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Kurt Nimmo, Webster Tarpley Issues Dire Iran Attack Warning: ( Listen to MP3 file )
 

A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski: Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a pretext to attack Iran

Brzezinski, who opposed the March 2003 invasion and has publicly denounced the war as a colossal foreign policy blunder, began his remarks on what he called the “war of choice” in Iraq by characterizing it as “a historic, strategic and moral calamity.”

“Undertaken under false assumptions,” he continued, “it is undermining America’s global legitimacy. Its collateral civilian casualties as well as some abuses are tarnishing America’s moral credentials. Driven by Manichean principles and imperial hubris, it is intensifying regional instability.”

Brzezinski derided Bush’s talk of a “decisive ideological struggle” against radical Islam as “simplistic and demagogic,” and called it a “mythical historical narrative” employed to justify a “protracted and potentially expanding war.”

“To argue that America is already at war in the region with a wider Islamic threat, of which Iran is the epicenter, is to promote a self-fulfilling prophecy,” he said.

Most stunning and disturbing was his description of a “plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran.” It would, he suggested, involve “Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a ‘defensive’ US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.” ...

At another point Brzezinski remarked on the conspiratorial methods of the Bush administration and all but described it as a cabal. “I am perplexed,” he said, “by the fact that major strategic decisions seem to be made within a very narrow circle of individuals—just a few, probably a handful, perhaps not more than the fingers on my hand. And these are the individuals, all of whom but one, who made the original decision to go to war, and used the original justifications to go to war.”

None of the senators in attendance addressed themselves to the stark warning from Brzezinski. The Democrats in particular, flaccid, complacent and complicit in the war conspiracies of the Bush administration, said nothing about the danger of a provocation spelled out by the witness.


Why is the US press silent on Brzezinski’s warnings of war against Iran?: ... It indicates that the establishment media is preparing once again, as in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, to serve as a sounding board for the administration’s war propaganda and lies.
 

Soldiers in Iraq view troop surge as a lost cause: The problem, many soldiers say, is that as long as the majority of Iraqis oppose the presence of American troops ... no amount of bullets or bodies will solve the problem.
 

Iraq violence wrapup for Feb. 3, 2007
 

xymphora, Europe plans to make Zionism illegal
(The title is confusing; not the post, however.)


John V. Whitbeck, What 'Israel's right to exist' means to Palestinians: Since the Palestinian elections in 2006, Israel and much of the West have asserted that the principal obstacle to any progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace is the refusal of Hamas to "recognize Israel," or to "recognize Israel's existence," or to "recognize Israel's right to exist."

These three verbal formulations have been used by Israel, the United States, and the European Union as a rationale for collective punishment of the Palestinian people. ...

There is an enormous difference between "recognizing Israel's existence" and "recognizing Israel's right to exist." From a Palestinian perspective, the difference is in the same league as the difference between asking a Jew to acknowledge that the Holocaust happened and asking him to concede that the Holocaust was morally justified. For Palestinians to acknowledge the occurrence of the Nakba - the expulsion of the great majority of Palestinians from their homeland between 1947 and 1949 - is one thing. For them to publicly concede that it was "right" for the Nakba to have happened would be something else entirely. For the Jewish and Palestinian peoples, the Holocaust and the Nakba, respectively, represent catastrophes and injustices on an unimaginable scale that can neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

To demand that Palestinians recognize "Israel's right to exist" is to demand that a people who have been treated as subhumans unworthy of basic human rights publicly proclaim that they are subhumans. ...

Those who recognize the critical importance of Israeli-Palestinian peace and truly seek a decent future for both peoples must recognize that the demand that Hamas recognize "Israel's right to exist" is unreasonable, immoral, and impossible to meet. Then, they must insist that this roadblock to peace be removed, the economic siege of the Palestinian territories be lifted, and the pursuit of peace with some measure of justice be resumed with the urgency it deserves.
 

Haaretz.com, U.S. website [Stratfor.com] : Mossad killed Iranian nuclear physicist
 

Aljazeera.com, Egypt uncovers spying ring operating for Israel (Seems Israel pretty well has blanketed the globe.)
 

