TvNewsLIES.org:
From the events of 9/11 to the ever worsening state of Iraq; from global warming to the pending end of public television, the damage being done to the world at the hands of the Bush administration, or under the watchful eyes of the Bush administration is real. Does it really matter whether or not the Bush cabal is causing these problems on purpose or as a result of unwavering ideology? Does it matter whether or not they believe that their actions will result in good things for us or if they are trying to destroy us on purpose? Do we have to believe the Downing Street Memos or the mounting evidence of 9/11 complicity at this point or can we just simply stop this nightmare regardless? At this point people need to stop the madness; we can not wait for the results of “investigations”; it will be too late for all of us!
Think about it!
Friday, February 23, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Carter says majority in U.S. support views in book
Carter is right-on.
A majority of Americans do agree with him.
Carter says majority in U.S. support views in book - Yahoo! News:
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Jimmy Carter defended his new book on the Middle East on Thursday against sharp criticism from Jewish groups and said a majority of U.S. citizens including many Jews supported its main proposals.
Letters he received since the publication in November of 'Palestine: Peace not Apartheid' were largely supportive and included support from many readers who described themselves as U.S. Jews, said the former president.
Jewish groups have expressed outrage at the book, arguing that its title and contents could undermine perceptions of
Israel's legitimacy.
Carter, 82, was addressing a forum at Atlanta's Emory University in which he detailed his involvement in the Middle East culminating in the Camp David Accords in 1978. He gave a robust defense of the book and responded to written questions.
'Israel will never find peace until it is willing to withdraw from its neighbor's land and to permit the Palestinians to exercise their basic human and political rights,' he said.
Neither will we, Jimmy.
Prison Growth Could Cost Billions Over the Next Five Years, Report Finds
Could it be, we have too many stupid laws, that most people have no intention of actually obeying, in the first place, unless they just want to.
It is time for this crap to stop! We could save gazillions if prisons were reserved for violent offenders and offenders who hurt children; not pot smokers.
Prison and punishment have become big business, and we all know what happens when the bottom-line feeders get involved in anything, especially when they get government contracts. It's like winning the damn lottery!
PND - News - Prison Growth Could Cost Billions Over the Next Five Years, Report Finds:
By 2011 America will have more than 1.7 million men and women in prison, costing taxpayers as much as $27.5 billion more than what is currently spent on prisons, a new report from the Public Safety Performance Project at the Pew Charitable Trusts finds.
Public Safety, Public Spending: Forecasting America's Prison Population 2007-2011 (52 pages, PDF), estimates that without policy changes by the states, one in every 178 U.S. residents will live in prison by 2011. In particular, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, and Vermont can expect to see their prison systems grow by a third or more over that period unless they change their sentencing and release practices. And barring reforms, Colorado, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming can expect their inmate populations to increase by about 25 percent.
Prepared by the D.C.-based JFA Institute, the report estimates that new inmates will cost states an additional $15 billion for prison operations over the five-year period, while construction of new prison beds will cost as much as $12.5 billion. A significant driver of the expected prison population increase is the cumulative impact of state policy decisions such as mandatory minimum prison sentences, reduced parole grant rates, and high recidivism rates, especially among people on parole or probation.
It is time for this crap to stop! We could save gazillions if prisons were reserved for violent offenders and offenders who hurt children; not pot smokers.
Prison and punishment have become big business, and we all know what happens when the bottom-line feeders get involved in anything, especially when they get government contracts. It's like winning the damn lottery!
PND - News - Prison Growth Could Cost Billions Over the Next Five Years, Report Finds:
By 2011 America will have more than 1.7 million men and women in prison, costing taxpayers as much as $27.5 billion more than what is currently spent on prisons, a new report from the Public Safety Performance Project at the Pew Charitable Trusts finds.
Public Safety, Public Spending: Forecasting America's Prison Population 2007-2011 (52 pages, PDF), estimates that without policy changes by the states, one in every 178 U.S. residents will live in prison by 2011. In particular, Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, and Vermont can expect to see their prison systems grow by a third or more over that period unless they change their sentencing and release practices. And barring reforms, Colorado, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming can expect their inmate populations to increase by about 25 percent.
