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Date: September 16, 2007 12:38:37 PM PDT
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Subject: Cheney/Bush systematically escalating tensions in prelude
to war with Iran
A strike on Iran involving the use of nuclear weapons (in "bunker-
busters"), resulting inexorably in a state of war with Iran, a
nuclear power, would give Bush more than sufficient reason to
postpone or cancel the 2008 elections and could justify the arrest
of anyone "obstructing" wartime plans or "weakening military
morale" by opposing the war, incarcerating all protesters,
dissenters and critics in detention centers. As a nuclear war,
unlike the conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan, a war with Iran will
result in the immediate activation of all Executive Orders
applicable to a national emergency attended by "anarchy" among the
civilian population.
So long as George Bush and Dick Cheney are allowed to remain in
office, war with Iran is inevitable.
If war with Iran is inevitable, martial law --with loss of
Constitutional rights and civil liberties-- is inevitable
If martial law is inevitable, riots, armed rebellion, and civil
war, with injury and loss of life, are inevitable.
If riots, rebellion, and civil war in America, are inevitable, the
fact that Bush & Cheney remain in power amounts to a declaration of
war against US, "we the people," by ALL our elected representatives.
We are already at war, but, kill or be killed, our insidious,
implacable enemy is our own ruling class ...
Bush setting America up
for war with Iran
By Philip Sherwell in New York and Tim Shipman in Washington
3:20am BST 16/09/2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/16/
wiran116.xml
Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that
President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to
place America on the path to war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph
has learnt.
Dick Cheney ('The Man') with George W Bush
Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing
targets in Iran, amid growing fears among serving officers that
diplomatic efforts to slow Iran's nuclear weapons programme are
doomed to fail.
Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has
begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could
lead to a military showdown with Iran.
Now it has emerged that Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state,
who has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, is prepared to
settle her differences with Vice-President Dick Cheney and sanction
military action.
In a chilling scenario of how war might come, a senior intelligence
officer warned that public denunciation of Iranian meddling in Iraq
- arming and training militants - would lead to cross border raids
on Iranian training camps and bomb factories.
A prime target would be the Fajr base run by the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Quds Force in southern Iran, where Western
intelligence agencies say armour-piercing projectiles used against
British and US troops are manufactured.
Under the theory - which is gaining credence in Washington security
circles - US action would provoke a major Iranian response, perhaps
in the form of moves to cut off Gulf oil supplies, providing a
trigger for air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities and even
its armed forces.
Senior officials believe Mr Bush's inner circle has decided he does
not want to leave office without first ensuring that Iran is not
capable of developing a nuclear weapon.
The intelligence source said: "No one outside that tight circle
knows what is going to happen." But he said that within the CIA
"many if not most officials believe that diplomacy is failing" and
that "top Pentagon brass believes the same".
He said: "A strike will probably follow a gradual escalation. Over
the next few weeks and months the US will build tensions and
evidence around Iranian activities in Iraq."
Possible flash points
Previously, accusations that Mr Bush was set on war with Iran have
come almost entirely from his critics.
Many senior operatives within the CIA are highly critical of Mr
Bush's handling of the Iraq war, though they themselves are
considered ineffective and unreliable by hardliners close to Mr
Cheney.
The vice president is said to advocate the use of bunker-busting
tactical nuclear weapons against Iran's nuclear sites. His allies
dispute this, but Mr Cheney is understood to be lobbying for air
strikes if sites can be identified where Revolutionary Guard units
are training Shia militias.
Recent developments over Iraq appear to fit with the pattern of
escalation predicted by Pentagon officials.
Gen David Petraeus, Mr Bush's senior Iraq commander, denounced the
Iranian "proxy war" in Iraq last week as he built support in
Washington for the US military surge in Baghdad.
The US also announced the creation of a new base near the Iraqi
border town of Badra, the first of what could be several locations
to tackle the smuggling of weapons from Iran.
A State Department source familiar with White House discussions
said that Miss Rice, under pressure from senior counter-
proliferation officials to acknowledge that military action may be
necessary, is now working with Mr Cheney to find a way to reconcile
their positions and present a united front to the President.
The source said: "When you go down there and see the body language,
you can see that Cheney is still The Man. Condi pushed for
diplomacy but she is no dove. If it becomes necessary she will be
on board.
"Both of them are very close to the president, and where they
differ they are working together to find a way to present a
position they can both live with."
The official contrasted the efforts of the secretary of state to
work with the vice-president with the "open warfare between Colin
Powell and Donald Rumsfeld before the Iraq war".
Miss Rice's bottom line is that if the administration is to go to
war again it must build the case over a period of months and win
sufficient support on Capitol Hill.
The Sunday Telegraph has been told that Mr Bush has privately
promised her that he would consult "meaningfully" with
Congressional leaders of both parties before any military action
against Iran on the understanding that Miss Rice would resign if
this did not happen.
The intelligence officer said that the US military has "two major
contingency plans" for air strikes on Iran.
"One is to bomb only the nuclear facilities. The second option is
for a much bigger strike that would -- over two or three days --
hit all of the significant military sites as well. This plan
involves more than 2,000 targets."
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