A Third Bush War? The U.S. is sending a powerful fleet on maneuvers near the coasts of Iran, as the Bush Administration moves to launch a third war for Israel. Astonishingly, the Iranian government seems to be willfully inciting an attack, with its seizure of British sailors in the Persian Gulf. Why would it do that?
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Perhaps Iran thinks a third war at a time when Dems want one of the two present wars, that in Iraq, ended, will produce a furious drive to impeach Bush. The Bushies, however, seem inclined to call the Democrats' bluff, confident that they can launch any war they want and once they put American troops "in harm's way", the Democrats, and general public, will have no choice but to back the troops, and thus the new war, to the hilt.
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Since the Democrats are at least as supinely and slavishly Zionist as the Republicans, when Israel orders the U.S. to attack Iran, who is to stop the attack from proceeding?
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You may think that the two wars we've already got have so overstrained the military that the military itself would urge restraint. You might be wrong. Yesterday's New York Post carries a column by Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow Peter Brookes, described as "a retired Navy Reserve commander and former deputy assistant secretary of defense", in which he says that altho the Army and Marines may be stretched thin, the Navy and Air Force are in fine shape, and an attack upon Iran could take the form of air attacks launched from the sea, with minimal involvement of ground forces.
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But what if Iran retaliates to air attacks with missile attacks upon U.S. forces in Iraq? and on Israel, the real mover behind such an attack? Does Iran have Exocet ship-sinking missiles? How humiliated would the U.S. Navy be if one of its immense aircraft carriers were sunk, with the loss of several hundred sailors' lives?
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What if Iran sends its army into Afghanistan to attack U.S. forces there, being careful not to attack those of other NATO countries except perhaps Britain, the Bush Administration's chief partner in crime? The U.S. is having trouble enuf controlling Taliban forces that are rebounding even without significant outside assistance. Might a massive Iranian intervention in Afghanistan produce a total rout of the U.S. that could be undone only by a massive 'surge' in that backwater, of, yes, ground forces that the Army and Marines just don't have?
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What if Iran has trained thousands of fanatical young Moslems in terror techniques, and sends them out on Iranian-funded missions against U.S. interests abroad and even at home? How difficult, really, would it be to infiltrate paramilitary terrorists across our all-too-easily-penetrated Mexican border? or from Canada? Iran seems to date to have avoided direct involvement in terrorism against U.S. embassies, consulates, and multinational corporations abroad, and against major symbolic targets within the "Homeland" in order to avoid a direct war with the U.S. But if such a war comes to them anyway, ordered by Israel and carried out by Bush with at least passive connivance by Democratic Zionists, why would Iran not try to do as much damage to the United States as possible? Then we'll be talking not about a decentralized organization of sparsely financed volunteers like Al-Qaeda but a carefully coordinated army of state-sponsored terrorists backed by billions of dollars of equipment and training.
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How will Iraq's Shiite majority react to another war for Zionism, against their co-religionists across the border? Shiite areas of Iraq have been relatively quiet. That could change overnite, as 150,000 Americans surrounded by 27 million angry Iraqis find an enemy on every side.
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The Pentagon and Heritage Foundation, White House and Israel may think a 'surgical strike' kind of Shock and Awe campaign would be a quick and one-sided triumph that would not get us bogged down in a third war that goes on for years, but they've been wrong before, haven't they?
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Worse, an attack upon Iran would lead hundreds of millions of Moslems all over the planet to accept what they had hoped was not the case: that the U.S. Government really does want to make war upon the whole of Islam, and they might be next if they don't do something now. Bush says we are fiting in Iraq so we don't have to fite here. Moslem countries might feel the exact same way: fite in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan now so they don't have to fite in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Indonesia later.
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If you don't want a third war, pressure your Representative and Senators now to cut off the drive toward a third Bush war: http://www.house.gov/, http://www.senate.gov/. Ask them to warn the White House that any attack upon Iran will produce an immediate cutoff of all funding for the military and a move to impeach everyone responsible. Tell the President (comments@whitehouse.gov) to step back from yet another potentially disastrous war. You don't even have to be an American to send email to Congress and the President, and it might be salutary for American politicians to hear from people abroad, especially in allied countries, that reckless militarism threatens U.S. interests of all kinds, all around the world.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 3,242 — for Israel.)


- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 7:20 PM