This Needs To Be Our Stance On Iran: Follow The Protocol

[rucky]

And we need to hammer them with this message right now. Any later will be too late.

Follow the Protocol. Attempt direct talks. Attempt brokered talks. Go to the UN, get Security Council Approval and then come back to Congress for a vote. This time everybody will make sure you've got your intelligence right.

Protocol should have been our central arguement in protest of the Iraq war, but criticism of Bush's preemptive war doctrine got muddled in with so many other generic antiwar messages that we never really hammered it home. Now we're faced with Iraq redux, just as anti-Muslim sentiment seems as strong as ever in the West. We need to put the brakes on this, but we need to do it with a simple, unified message that frames the public debate this time.

Follow the Protocol. To the letter. No shortcuts this time. Nothing taken on faith this time.

Seems our Dem leaders are still worried about looking weak, which is why they haven't openly discounted the possibility of war with Iran. We have some power to gain some control as the Neocons try to sell this latest war. String the bastard along. Make him jump through hoops and prove his case like he never had to do for Iraq (or Afghanistan, for that matter). He's going to try to take a short cut to this, and we have to make him look bad without us looking weak.

It's not only about looking weak, it's the possibility that Iran may actually be a threat. We can't ignore that or it will come back to bite us on the ass - especially if we see some aggression on Iran's part.

I'm praying it will not come to war. We need to prevent it, and I'm pretty sure that if we steer the debate to the UN first, we can end up with a peaceful solution - even with Bolton's arm-twisting.

We need to show our faith in the UN, to make the case that there will be no end-run around the security concil this time. All of our hopes of avoiding an unjust war lie in the security council now.

[DemInDistress]

1. whatever they decide it has to be done before March 26 2006

why you ask? Iran opens its Oil Bourse. I hear it will compete with 2-3 other spot oil markets and will only accept Euros..the end of the US Dollar is near. The collapse of the economy and the days of deep depression will be upon us..sounds rosy !!

[rucky]

2. I'll take hard times over world war any day.

if those are the choices.

[DemInDistress]

3. I'm with you my friend...this lying war in Iraq and Iran will come

back to bite our ass, all the strife and chaos in today's world is to advance an agenda, PNAC !!! Wont work,
its illegal,immoral and unjust. What scares me even more is that if the US economy collapses the idiot king could impose Martial Law and suspend the elections and our bill of rights..hm

[Roho]

4. oil burse is a red herring

Designed imo to appeal to the "as long as I'm alright jack" crowd that balk at preemption for tangential national security threats.

Today oil is being traded by countries without the dollar in direct bi-lateral trade deals.

For example Chavez has made a deal with china to trade oil for consumer goods manufactured in china.

[DemInDistress]

5. come back in 46 days or less and tell me if this herring

is red..chavez went off the Dollar and what was his gain. If you remember he was overthrown by lunatics of the bush crime family latin division,,we'll see if the herring is red on or before March 26 2006.,,

[rucky]

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