Prepared by the D.C.-based JFA Institute, the report estimates that new inmates will cost states an additional $15 billion for prison operations over the five-year period, while construction of new prison beds will cost as much as $12.5 billion. A significant driver of the expected prison population increase is the cumulative impact of state policy decisions such as mandatory minimum prison sentences, reduced parole grant rates, and high recidivism rates, especially among people on parole or probation.
Small Towns Bear Biggest War Death Burden
We already knew this, but it is nice to have a study that confirms common sense.
Small Towns Bear Biggest War Death Burden - News:
The Census Bureau said 56 percent of the population in 2005 lived in towns under 25,000 and in unincorporated areas, but it could not provide the number of people living only in communities of less than 25,000. The 2000 census showed 16 percent of the population lived in unincorporated rural areas.
Many of the hometowns of the war dead aren't just small, they're poor. The AP analysis found that nearly three quarters of those killed in Iraq came from towns where the per capita income was below the national average. More than half came from towns where the percentage of people living in poverty topped the national average.
Some are old factory towns like McKeesport, once home to U.S. Steel's National Tube Works, which employed 8,000 people in its heyday. Now, residents' average income is just 60 percent of the national average, and one in eight lives below the federal poverty line.
On a per capita basis, states with mostly rural populations have suffered the highest fatalities in Iraq. Vermont, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Delaware, Montana, Louisiana and Oregon top the list, the AP found.
Small Towns Bear Biggest War Death Burden - News:
The Census Bureau said 56 percent of the population in 2005 lived in towns under 25,000 and in unincorporated areas, but it could not provide the number of people living only in communities of less than 25,000. The 2000 census showed 16 percent of the population lived in unincorporated rural areas.
Many of the hometowns of the war dead aren't just small, they're poor. The AP analysis found that nearly three quarters of those killed in Iraq came from towns where the per capita income was below the national average. More than half came from towns where the percentage of people living in poverty topped the national average.
Some are old factory towns like McKeesport, once home to U.S. Steel's National Tube Works, which employed 8,000 people in its heyday. Now, residents' average income is just 60 percent of the national average, and one in eight lives below the federal poverty line.
On a per capita basis, states with mostly rural populations have suffered the highest fatalities in Iraq. Vermont, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Delaware, Montana, Louisiana and Oregon top the list, the AP found.
The New GOP Attack Machine
Oh, it's going to get a lot worse than this:
The New GOP Attack Machine - Politico.com:
If you suddenly start hearing a lot about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., having a “calculating nature” and “political baggage,” or being a “lifelong liberal,” it won’t be a coincidence. Similarly, get ready to see Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., strafed for his “short political timeline” (a euphemism for “rookie”), for being “arrogant and insulated” and a liberal rubberstamp. John Edwards? “New negative tone,” “running to the far left” and “hypocritical.”
The put-downs – some clever, some blunt -- are part of an attack-o-matic that the Republican National Committee is encouraging its supporters to use in preparing for their appearances on cable television and talk radio. The 69-page playbook, posted on the national party’s Web site (GOP.com) on Wednesday as “Meet the Real Dem Candidates,” devotes 10 pages each to Clinton, Edwards and Obama; nine each to Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware and Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut; and seven each to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack.
The New GOP Attack Machine - Politico.com:
If you suddenly start hearing a lot about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., having a “calculating nature” and “political baggage,” or being a “lifelong liberal,” it won’t be a coincidence. Similarly, get ready to see Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., strafed for his “short political timeline” (a euphemism for “rookie”), for being “arrogant and insulated” and a liberal rubberstamp. John Edwards? “New negative tone,” “running to the far left” and “hypocritical.”
The put-downs – some clever, some blunt -- are part of an attack-o-matic that the Republican National Committee is encouraging its supporters to use in preparing for their appearances on cable television and talk radio. The 69-page playbook, posted on the national party’s Web site (GOP.com) on Wednesday as “Meet the Real Dem Candidates,” devotes 10 pages each to Clinton, Edwards and Obama; nine each to Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware and Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut; and seven each to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack.
Sen. Edwards: If Iraq War Vote Was Wrong, 'Be Honest About It'
Right on, John!
Sen. Edwards: If Iraq War Vote Was Wrong, 'Be Honest About It' - Politico.com:
John Edwards said today that he apologized for his 2002 vote approving the invasion of Iraq because he realized about two years ago he should not have given George W. Bush the authority to wage war.
