…Remember the Maine!…

Indeed…remember the Gulf of Tonkin?

And we have an extra carrier strike force sitting off Iran’s coast…why?

I give it 6-8 weeks before that carrier is attacked and either sunk outright, or nearly so, killing many American servicemen. The public will cry out in outrage, and Congress will pass an Emergency Authorization of Military Force against Iran.

(Sound familiar?)

Either this will happen, or Israel will engage Iran, probably after a false-flag attack perpetrated by Mossad, to make it appear as if the Iranians have attacked Israel.

Either way, the US will be committed. War with Iran is inevitable. It’s the only way this administration can hold onto their power and escape criminal prosecution.

We Americans had better brush up on our history (even the less palatable bits) because we’re repeating it right now.

Trip,

…Remember 9/11!

The point of such a resolution is to put every congressman on record as to whether they are willing to vote to protect and uphold their constitutional responsibility to vote for a war.

Anyone who doesn’t, regardless of party, should be either 1) impeached or 2) voted out of office for dereliction of duty.

The second reason is to draw a line in the sand. If Bush ignores the resolution and attacks Iran anyway, or stick a signing statement on it and attacks anyway, that would amount to a “smoking gun” reason for impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate. They could forget all the other issues and just run with that ball, completing the process in a week or two so that this brown streak on the toilet paper of history could be eliminated, once and for all from the body politic.

‘In the bathtub of history known as the Iraqi invasion, the truth will only be found by changing the soap’. – Zimzone

Bush has us all bending over.
Time to change the soap & clean up this mess.

‘You can lead a madman to water, but you can’t make him think’
-Zimzone

The ONLY guarantee we have of not becoming another dark ages england or a new rome is the guarantee that the executive cannot wage war to gain popularity or to corner the people into a fight they must win to survive. This is what kings and emperors always did. They started preemptive wars for political gain until they finally had the power to dissolve the Peoples power in the senate or Congress or whatever. This is why the Constitution reserves that right for the Congress ONLY. The War Powers Act needs to be reevaluated to see if it violates the Constitution. If it comes down to a fight between the Consitution and the War Powers Act the only acceptable winner is the Constitution.

In any country in which a single man can start a WAR that country is not free. If a single man can cast an entire nation into WAR, which is not easily undone, then that country is ripe for a dictator.

Comment by beijair — January 16, 2007 @ 11:19 am

Ummmmmm…936?

Interesting how nine days earlier, the AP mentions that the carrier is headed out to warn Iran, then on the 13th it’s to support Iraq?/??

Look for the bombs to begin falling 4-8 weeks after Bush’s State of the Union Address.

I don’t think this administration is just going to preemptively bomb Iran…one of two things will happen to build public support first:

1. The U.S.S. Enterprise (the extra carrier Chimpy deployed to the Gulf) will be attacked and sunk, either by Iranian forces, or, more likely, Mossad masquerading as Iranian forces.

– or -

2. Israel and Iran will initiate hostilities. It is unlikely that Israel will overtly initiate the hostilities…it is far more likely that, if Iran fails to oblige them, they will create another false-flag attack, implicating the Iranians, and use that as the excuse to declare war. The U.S., ever the ‘ally’ of Israel, will hasten to their aid.

More hints, nuance, pieces of the puzzle coming together…

Time to DUMP the federal reserve and return to silver/gold standard

It’s over and it’s hunting in high places time

The article is here:

http://counterpunch.org/roberts01152007.html