Reply #44: Gotta disagree with you here, Don. Didn't you notice when all those Patriot anti-missile systems

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got delivered to, and set up in the Green Zone this past winter?

You don't deploy Patriot batteries to protect against mortars and grenades and truck bombs, you put them up for defense against ballistic missiles. Iraqi insurgents don't have ballistic missiles, Iran does.

The Green Zone will be warned on the QT, the public isn't going to know if anyone is being evacuated or not -- if the public were told about a Green Zone evacuation going on, the Iranians would know, too.

The bombing of Iran is going to be a surprise attack, launched with as little warning as possible. The planners KNOW they have catch the Iranian air defenses hard and fast and unaware. They're counting on crippling the Iranian military so badly on the initial bombing run that the Green Zone will be under minimal threat. It IS a fortified zone, after all, with the latest in air defense technology.

And on the other much more cynical hand, a mass casualty event in the Green Zone that could be unequivically pinned on Iran would provide a veritable propaganda bonanza for the Masters of War -- literally a gift from heaven.

I wish we on the left would stop getting bogged down in discussions of whether or not this attack on Iran is going to happen. The fact is, there are alot of really powerful people who WANT it to happen. Who have not stopped working toward making it happen. And who have all the means and power to make it happen any time they damn please -- because NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING TO STOP THEM.

We are watching all the pieces being put into place right before our eyes, pieces being put into place by people whom NO ONE is preventing from doing so.

The point isn't whether it's GOING to happen or not, the point is NO ONE is stopping it from being made possible! And as long as it is possible for them set their plans in motion, at the time of their choosing -- as long as no counterforce exists that would make it NOT possible for them to do so -- then all the arguments about will they or won't they is just a denial mechanism, imho.

They want to, they have the means, and there is NO ONE to stop them. These are the facts. (And, I might add, they are most certainly evil and monstrous enough to do it, besides.)

I'm tired of arguments over whether bushco will really attack Iran. The reality is they want to and they CAN.

I think the question we should asking ourselves is this: These being the facts: They want to, they have the means, and there is NO ONE to stop them, what should we be doing to try to prevent the slaughter of thousands or hundreds of thousands of our fellow human beings by the hands of the madment that rule us?

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