Washblog

As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran, its latest target, by the spring...

...An American naval build-up in the eastern Mediterranean has begun. This is almost certainly part of what the Pentagon calls CONPLAN, which is the aerial bombing of Iran. In 2004, National Security Presidential Directive 35, entitled "Nuclear Weapons Deployment Authorisation", was issued...

...for the first time since the most dangerous years of the cold war, the use of what were then called "limited" nuclear weapons is being discussed openly in Washington. What they are debating is the prospect of other Hiroshimas and of radioactive fallout across the Middle East and central Asia. Seymour Hersh disclosed in the New Yorker last year that American bombers "have been flying simulated nuclear weapons delivery missions . . . since last summer"...

...One of Russia's most senior military strategists, General Leonid Ivashov, says the US will use nuclear munitions delivered by cruise missiles launched from the Mediterranean...

...Last November, a majority of the American electorate voted for the Democratic Party to control Congress and stop the war in Iraq.  Apart from insipid speeches of "disapproval", this has not happened and is unlikely to happen.  Influential Democrats, such as the new leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the would-be presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, have disported themselves before the Israeli lobby. Edwards is regarded in his party as a "liberal". He was one of a high-level American contingent at a recent Israeli conference in Herzliya, where he spoke about "an unprecedented threat to the world and Israel [sic]. At the top of these threats is Iran . . . All options are on the table to ensure that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon." Hillary Clinton has said: "US policy must be unequivocal . . . We have to keep all options on the table." Pelosi and Howard Dean, another liberal, have distinguished themselves by attacking the former president Jimmy Carter, who oversaw the Camp David Agreement between Israel and Egypt and has had the gall to write a truthful book accusing Israel of becoming an "apartheid state". Pelosi said: "Carter does not speak for the Democratic Party." She is right, alas....

If you have any doubts that the Usual Suspects over at the White House are going to attack Iran, just read my series, The Usual Suspects, which is simply a gathering of historical facts about the neocons including their detailed plans for the middle east written in the mid 90's, which spelled out the invasion of Iraq to be followed by Israels attack on Lebanon and then attacks on Syria and Iran.  Here are the links:

The Usual Suspects Pt 1: Richard Perle

The Usual Suspects Pt 2: Michael Ledeen

The Usual Suspects P 3: Dr. Stephen Bryen

The Usual Suspects Pt 4: Dick Cheney

The Usual Suspects Pt 5: Paul Wolfowitz