“I thought it was important, if I believed that, to take responsibility for it and take that responsibility publicly,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in a telephone interview.
Edwards, who finished fourth in the 2004 New Hampshire Democratic primary and was John Kerry’s running mate in the general election, spoke to UnionLeader.com on his way to private meetings in Knoxville, Tenn.
Lieberman Says War Vote Could Prompt Party Switch
Let him go, and take away his Committee assignments, now!
Lieberman Says War Vote Could Prompt Party Switch - Politico.com:
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut told the Politico on Thursday that he has no immediate plans to switch parties but suggested that Democratic opposition to funding the war in Iraq might change his mind.
Lieberman, a self-styled independent who caucuses with the Democrats, has been among the strongest supporters of the war and President Bush’s plan to send an additional 21,500 combat troops into Iraq to help quell the violence there.
'I have no desire to change parties,' Lieberman said in a telephone interview. 'If that ever happens, it is because I feel the majority of Democrats have gone in a direction that I don't feel comfortable with.'
Jeb Bush says the truth is useless; valued only by the poor.
Even after all these years of the Dark Dynasty, they are still shocking in their utterances. They open their mouths and their true colors come out like projectile vomit.
I have to wonder if their heads spin around while they spit this crap out of their mouths?
Wasn't it Poppy who once opined that the U.S. could actually win a "limited nuclear war?"
Tony Snow and White House Reporters Slam The Blogosphere // buzzflash.net:
The truth is useless. You have to understand this right now. You can't deposit the truth in a bank. You can't pay rent with the truth. You can't buy groceries with the truth. The truth is a useless commodity that will hang around your neck like an albatross-all the way to the homeless shelter. And if you think that the million or so people in this country that are really interested in the truth about their government can support people who would tell them the truth, you got another thing coming. Because the million or so people in this country that are truly interested in the truth don't have money.
Jeb Bush 1986"
Tony Snow and White House Reporters Slam The ‘Hateful,’ ‘Polarized’ Blogosphere
Did anyone believe that the establishment types like the blogosphere?
Of course, they don't.
It has become competition, on one level, in that there are some serious journalists at work in the sphere, and others are far more entertaining than anything the MSM could possibly pull off.
Tony Snow thinks the blogosphere is hateful? Damn, does he ever read Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin?
Think Progress » Tony Snow and White House Reporters Slam The ‘Hateful,’ ‘Polarized’ Blogosphere:
In a press round-table at the National Press Club tonight, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow led a discussion with White House correspondents about the impact of the internet on their respective jobs. Their conclusion? They don’t like being challenged by blogs.
NBC News’ David Gregory bemoaned how political coverage has “become so polarized in this country…because it’s the internet and the blogs that have really used this White House press conferences to somehow support positions out in America, political views.” Tony Snow admitted he sometimes reads blogs (”I’ll occasionally punch it up”) only to find “wonderful, imaginative hateful stuff that comes flying out.”
Newsweek’s White House correspondent Richard Wolffe added, “[Bloggers] want us to play a role that isn’t really our role. Our role is to ask questions and get information. … It’s not a chance for the opposition to take on the government and grill them to a point where they throw their hands up and surrender.”
Brits: Mission Unaccomplished; We are out of here!
In other words, Cheney is still delusional
The Washington Monthly:
The British military is approaching 'operational failure,' former defense staff chief Charles Guthrie warned this week.
'Because the British army is in essence fighting a far more intensive counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, there's been a realization that there has to be some sort of transfer of resources from Iraq to Afghanistan,' said Clive Jones, a senior lecturer in Middle East politics at the University of Leeds, who has closely followed Britain's Iraq deployment.
'It's either that, or you risk in some ways losing both,' he said. 'It's the classic case of 'Let's declare victory and get out.'
As Nuclear Deadline Passes, US and Iran Trade Accusations of Bombing Involvement
We are at the most dangerous peak we have ever been, since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
This is a serious as it get, folks.
Democracy Now! | As Nuclear Deadline Passes, US and Iran Trade Accusations of Bombing Involvement:
The White House has dismissed a suggestion from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran would close its nuclear facilities as long as Western nations did the same. His comments came as a deadline set by the UN for Iran to freeze its uranium enrichment program expires today. Meanwhile Iran has accused the US of backing a bomb attack that killed 11 Revolutionary Guards, just one week after the US accused Iran of supplying bombs targeting US troops in Iraq. We speak with retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner. [includes rush transcript]
CNN POLL: Strong majority of Americans want Congress to cut off funding for Iraq escalation
A Clear Majority!
