understand?
Why hasn't Congress told Bush and Cheney that they will both be
instantly impeached if they initiate a wider war?
www.ctrl.org
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