Frank Rich, Why Dick Cheney Cracked Up: The answer can be found in the timing of the CNN interview, which was conducted the day after the start of the perjury trial of Mr. Cheney’s former top aide, Scooter Libby. The vice president’s on-camera crackup reflected his understandable fear that a White House cover-up was crumbling. He knew that sworn testimony in a Washington courtroom would reveal still more sordid details about how the administration lied to take the country into war in Iraq. He knew that those revelations could cripple the White House’s current campaign to escalate that war and foment apocalyptic scenarios about Iran. Scariest of all, he knew that he might yet have to testify under oath himself.


February 5, 2003 -
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell Addresses the U.N. Security Council: This transcript includes the slides that were displayed during the remarks.
 

SHOCK admissions by one of Tony Blair's closest aides are set to lead to three people being charged in the Cash For Honours scandal.
( "Tony Blair is Bush's "Mine Canary". When Tony falls, Bush will panic, knowing that his days in office are numbered." )
 

Israeli Government approves new IDF chief: "I have no doubt that he will lead the IDF to deal with everything it has to deal with, to complete fitness and to essential accomplishments for the security of the State of Israel."
 

Eric Margolis, U.S. hell-bent for Iran war: The Pentagon's latest strike plan against Iran includes over 2,300 "high value" targets such as its dispersed nuclear infrastructure and, worryingly, operating reactors, air and naval bases, ports, telecommunications, air defences, military factories, energy networks, and government buildings.

Iran's water and sewage systems, bridges, food storage, and bomb shelters could also be targeted, as Iraq's were in 2001.

The U.S. Treasury has mounted a highly effective campaign to strangle Iran financially, seriously hurting its foreign banking connections, retarding industrial growth and energy production, and impeding foreign investment.

The Bush administration and close ally Israel have sharply intensified their war of words against Iran, claiming, implausibly, Iran poses a nuclear threat to the entire world.

Politicians in Israel are in dangerous emotional overdrive and are making open threats to attack Iran. They claim Iran is a new Nazi Germany and Israel faces a second Holocaust - in spite of its powerful triad of nuclear forces that can survive any surprise attack.

Though UN inspectors find no evidence Iran is producing nuclear weapons, Tehran, like Saddam's Iraq, is being told to prove an impossible negative - that it has no nuclear weapons.

With disturbing deja vu, the U.S. Congress and media are swallowing the administration's torrent of unproven allegations against Iran precisely the way they lapped up its grotesque lies about Iraq.
 

Mahdi Army gains strength by U.S. aid: Shiites enlist in Iraqi army, are trained, armed by U.S. forces
 

"Turkey may conduct a cross border attack to Iraq": "Kurds are systematically taking control of Kirkuk. Possible tension would increase violence. Controlling Kirkuk would strengthen Kurds for autonomy which would direct Turks for a cross border attack"
 

The Truth will set you Free, How AIPAC warps US policy - Walt and Mearsheimer in Action
 

Bush Iraq strategy shifts toward containing Iran
 

And then, there is this decent human being -
Trial of US soldier who refused to go to Iraq opens Monday
 

US: 4 copter losses due to ground fire: The four U.S. helicopters that have crashed in Iraq since Jan. 20 were apparently shot down, the chief American military spokesman said Sunday — the first time the U.S. command has publicly acknowledged that the aircraft were lost to enemy fire.
 

Security Contracts to Continue in Iraq: The Defense Department plans to continue hiring private contractors to provide security at reconstruction projects in Iraq and to train U.S. and Iraqi military officers in counterinsurgency, despite problems with past contracts for such jobs that traditionally have been done by military personnel.
 

(And then there is this)
Russia: U.S. Doesn't Plan To Attack Iran: Foreign Minister Says U.S. Officials Assured Him Extra Forces In Persian Gulf Will Be Used To Stabilize* Region
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* sic
 

Bush says budget will limit non-defense spending

(Yes, George. Really, we have no need of schools, health care, social security, infrastructure, or JUSTICE, concepts all rendered 'quaint' by your administration. But PLEASE keep the military killing machine 'well oiled'.)
 

Kurt Nimmo, Bush, Dems Work Together to Kill Iraqis, Iranians
 

Top secret British army cell recruiting Iraqi insurgent double agents: Its members - servicemen and women of all ranks recruited from all three of the Armed Forces - are trained to turn hardened terrorists into coalition spies using methods developed on the mean streets of Ulster during the Troubles, when the Army managed to infiltrate the IRA at almost every level. Since war broke out in Iraq in 2003, they have been responsible for running dozens of Iraqi double agents.