Sirotablog: CNN POLL: Strong majority of Americans want Congress to cut off funding for Iraq escalation: "CNN POLL:
Strong majority of Americans want Congress to cut off funding for Iraq escalation
I don't yet have the details or cross-tabs of the poll itself, but anchor John Roberts just said this on CNN this morning:
'Is Congress willing to cut off funding in order to end the war in Iraq? The latest CNN-Opinion Research Corporation poll shows 60 percent of Americans want Congress to block money from going to war -- President Bush's planned troop increase, the 21,500 new troops for Iraq. Thirty-eight percent are against the resolution, or at least believe that Congress should vote against the resolution.'
So now we know that the strong majority of Americans want the U.S. Congress to use its real power - not non-binding charades - to stop the escalation of the war in Iraq. We have state legislatures moving forward aggressively demanding that Congress use its real power. So the questions are simple: why is Congress refusing to even debate binding legislation? Why is the debate only about non-binding measures? And why do Democrats keep going out of their way to say they won't do anything real when it comes to funding the war, when in fact the majority of America wants them to use the power of the purse to stop the madness
Military amputee uninvited from Bush event because the press would see him with no legs
OMG!
Military amputee uninvited from Bush event because the press would see him with no legs:
Perks and stardom do not come to every amputee. Sgt. David Thomas, a gunner with the Tennessee National Guard, spent his first three months at Walter Reed with no decent clothes; medics in Samarra had cut off his uniform. Heavily drugged, missing one leg and suffering from traumatic brain injury, David, 42, was finally told by a physical therapist to go to the Red Cross office, where he was given a T-shirt and sweat pants. He was awarded a Purple Heart but had no underwear.
David tangled with Walter Reed's image machine when he wanted to attend a ceremony for a fellow amputee, a Mexican national who was being granted U.S. citizenship by President Bush. A case worker quizzed him about what he would wear. It was summer, so David said shorts. The case manager said the media would be there and shorts were not advisable because the amputees would be seated in the front row..
'Are you telling me that I can't go to the ceremony 'cause I'm an amputee?' ' David recalled asking. 'She said, 'No, I'm saying you need to wear pants.' '
David told the case worker, 'I'm not ashamed of what I did, and y'all shouldn't be neither.'
When the guest list came out for the ceremony, his name was not on it.
Perjury Libby hearing casts cloud over Cheney
That cloud is the equivalent of a political mushroom cloud!
....and it had damn well better not be ignored!
Perjury Libby hearing casts cloud over Cheney - Financial Times - MSNBC.com:
As a Washington jury starts its deliberations on Thursday on whether Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, the former chief of staff of Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, is guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice, he is not the only one whose reputation has come under suspicion.
'There is a cloud over the vice-president,' Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor, told the jury on Tuesday. 'He sent Libby off to the meeting with Judy [Judith Miller, a New York Times reporter] where Plame was discussed. That cloud is something that we just can't pretend isn't there.'
Bush and Al Qaeda
More Bushlies........
Bush and Al Qaeda - International Herald Tribune:
Recent descriptions by intelligence officials of Al Qaeda's renewed control of terrorist networks and training camps in the tribal areas of Pakistan contrast with previous administration depictions of isolated leaders reduced to acting as little more than a source of ideological inspiration. The new picture seems to belie the triumphalist tone of President George W. Bush, who said a few days before last November's congressional elections, 'Al Qaeda is on the run.'
Which is it, then, a hounded, faltering Al Qaeda or an enemy that has regrouped and become a greater threat than ever? The answer is crucial not only for national security but for America's open society.
An obvious part of the answer is that Bush has played politics with the Qaeda threat. When it suits his needs, he inflates the stateless band of Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri into an existential threat. At other times, Bush boasts about routing bin Laden, passing over in silence his administration's failure to send enough U.S. forces to capture him the caves of Tora Bora five years ago.
Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half
Ok,, but what do we do in the meantime?
