YOUR PART in the Iran War.---PANIC? Why shouldn't you?

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Your Part in the Iran War - Panic. Why You Shouldn't
by leveymg
Wed Feb 21, 2007 at 09:22:58 AM PST

In recent days, this and other progressive sites on the Web have gone berserk over reports of imminent U.S. attack on Iran. We are all nattering away, all gloom and dread that it’s the Iraq War all over again. Most of us seem to believe there’s nothing we can do to stop it. In that, we are behaving exactly as expected.

We’re so busy being hysterical that we’ve forgotten the obvious. The American and British Left have been targeted by a highly coordinated disinformation program, the object of which is to inflame international tensions and lend credence to a carefully calculated strategy of escalation with Iran.

The present wave of propaganda has been timed to coincide with today’s meeting of the UN Security Council, at which the next round of possible sanctions against Iran are to be discussed.

But, if we refuse to play our role according to the script, there won’t be a war with Iran. This is why, and what we can do to prevent it.

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This is Bush-Cheney and Blair’s last stand in the Middle East, and they have a role for us in mind. They and their political parties have been ruined by the failure and expense of the War in Iraq. They see a run-up to another war as their last chance for distraction, and if their bluff works, Phoenix-like out of the ashes, possible political salvation. The actual fact of war with Iran is an entirely different matter, as their General staffs recognized years ago.

A real, protracted war with Iran would be an unmitigated disaster for all involved. There will be no quick, surgical strikes, akin to that which destroyed a single Iraqi reactor at Osirik in 1981. Instead, Iran’s nuclear program will require repeated strikes against more than 300 widely-dispersed and hardened targets. Those strikes would inevitably lead to a full-scale ground and naval engagement with Iran and its allies, a conflict which has a high chance of quick and uncontrollable escalation into a regional nuclear war.

That was the conclusion reached nearly five years ago during war-gaming at the Pentagon, and it holds doubly true today, after the potential weaknesses of American and allied military power have been demonstrated in graphic and horrifying detail. Images of $5 million M1A2 main battle tanks blackened and burned out by cheap and easily constructed roadside bombs and ubiquitous RPGs have been a stunning reminder of the hubris and folly of ground warfare in Asia, particularly of optional wars. http://www.fototime.com/...
Your Part in the Iran War - Panic. Why You Shouldn't
by leveymg
Wed Feb 21, 2007 at 09:22:58 AM PST

In recent days, this and other progressive sites on the Web have gone berserk over reports of imminent U.S. attack on Iran. We are all nattering away, all gloom and dread that it’s the Iraq War all over again. Most of us seem to believe there’s nothing we can do to stop it. In that, we are behaving exactly as expected.

We’re so busy being hysterical that we’ve forgotten the obvious. The American and British Left have been targeted by a highly coordinated disinformation program, the object of which is to inflame international tensions and lend credence to a carefully calculated strategy of escalation with Iran.

The present wave of propaganda has been timed to coincide with today’s meeting of the UN Security Council, at which the next round of possible sanctions against Iran are to be discussed.

But, if we refuse to play our role according to the script, there won’t be a war with Iran. This is why, and what we can do to prevent it.

More from "Daily Kos" here.....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/21/113627/955

And then this.......
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=269286&mesg_id=273615

And this.......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=277535&mesg_id=278563