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To: Land Shark who wrote (11324)	1/19/2007 11:43:59 AM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37540

George is doing exactly what Iran has done, he is threatening wildly, he is pushing without any intention of taking out Iran, he is going to let Iranians destroy the Iranian threat, by attacking the Iranians in Iraq, and by making it obvious that If Iranians don't fix this problem, Israel and the US might. It kind of fits in with Olmert's mistake of admitting he might Nuke Iran. In the mean time, Bush needs to make it clear that he is going to wean the US off it's dependence on Middle Eastern oil, so that the Middle Eastern Countries get the message that they could all end up ignored by the US.

To: Land Shark who wrote (11324)	1/19/2007 12:51:25 PM
From: seventh_son	Respond to of 37540

I can see it coming. Iran is being set up as the scapegoat for the failure in Iraq. Heaps of unsubstantiated innuendo are being thrown out about Iranians being behind the attacks on US troops in Iraq -- a rerun of the 2002 Iraq WMD BS, Niger yellowcake lies, etc. Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler that we have to confront or be the Chamberlain-style appeaser strawmen, just like Saddam was. Iran is Bush's "double-or-nothing" plan for the salvaging his mess in the Middle East. The thing is, the people behind all this crap are the ones who made out like thieves when they made this huge mess in Iraq -- the military complex lobbyists testing out and selling tens of billions of dollars in new weapons, the oil company lobbyists looking to be handed on a plate concessions on foreign oil, the Israel lobby looking to have a complete monopoly on military power in the Middle East. Whether Iran is a disaster or not, a lot of people are guaranteed to make a killing (no pun intended), and that's why, as horribly stupid as it might look, the chances are there that it will happen. The lower that oil prices are approaching attack time, the more likely it will happen too, because gasoline pump prices seem a much higher motivater of the US public than worrying about the ethics of wantonly destroying a foreign country.