Monday view: Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half | Monday View | Columnists | Business | Money | Telegraph:
Within five years, solar power will be cheap enough to compete with carbon-generated electricity, even in Britain, Scandinavia or upper Siberia. In a decade, the cost may have fallen so dramatically that solar cells could undercut oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by up to half. Technology is leaping ahead of a stale political debate about fossil fuels.
Anil Sethi, the chief executive of the Swiss start-up company Flisom, says he looks forward to the day - not so far off - when entire cities in America and Europe generate their heating, lighting and air-conditioning needs from solar films on buildings with enough left over to feed a surplus back into the grid.
The secret? Mr Sethi lovingly cradles a piece of dark polymer foil, as thin a sheet of paper. It is 200 times lighter than the normal glass-based solar materials, which require expensive substrates and roof support. Indeed, it is so light it can be stuck to the sides of buildings.
Monday view: Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half | Monday View | Columnists | Business | Money | Telegraph:
Within five years, solar power will be cheap enough to compete with carbon-generated electricity, even in Britain, Scandinavia or upper Siberia. In a decade, the cost may have fallen so dramatically that solar cells could undercut oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by up to half. Technology is leaping ahead of a stale political debate about fossil fuels.
Anil Sethi, the chief executive of the Swiss start-up company Flisom, says he looks forward to the day - not so far off - when entire cities in America and Europe generate their heating, lighting and air-conditioning needs from solar films on buildings with enough left over to feed a surplus back into the grid.
The secret? Mr Sethi lovingly cradles a piece of dark polymer foil, as thin a sheet of paper. It is 200 times lighter than the normal glass-based solar materials, which require expensive substrates and roof support. Indeed, it is so light it can be stuck to the sides of buildings.
Big Brother is Watching You II
A Must Read:
Texas Kaos :: Update: Big Brother is Watching You II:
Key findings in PBS's report:
- The government is intercepting most emails sent domestically.
- AT&T is collecting most emails and sharing them with the government, specifically the NSA (this is backed up by Klein's documents).
- The NSA spy room at AT&T's San Francisco facility is only accessible to the NSA and AT&T employees cleared by the NSA
- The NSA's interest seems to be in MAE WEST, *the* major hub of American and international internet traffic on the West Coast
- The device installed in San Francisco is capable of intercepting 10 GIGBYTES of data per second. In layman's terms, that means it could go through all the information in all the books in the Library of Congress in 15 minutes.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
What We Can Learn from Heroes Like Bobby Kennedy
There is no single human being, who has lived in my lifetime, I miss more than Bobby Kennedy, right now.
The light grew bright and then, flickered for a time...
Who killed our heroes?
Everything else has gone to hell. Perhaps, it is time we examine at the real truth about our generation and our times.
If a generation is judged by its heroes, then my generation has little of which to be ashamed.
What We Can Learn from Heroes Like Bobby Kennedy:
Did anyone actually see 'Bobby'?
I must admit that I did not. I may yet. Right
now, I just can't bear it.
When I think of Bobby, it is as though my heart has been pierced and darkness is approaching.
I have work to do, which I hope will honor him, and the other two of my heroes, long gone from this treacherous dimension.
Heart piercing, while good to a point, cannot be all that helpful when one is busy fighting the good fight, which isn't a fight at all. really, but taxing at times, nonetheless.
In the midst of Oscar buzz, there's little more than a whisper about the film. The critics were, well, critical of the movie for not digging deeper into the character of Robert F. Kennedy, the man my 60-year-old friend called 'the last politician who gave me hope.' But the cinematic story behind the fateful events at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel (where presidential hopeful Kennedy was shot on June 4, 1968) provoked a powerful conversation between my friend and me.
I'm 24. I'm new at this political thing, trying to absorb the current scene like a saturated sponge sweeping across a greasy stove. There's so much, and not much that seems real. And if anything, my generation longs for authenticity.
This is why I was so drawn to my older friend, who had proudly marched in demonstrations, fought for equality in education, and even started a grass-roots women's advocacy organization.
She didn't just bemoan the mistakes of the day. She did stuff, and believed that doing stuff could change the world, in part because Bobby told her it could. His visits throughout the nation -- from rural Mississippi towns to inner-city hovels--had unveiled civil injustices, organized crime, and the national poverty crisis, opening the eyes and hearts of a young generation.
The light grew bright and then, flickered for a time...
Who killed our heroes?
