We are the global equivalent of an out of control junkie, addicted to a frivolous gas guzzling lifestyle and needing greater and endless economic growth and material consumption to sustain our materialistic lifestyle.

What makes us an especially dangerous junkie is that we are armed to the teeth and have no problem attacking others and killing people to sustain economic growth and feed the military-industrial complex.

All addicts end up turning into something quite ugly unless they change their habits and it also helps to make amends to those they have hurt to feed their addictions.
I doubt the U.S will make the necessary changes in time and will end up an out of control junkie careening into disaster.
I think it is no coincidence that both our President and VP have had histories of substance abuse and socio-pathic tendencies.

I haven’t believed anything our government has said, in more years than I can count. We would all need our collective heads examined if we did. The problem is Bush of course. He and the others have lied so often and so consistently about everything, that they are not believed regarding anything.
We don’t have all those ships in that area for nothing. One day the missile will be launched. And Bush will start a third war, with no end in the other two he started.

The end result of all this hatred for us, will be another attack. It won’t matter who is in charge. Bush has fixed it for us, that Democrat or Republican, there is no safety for this country anymore. We are thought of as a ROGUE COUNTRY now. And the hatred manifested against us will not die for decades.

And when we get hit again with Obama in office, Bush will say, “see the Democrats cannot protect us.” And people are so very easily led and lied to, they will agree. Forgetting of course that the last attack was on Republican watch. And the hatred from the Iraq debacle will be the cause of another attack.

–Cheryl Cotterill

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=2

…the borders between operations are not always clear: in Iran, C.I.A. agents and regional assets have the language skills and the local knowledge to make contacts for the JSOC operatives, and have been working with them to direct personnel, matériel, and money into Iran from an obscure base in western Afghanistan.

Well, here is another one of those non-denial denials. I bet MR. Crocker is counting on the general public’s lack of knowledge of the region

Iraq is not the only US-friendly country that borders Iran. American forces could be operating from Turkey, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. There is no shortage of options.

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, reacting to Hersh’s story on CNN’s Late Edition, said: “I can tell you flatly that U.S. forces are not operating across the Iraqi border into Iran.”

And I can tell you flatly that I don’t believe a word that comes out of anyone’s mouth if they are a part of this administration.

I consider Iran a threat on many levels. But I don’t support invasion or Nationbuilding of any Mideast country.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

How about a little diplomacy?

The United States is more of a threat to the rest of the world than is Iran.

Earlier this year, a militant Ahwazi group claimed to have assassinated a Revolutionary Guard colonel, and the Iranian government acknowledged that an explosion in a cultural center in Shiraz, in the southern part of the country, which killed at least twelve people and injured more than two hundred, had been a terrorist act and not, as it earlier insisted, an accident. The Iranians have begun publicly blaming the U.S., Great Britain, and, more recently, the C.I.A. for some incidents. The agency was involved in a coup in Iran in 1953, and its support for the unpopular regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi—who was overthrown in 1979—was condemned for years by the ruling mullahs in Tehran, to great effect.. It RALLIES SUPPORT for the regime and shows the people that there is a continuing threat from the ‘Great Satan.’ ” In (retired Air Force Colonel Sam) Gardiner’s view, the violence, rather than weakening Iran’s religious government, may generate SUPPORT for it.

This comment is like any used by someone who manipulates words in order to lie in such a way that they can deny everything later. The necessary follow-up question is, “Then which border is it that U.S. forces are crossing to have operations into Iran?” If he won’t state that it is not happening anywhere, then you have the real answer.

1. I support covert ops in Iran.
June 29th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Why?

The Washington Post recently quoted Randy Scheunemann, the McCain campaign’s national-security director, as stating that McCain supports the White House’s position ( not talking to Iran), What Obama is proposing, Scheunemann said, “is unilateral cowboy summitry.”

COWBOY SUMMITRY! How Brazen.

Given almost 8 years of Bush/Cheney we know everything has been the opposite of what they have publicly stated and this is no different.

Therefore,
I can tell you flatly that U.S. forces are operating across the Iraqi border into Iran.

That is why we are in Iraq.

We want to destabilize and worry all the regimes in this region with our 150,000 troops and 150,000 mercenaries.
This has the added advantage of keeping China and India out that much longer.
As Mc Cain has said there will be other wars.

Defense and energy industries are at the center of all of this.
They are driving this policy and the tail is truly wagging the dog.

President Obama will have a hard time putting an end to this.

In anticipation of a new government in this country the Oil/Defense companies have are quickly consolidating their positions with the new government in Iraq excluding all other vendors and head quartering in Dubai.

The new drilling sites oddly correlate with those 25 – 35 projected new military bases.

It has always been about the oil.

The Administration may have been willing to rely on dissident organizations in Iran. The use of Baluchi elements, for example, is problematic. “The Baluchis are Sunni fundamentalists who hate the regime in Tehran, but you can also describe them as Al Qaeda,” The irony is that we’re once again working with Sunni fundamentalists, just as we did in Afghanistan in the nineteen-eighties.” Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is considered one of the leading planners of the September 11th attacks, are Baluchi Sunni fundamentalists.

Slow learners!