... [V]olunteers must be able to befriend people they may actually despise, win their trust and persuade them to become agents, which in some cases will mean getting them to inform on friends and relatives. Those who eventually pass the course can expect to be posted to Baghdad, Basra and Afghanistan.
 

STOP HIM BEFORE HE KILLS MORE! There is a serial killer living in the White House.
 

Blair revolt gathers speed
 

22 Prominent U.S. Physicists Ask Congress: Forbid Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear States
 

Police chief Beheading plot being used as distraction from Blair woes


Larisa Alexandrovna, Terra Propaganda in London: So why all the need for extra boots in London streets? Remember, this does not have to make sense. It just has to frighten you. And really, since when is it news that Muslim-American or Muslim-British soldiers are extra vulnerable to attacks? This is common knowledge and should have been of concern before the war started.

But what, get this:
"The decision to arrest the nine suspects is said to have been made after one of them was seen buying a video camera in an electronics shop last weekend."
 

We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition:
Iraqis' Endless Nightmare: We demand that H.E. Ban Ki - Moon should use his good offices to put pressure on the US and Iraqi government forces and remind them that violating international humatirian law is a war crime.
Stop the siege of the cities, and adopt rules of engagements that ensure the Iraqi civilians' safety.
The US forces tactics of heavy handedness, used before and proven to be useless will only exaceberate the civil strife not help bring it to an end.
[ . . . ]

Sign This Petition ! HERE
 

Deployed: Weapons of Mass Destruction -
Iraqi Interior Ministry estimates 1,000 killed in one week
 

U.S. pilots alter tactics after 4 helicopter downings
 

Video (5 min.) Iran: People Like Us -

"It could almost be San Francisco,
Or London,
Perhaps, Paris in October,
Or Munich in the snow.
What about Rome on a Sunday afternoon?
But it's not.
Instead, these are images of Tehran.
A Tehran that we're not supposed to see,
Because we're much more likely to support a war
If we have no sense of our enemies' humanity.
Or, for that matter, their beauty.
Their children,
Their teenagers in love,
Their churches,
The sun flowers and mountains,
Even, their subways.
In fact, all war depends on you and I being convinced
That our enemies are non-human; evil; a threat.
It is a trick that is as old as war itself.
A trick that we have fallen for over and over.
But now, it's 2007 and we can see for ourselves.
We can see that our supposed enemies are just like us.
And we will not let evil men kill them for personal gain.
We don't want your war."
 

Cindy Sheehan, Grannies do Heavy Lifting: Beginning on Monday, February 5th, the Occupation Project is beginning sit-ins in every House Rep and Senator's offices across this nation to demand an end to the war in Iraq by voting "nay" to giving any more money to BushCo for their murderous war.
 

William Hughes, Dr. Makdisi Urges a One State Solution for Palestinians: It is time for the Palestinians to abandon the notion of a two state solution, says Dr. Saree Makdisi. He's an author, professor and frequent commentator on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He says the two state solution plays into Israel's role as the dominant and occupying power. "A one state solution," he argues, would reveal Zionist Israel as a "nakedly racist settler colonial enterprise.. .a state for one people at the expense of another."

(Makes sense to me. Imagine if black South Africans had argued in favor of Bantustans!)
 

Baghdad offensive to begin Monday, say U.S. officers: ... "It's a multiple order magnitude of difference, not just a 30 percent, I mean a couple hundred percent" ...

The plan will involve U.S. and Iraqi forces sweeping the capital's neighborhoods for militants and illegal weapons and then holding cleared areas. But some analysts fear that as in previous crackdowns, militants will simply melt away and wait them out, or strike in areas where they are not deployed.

"If we feel we need to clear Sadr City to bring stability, we will do that. Are there restrictions that will not allow us to do that? Right now there are not," Heckman said.

The Baghdad command center that will begin operations on Monday will be headed by an Iraqi general. However, U.S. troops will not take orders from Iraqi officers.

This time [Iraqi] soldiers will get pay bonuses to come to Baghdad and will be given a finite tour of duty, so they know their deployment will not be open-ended, the American officers said.
 

Coalition phases in Iraqi sailors ( Hmmmm. I see Iraq has a 58 km. coastline. )