Everything else has gone to hell. Perhaps, it is time we examine at the real truth about our generation and our times.
If a generation is judged by its heroes, then my generation has little of which to be ashamed.
What We Can Learn from Heroes Like Bobby Kennedy:
Did anyone actually see 'Bobby'?
I must admit that I did not. I may yet. Right
now, I just can't bear it.
When I think of Bobby, it is as though my heart has been pierced and darkness is approaching.
I have work to do, which I hope will honor him, and the other two of my heroes, long gone from this treacherous dimension.
Heart piercing, while good to a point, cannot be all that helpful when one is busy fighting the good fight, which isn't a fight at all. really, but taxing at times, nonetheless.
In the midst of Oscar buzz, there's little more than a whisper about the film. The critics were, well, critical of the movie for not digging deeper into the character of Robert F. Kennedy, the man my 60-year-old friend called 'the last politician who gave me hope.' But the cinematic story behind the fateful events at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel (where presidential hopeful Kennedy was shot on June 4, 1968) provoked a powerful conversation between my friend and me.
I'm 24. I'm new at this political thing, trying to absorb the current scene like a saturated sponge sweeping across a greasy stove. There's so much, and not much that seems real. And if anything, my generation longs for authenticity.
This is why I was so drawn to my older friend, who had proudly marched in demonstrations, fought for equality in education, and even started a grass-roots women's advocacy organization.
She didn't just bemoan the mistakes of the day. She did stuff, and believed that doing stuff could change the world, in part because Bobby told her it could. His visits throughout the nation -- from rural Mississippi towns to inner-city hovels--had unveiled civil injustices, organized crime, and the national poverty crisis, opening the eyes and hearts of a young generation.
US 'Iran Attack Plans' Revealed
In Case you missed it........
US 'Iran Attack Plans' Revealed:
US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure, the BBC has learned.
It is understood that any such attack - if ordered - would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control centres.
The US insists it is not planning to attack, and is trying to persuade Tehran to stop uranium enrichment.
The UN has urged Iran to stop the programme or face economic sanctions.
But diplomatic sources have told the BBC that as a fall-back plan, senior officials at Central Command in Florida have already selected their target sets inside Iran.
That list includes Iran's uranium enrichment plant at Natanz. Facilities at Isfahan, Arak and Bushehr are also on the target list, the sources say.
Will the United States Attack Iran?
W.H spokespeople and aligned punditry have been careful to say that there are no plan for an invasion of Iran.
They haven't said that there is no plan, at all. anywhere, for strikes on Iran.
Will the United States Attack Iran?: "
Will the United States use armed force against Iran? Hardly any foreign policy issue is hotter right now. American planes are reported to be patrolling along the border between Iraq and Iran, and U.S. forces have been authorized to kill Iranian agents in Iraq.
Two U.S. aircraft carriers are in the Gulf and missile defenses have been installed in Gulf states. The military buildup is either to scare Tehran or to prepare for American attacks on Iran.
Many remember that there was a U.S. military buildup in the Gulf during the autumn of 2002 and the first months of 2003 and that the U.S. attack on Iraq followed in March. Is something similar underway now?
Most commentators note that a large part of the American people would disapprove of more military adventures. Yet many worry that the Bush administration might be tempted to play up Iran's activities as an important reason for the anarchy in Iraq and to reduce the attention to the debacle in Iraq by opening a new front through bombings in Iran.
They haven't said that there is no plan, at all. anywhere, for strikes on Iran.
Will the United States Attack Iran?: "
Will the United States use armed force against Iran? Hardly any foreign policy issue is hotter right now. American planes are reported to be patrolling along the border between Iraq and Iran, and U.S. forces have been authorized to kill Iranian agents in Iraq.
Two U.S. aircraft carriers are in the Gulf and missile defenses have been installed in Gulf states. The military buildup is either to scare Tehran or to prepare for American attacks on Iran.
Many remember that there was a U.S. military buildup in the Gulf during the autumn of 2002 and the first months of 2003 and that the U.S. attack on Iraq followed in March. Is something similar underway now?
Most commentators note that a large part of the American people would disapprove of more military adventures. Yet many worry that the Bush administration might be tempted to play up Iran's activities as an important reason for the anarchy in Iraq and to reduce the attention to the debacle in Iraq by opening a new front through bombings in Iran.
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