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Thread ID: 15410 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2004-10-22
2004-10-22 19:49 | User Profile
[font=Arial][size=4]A Bush pre-election strike on Iran 'imminent'[/size][/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][font=Arial][size=3][color=#000000]White House insider report "October Surprise[/color][/size][/font][color=#000000][size=3][font=Arial]"[/font][/size][/color][font=Arial][size=3][color=#000000]imminent[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=3][color=#800000] By Wayne Madsen[/color] [/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=3]According to White House and Washington Beltway insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose the presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated plans to launch a military strike on Iran's top Islamic leadership, its nuclear reactor at Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, and key nuclear targets throughout the country, including the main underground research site at Natanz in central Iran and another in Isfahan. Targets of the planned U.S. attack reportedly include mosques in Tehran, Qom, and Isfahan known by the U.S. to headquarter Iran's top mullahs. [/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=3]The Iran attack plan was reportedly drawn up after internal polling indicated that if the Bush administration launched a so-called anti-terrorist attack on Iran some two weeks before the election, Bush would be assured of a landslide win against Kerry. Reports of a pre-emptive strike on Iran come amid concerns by a number of political observers that the Bush administration would concoct an "October Surprise" to influence the outcome of the presidential election. [/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=3]According to White House sources, the USS John F. Kennedy was deployed to the Arabian Sea to coordinate the attack on Iran. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld discussed the Kennedy's role in the planned attack on Iran when he visited the ship in the Arabian Sea on October 9. Rumsfeld and defense ministers of U.S. coalition partners, including those of Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Iraq, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Poland, Qatar, Romania, and Ukraine briefly discussed a very "top level" view of potential dual-track military operations in Iran and Iraq in a special "war room" set up on board the aircraft carrier. America's primary ally in Iraq, the United Kingdom, did not attend the planning session because it reportedly disagrees with a military strike on Iran. London also suspects the U.S. wants to move British troops from Basra in southern Iraq to the Baghdad area to help put down an expected surge in Sh'ia violence in Sadr City and other Sh'ia areas in central Iraq when the U.S. attacks Iran as well as clear the way for a U.S. military strike across the Iraqi-Iranian border aimed at securing the huge Iranian oil installations in Abadan. U.S. allies South Korea, Australia, Kuwait, Jordan, Italy, Netherlands, and Japan were also left out of the USS John F. Kennedy planning discussions because of their reported opposition to any strike on Iran. [/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=3]In addition, Israel has been supplied by the United States with 500 "bunker buster" bombs. According to White House sources, the Israeli Air Force will attack Iran's nuclear facility at Bushehr with the U.S. bunker busters.The joint U.S.-Israeli pre-emptive military move against Iran reportedly was crafted by the same neo-conservative grouping in the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office that engineered the invasion of Iraq. [/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=3]Morale aboard the USS John F. Kennedy is at an all-time low, something that must be attributable to the knowledge that the ship will be involved in an extension of U.S. military actions in the Persian Gulf region. The Commanding Officer of an F-14 Tomcat squadron was relieved of command for a reported shore leave "indiscretion" in Dubai and two months ago the Kennedy's commanding officer was relieved for cause. [/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=3]The White House leak about the planned attack on Iran was hastened by concerns that Russian technicians present at Bushehr could be killed in an attack, thus resulting in a wider nuclear confrontation between Washington and Moscow. International Atomic Energy Agency representatives are also present at the Bushehr facility. In addition, an immediate Iranian Shahab ballistic missile attack against Israel would also further destabilize the Middle East. The White House leaks about the pre-emptive strike may have been prompted by warnings from the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency that an attack on Iran will escalate out of control. Intelligence circles report that both intelligence agencies are in open revolt against the Bush White House. [/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=3]White House sources also claimed they are "terrified" that Bush wants to start a dangerous war with Iran prior to the election and fear that such a move will trigger dire consequences for the entire world. [/size][/font]
[font=Arial][size=3][color=#800000]Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist. He served in the National Security Council (NSA) during the Reagan Administration and wrote the introduction to Forbidden Truth. He is the co-author, with john Stanton of "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II." His forthcoming book is titled: "jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops, and Brass Plates." Madsen can be reached at [email="Wmadsen777@aol.com"]Wmadsen777@aol.com[/email]
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2004-10-22 22:15 | User Profile
Bush is loony; it could happen
[QUOTE]According to White House and Washington Beltway insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose the presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated plans to launch a military strike on Iran's top Islamic leadership, its nuclear reactor at Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, and key nuclear targets throughout the country, including the main underground research site at Natanz in central Iran and another in Isfahan. Targets of the planned U.S. attack reportedly include mosques in Tehran, Qom, and Isfahan known by the U.S. to headquarter Iran's top mullahs. [/QUOTE]
2004-10-25 06:38 | User Profile
Yes, he is loony but I am going to hope this is just too over the top.
