Showdown Over Iran Coming After Labor Day?
We can stop the coming war with Iran – but concerned Americans must act quickly
by Justin Raimondo
August 31, 2007
More rumors of war with Iran are circulating here (via Juan Cole), with inside scuttlebutt from inside the neoconservative network:
"They [the source's institution] have ‘instructions' (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don't think they'll ever get majority support for this – they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is plenty."
This comes via Barnett R. Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at New York University's Center on International Cooperation, and a leading expert on Afghanistan, who has it from "a friend who has excellent connections in Washington and whose information has often been prescient." According to Rubin's anonymous sibyl – or is that seer? – we can look forward to "a big kickoff on September 11."
antiwar.com
If we attack Iran this year, it will be the icing on the cake of 50+ years of naked American agression by the U.S. since WW2. We invade and occupying at will. What a shame our country has become. Our founding fathers wrote the Constitution is such a manner so the power to declare war lay with the Congress, and now the President just ignores the Constitution and makes war as he sees fit. Bush calls himself "The Decider". |
