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US War with Iran Closer in 2007

comment by Larry Ross, August 18, 2007

This 2005 article by Scott Ritter is still very important because it shows how US media failed to print any news about the many reports of a possible Pentagon pre-emptive air strike against Iran in June 2005. It also shows the appalling anti-UN, pro-war with Iran record of John Bolton who Bush appointed US Ambassador to the UN in 2005.

Ritter, previously a top UN inspector, claimed then, and still claims, that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme, as does Mohammed al- Baradei head of the UN inspection programme. He claims the US tried to get rid of al-Baradei in 2005 because he stuck to this position.

The situation today has advanced to the stage where the US has surrounded Iran with a naval Armada including 3 aircraft carriers and numerous support vessels, and US air bases and aircraft. Most significantly the US has stepped-up it's 'demonise Iran' campaign, with many false accusations of 'helping terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere and killing US servicemen'. Its latest step is to accuse Iran's Revolutionary Guard - Iran's defence force - of sponsoring terrorism. The US has announced sanctions against anyone who deals with Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

   This shows:

1. That the US believes it can invent any lie and any false accusation and have the US media repeat these lies without question and have the public and Congress, the UN and foreign governments believe them.
   
   
2. That it may take any action or impose any sanctions on Iran or others, based on these lies, or punishments will follow.
   
   
3. That any military action the US takes against Iran is fully justified by US lies and must be supported by all who believe in US 'Freedom and Democracy'. Any opposition to this is as Bush says: "helping the terrorists".
   
   
4. That the US is proceeding with it's plan of global domination, regardless of any cost to itself or others. The fate of humanity and our world is of no consequence, unless, or until, the US achieves it's delusional objectives.
   
   
5. That the Bush Administration has it's back to the wall, has committed major war crimes and crimes against the US Constitution, and realises that it's only way out is to start a new war so big that Bush can bury all their crimes by declaring 'A US State of Emergency', imposing a dictatorship and ruling indefinitely, and outlawing dissent and opposition.
   
   
6. That the US is closer to initiating this global disaster than it was in 2005.
   
   
7. Generally, people and governments are passively tolerating and going along with this madness, if not believing Bush lies and accusations.
   

It is a step-by-step process. Like frogs in slowly heating water, people are generally unaware and denying the full reality of what is happening - that their world is being stolen and a series of calamities will follow.

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Sleepwalking to Disaster in Iran

Late last year, in the aftermath of the 2004 Presidential election, I was contacted by someone close to the Bush administration about the situation in Iraq. There was a growing concern inside the Bush administration, this source said, about the direction the occupation was going. The Bush administration was keen on achieving some semblance of stability in Iraq before June 2005, I was told.

The US War with Iran has Already Begun

Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March 2003 invasion and occupation of that country by US forces), but also about the very process that led to war.