2004-10-25 18:43 | User Profile
Nope...ain't gonna happen. Granted Pres. Bush would like to again flex his cowboy muscles but his handlers have him tethered pretty good I think.
ANOTHER war when Junior Bush's two wars are going so badly? I doubt it. Besides, it's diplomacy we're pushing these days, no?
2004-10-25 18:49 | User Profile
Hope you are right Arjurg for that would give Iran time to actually build something that will stop the Zionist in their tracks from taken over the Middle East.
2004-10-26 14:02 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Knekkeben]According to White House and Washington Beltway insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose the presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated plans to launch a military strike on Iran's top Islamic leadership, its nuclear reactor at Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, and key nuclear targets throughout the country, including the main underground research site at Natanz in central Iran and another in Isfahan.
Bush is certainly insane, evil and ignorant enough to commit such a vile act of treacherous stupidity. But I think Cheney, and the neo-"conservatives" who actually make these sorts of decisions, are not likely to got that route. I don't care what any "internal polling" may have to say on the question; the people are sick of this suicidally insane, imperialist misadventure in Iraq. If Bush starts a much, [B]MUCH** bigger war with Iran (and there will be hundreds, if not thousands of U.S. miliary personnel dead almost immediately if he does), the American people are going to rise up like an electoral army, and states like Kansas and Idaho will wind up in play. Kerry would be assured of something close to 400 votes in the Electoral College, if not more, and lame duck President Dennis Hastert would become a very real possibility in the face of a Congress that would be so angry that impeachment articles would be submitted for consideration to the House Judiciary Committee within about a week or so. There's just no way this can possibly be.
HOWEVER, that doesn't mean this story is BS either. Perhaps they are simply planning to move up the attack on Iran, in the event Kerry is victorious seven days hence (as he shall be), and plan to use their last 10 weeks or so in office to throughly enmesh the United States, Israel, Britain (whether they like it or not; their troops are not more than a few score miles from the Iranian border and they WILL be targeted by the modern Iranian military) and the rest of the coalition partners (and perhaps not just the ones in Iraq; Iran might very well strike at - in fact, I tend to assume they would do so - the various coalition forces in Afghanistan as well) in a disastrous tar baby of a war with Iran. I suspect, if this story has any meaning, other than perhaps some arcane attempt at disinformation, that I may have just revealed it. I guess we'll find out....
If we do go to war with Iran, I'm sure many members of this forum will be dropping out in subsequent months, as they are quietly arrested and housed in some sort of federal detention center in Utah or North Dakota (unless, that is, the federal government is too worried about rounding up all our Muslim immigrant neighbors to deal with their Western critics; wouldn't it be a neat irony if the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 was the only thing that kept us from being tortured, sexually humiliated and eventually buried out in the Mojave?)
