Iran attack?

[JackRiddler]

I do not believe the US will in the end attack Iran, the co-sponsor of the Iraqi puppet regime. Among the elites the consensus is clearly against that particular insanity.

Then again, they too can be shocked and awed by a small faction, for example by a staged terror event. In the end I don't see Brzezinski and the CFR, no matter how much they know, standing up and declaring, "April 31st* was an inside job!"**

If the US attacks Iran, it may set off World War III, in part depending on the form of the attack. As we know, all the US really has left for an attack is millions of tons of bombs, and whatever exotic weapons they hope to test. These include the "small" nukes that Cheney and Rumsfeld so ached to employ against hard targets (they may indeed have done so in Afghanistan). It may also set off a Stalingrad for US forces in the Middle East. The aircraft carriers, the Gulf bases and obviously the ground troops in Iraq are all vulnerable and surrounded.

Short of revolution in the US (the opposite of popular fascist reaction seems more likely to me) one can't imagine a ceasefire, orderly withdrawal, apologies and tribunals to follow. If American casualties are high, the regime will raise the stakes and raise again until the world backs down in terror, or until it's World War III.

Assuming anything is still standing after the resolution of the immediate hostilities, the new Cold War would follow. EU, Russia, China and pretty much everyone else would join in a front to contain the US. The dollar would fall to pennies on the euro. The US would enter Great Depression times three, probably retreat from its forward positions around the world and turn completely fascist at home. Don't bet on an election in 2008.

This sucky horror scenario brought to you by Hubris and Halliburton International.

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* Yes, that's intentional! Reverse voodoo, okay?

** Then again, I did see a chastened Tucker Carlson last night, newly demoted to "2008 Elections Correspondant," pretend he thought the Iraq invasion was a mistake. Whore. (The pretend part applies to the word "thought.")

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