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Petraeus Testimony Will Signal Iran Attack

by Paul Craig Roberts



On Saturday, April 5, the London Telegraph reported that "British officials gave warning yesterday that America’s commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran’s intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian military facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment."

The neocon lackey Petraeus has had his script written for him by Cheney, and Petraeus together with neocon warmonger Ryan Crocker, the US governor of the Green Zone in Baghdad, will present Congress next Tuesday and Wednesday with the lies, for which the road has been well paved by neocon propagandists such as Kimberly Kagan, that "the US must recognize that Iran is engaged in a full-up proxy war against it in Iraq."

Don’t expect Congress to do anything except to egg on the attack. On April 3 the International Herald Tribune reported that senators and representatives have made profits from their investments in defense companies totaling $196 million. Rep. Ike Skelton, the Democrat chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is already on board with the attack on Iran. The London Telegraph quotes Skelton: "Iran is the bull in the china shop. In all of this, they seem to have links to all of the Shi’ite groups, whether they be political or military."

All Skelton knows is what the war criminal Bush regime tells him. If Iran really does have all these connections, then it behooves Washington to cease threatening Iran and to make nice with Iran in order to stabilize Iraq and extract the US from the nightmare.

Reporting from Tehran on April 4, Reuters quotes Mohsen Hakim, whose father, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leads the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, an ally of the Maliki US puppet-government in Iraq: "Tehran, by using its positive influence on the Iraqi nation, paved the way for the return of peace to Iraq and the new situation is the result of Iran’s efforts."

Instead of thanking Iran and working with Iran diplomatically to restore stability to Iraq, the Bush regime intends to expand the nightmare with a military attack on Iran. Ryan Crocker was quick to dispute Hakim’s report that Iran had used its influence to end the fighting in Basra. Crocker alleged that Iran had started the fighting. The absurdity of Crocker’s claim is obvious as even the neocon US media reported that the fighting in Basra was started by the US and Maliki in an effort to clear out the Shi’ite al-Sadr militias. Most experts saw the attack on al-Sadr for what it was: an effort to remove a potential threat to the US supply line from Kuwait in the event of a US attack on Iran.

Crocker alleges that the rockets dropping on the Green Zone during the Basra fighting were made in 2007 in Iran. As should be obvious even to disengaged Americans, if Iran were to arm the Iraqi insurgency, the insurgents would have modern weapons to counter US helicopter gunships and heavy tanks. The insurgents have no such weapons. The neocon lie that Iran is the cause of the Iraqi insurgency is just another Bush regime lie like the lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and connections to al Qaeda and the lie that the Taliban in Afghanistan attacked the US.

The Bush regime will tell any lie and orchestrate any event in order to "finish the job" in the Middle East.

"Finishing the job" means to destroy the ability of Iraq, Iran, and Syria to provide support for the Palestinians and for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon against Israeli aggression. With Iraq and Iran in turmoil, Syria might simply give up and become another American client state. With Iraq and Iran in turmoil, Israel can steal the rest of the West Bank along with the water resources in southern Lebanon. That is what "the war on terror" is really about.

The entire world knows this. Consequently, the US and Israel are essentially isolated. The US can only count on the support that it can bribe and pay for.

At the NATO-Russian summit in Bucharest, Romania, on April 4, Russian President Putin said: "No one can seriously think that Iran would dare attack the U.S. Instead of pushing Iran into a corner, it would be far more sensible to think together how to help Iran become more predictable and transparent."

Of course it would, but that is not what the warmonger Bush regime wants.

Perhaps the British government has derailed the plot to attack Iran by leaking in advance to the London Telegraph the disinformation Cheney has prepared for Petraeus and Crocker to deliver to the complicit US Congress next Tuesday and Wednesday. On the other hand, the US puppet media is likely to bury the real story and to trumpet Petraeus' claims that Iran has, in effect, already declared war on the US by sending weapons to kill US troops in Iraq.

By next Thursday we will know from how the Petraeus-Crocker dog and pony show plays in the US Congress and media whether the Bush Regime will commit yet another war crime by attacking Iran.

April 7, 2008

Paul Craig Roberts [send him mail] a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, has just been released by Random House.

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An attack on Iran would truly signal the beginning of the end for the shards that are left of American Democracy, America's reputation, and Global stability as well. It would make invading Iraq seem like a chess move by the late Bobby Fischer. Of course this whole eight years may actually be the most brilliant coordinated effort to disempower and disembowel the American Democracy that any powermongers in history have ever succeeded in advancing.

Naive question, and pure fantastic speculation on my part of course, but in this day and age would it be possible to protest an action like this thru emailing every conceivable internet site related to the reckless powers that be? I mean Critical Mass does it to the roadways not that I necessarily support their strategies.

Could we have a protest day every Tuesday say or even every month where people used every possible legal way to voice there opinion via phones, faxes and internet? Have set days when every U.S. citizen who is against the war to send emails to every Senator/Congressman/Government official/Government website that is publically accessible? Would this have a desirable effect?

I know Russia attacked Estovia like this last year and Estovia was able to defend itself after a few days and I'm not suggesting something "illegal" of course but I truly believe traditional forms of protest are utterly worthless and without effect in this day and age.

What is most astonishing and most challenging as well is that a large part of the American Populace actually buy the idea that we are protecting American citizens from "terrorism". This is analogous to a man whose wife is raped and he goes out and buys two new locks for his front door and makes every one who comes to the front door show their i.d. but leaves the back door unlocked and all the windows open and the basement door flapping and then he goes out on a gun buying spree for 7 years until he has amassed a huge arsenal of rifles, machine guns, ak47s, hand grenades all of which he fires off in the woods constantly to show how powerful and unafraid he is, but all the g*ddamn windows in his house are still open and anyone who want to can walk in his backdoor and of course, he can't even remember his wife's name anymore he's so obsessed with "protecting" her.

If all the money we invested in this overseas madness had been invested in securing domestic ports of entry and creating backup emergencies services, and more money for fire and police departments, and decentralized power grids, etc etc etc ad nauseum infinatum a g*ddamn flea couldn't penetrate our borders at this point and if a disaster did happen AND IT WILL HAPPEN OF COURSE we would actually be prepared to save real American lives.

Nuff said.............I'm disgusted and I'm going to go take a bath.

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Nuff said.............I'm disgusted and I'm going to go take a bath.

I couldn't hit "Gratitude" twice or I would have.

Few people in northern California know how "three strikes" legislation got passed in California. They all kinda think Polly Klaas had something to do with it, but that's about it.

Three Strikes was held up in committee for years because all the legislators knew what a terrible idea it was and none of them wanted to be blamed for putting such a mess into law.

Then the whole Polly Klaas thing came along and two right wing jerk radio personalities from Los Angeles, by the names of John and Ken, decided they wanted to see Three Strikes passed into law. So they got on the radio for three hours every day and gave out the phone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses and every other contact method for every California legislator that had anything to do with the legislation. They gave out the Governor's numbers, the Lt. Governor's, the Attorney General's and every body who had any influence in law enforcement. They called upon their hundreds of thousands of listeners to call, fax, email and basically bring the entire communication system in Sacramento to its knees until Three Strikes was passed.

It took two weeks.

-Jeff

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Polly Klaas's father had something to do with it. He provided the mediagenic victim-frontman to galvanize the effort.

I had not heard of the talk radio aspect before -- that's interesting. And yes, three strikes has turned out to be more of a problem than a fix.

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Few people in northern California know how "three strikes" legislation got passed in California. They all kinda think Polly Klaas had something to do with it, but that's about it.