[QUOTE=Knekkeben]According to White House sources, the USS John F. Kennedy was deployed to the Arabian Sea to coordinate the attack on Iran. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld discussed the Kennedy's role in the planned attack on Iran when he visited the ship in the Arabian Sea on October 9. Rumsfeld and defense ministers of U.S. coalition partners, including those of Albania, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Iraq, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Poland, Qatar, Romania, and Ukraine briefly discussed a very "top level" view of potential dual-track military operations in Iran and Iraq in a special "war room" set up on board the aircraft carrier.
Sure they did. That list, with the possible and rather unlikely exceptions of Poland and Ukraine, reads like a veritable list of those countries whom we would NEVER entrust with such sensitive information. Those first three, the ones that all start with "A," man, you gotta be kidding me! If and when we go to war with Iran, we won't be providing any heads ups to the tyrants in Tirana, for crying out loud!
[QUOTE=Knekkeben]America's primary ally in Iraq, the United Kingdom, did not attend the planning session because it reportedly disagrees with a military strike on Iran....U.S. allies South Korea, Australia, Kuwait, Jordan, Italy, Netherlands, and Japan were also left out of the USS John F. Kennedy planning discussions because of their reported opposition to any strike on Iran.
Well, that part certainly rings true!
[QUOTE=Knekkeben]London also suspects the U.S. wants to move British troops from Basra in southern Iraq to the Baghdad area to help put down an expected surge in Sh'ia violence in Sadr City and other Sh'ia areas in central Iraq when the U.S. attacks Iran as well as clear the way for a U.S. military strike across the Iraqi-Iranian border aimed at securing the huge Iranian oil installations in Abadan.
Interestingly enough, I heard confirmation of the above, that the U.S. wants the British to transfer many of its forces in Basra up to Baghdad, in order to free up U.S. forces (ostensibly for the purpose of launching yet another offensive on Fallujah, or one of those many other places we don't control and certainly never will), while listening to the radio on Saturday night, I believe it was.
[QUOTE=Knekkeben]The joint U.S.-Israeli pre-emptive military move against Iran reportedly was crafted by the same neo-conservative grouping in the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office that engineered the invasion of Iraq.
Who the heck else would engage in such a damn fool execise? Douglas Feith, call your (treasonous) office (of special plans).
[QUOTE=Knekkeben]White House sources also claimed they are "terrified" that Bush wants to start a dangerous war with Iran prior to the election and fear that such a move will trigger dire consequences for the entire world.
Its nice to see some White House operatives are apparently neither diabolical, blood-thirsty degenerates or imbecilic morons incapable of locating their own feet. Who'd have ever guessed? You know, this may be going over some sort of line, although I am quite confident that the First Amendment does protect my inalienable right to express such an opinion (yet I still apologize if I'm violating any OD rules of conduct here), but if George W. Bush permits his office to be used by the Jews for the purpose of initiating a Third World War (which is what is going to begin the day we attack Iran; 9/11 was merely a precursor to a potentially much larger conflict, much as the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1936 was a precursor to the Second World War, rather than an actual part of it), then all those White House staff people are dead anyway, as its only a matter of time before Washington goes the way of Hiroshima, albeit probably with a larger warhead (at least we won't have the Holocaust Museum anymore).
Since they have nothing to lose anyway, why doesn't one of those seemingly worthless shills finally discover that they were, indeed, born as men, and plunge a letter opener into Bush's throat? It probably wouldn't do any good, as Cheney and Wolfowitz are running the show anyway, but they are the ones who claim to be terrified of Bush's warmongering. Their families could well die as a result of said warmongering. Morally, one could argue it would be an entirely legitimate case of national and personal self-defense. Make no mistake, I am NOT advocating anyone initiate violence against President Bush. It just amazes me that American manhood has fallen to such a low state that these yuppie sychophants who work in the White House seriously believe that reckless, idiot, fratboy pig Bush is on the verge of bringing on Armageddon, and yet they won't do a damn thing to stop him! When and where did they forfeit their little round set of regenerative organs?