The next War, Iran.

[soldier101]

Let's keep the masses in fear, make them vote for the Pucks.

WASHINGTON -- Michael A. Ledeen, a former consultant to the National Security Council and to the U.S. State and Defense Departments delivered scathing testimony on Iran to the House Committee on International Relations this week, citing his fear "that the obsession with the nuclear question often obscures the central policy issue: that the Islamic Republic has waged war against us for many years and is killing Americans every week."

The author of "The War against the Terror Masters" held little back from the lawmakers with such polemics as, "They want us dominated or dead. There is no escape from their hatred, or from the war they have waged against us. We can either win or lose, but no combination of diplomatic demarches, economic sanctions, and earnest negotiations, can change that fatal equation. They will either defeat us, or perish."

The former commissioner of the U.S.-China Commission warned the lawmakers that in his opinion the terror war in Iraq is a replay of the strategy that the Iranians and the Syrians used in the 1980s to drive the U.S. and its French allies out of Lebanon:

"Those Americans who believed it was possible to wage the war against terrorism one country at a time, and that we could therefore achieve a relatively peaceful transition from Saddam's dictatorship to an elected democracy, did not listen to the many public statements from Tehran and its sister city in jihad, Damascus, announcing in advance that Iraq was about to become the ‘new Lebanon.'"

The expert outlined a worst-case scenario that he suggested might unfold once Iran managed to put nuclear warheads on their intermediate range missiles:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/3/9/204023.shtml?s=lh

Votw foe the puke and loose your vioce. I will continue for what is right!!!!!!!!!!!

[northofdenali]

1. Glad you visit these sites so I don't have to.

Rummy + Ledeen = MidEast War

[AnnieBW]

2. The War Machine Is Gearing Up

*'s poll numbers are down, so the war machine is starting to gear up again. Never mind that anybody with half a brain knows that attacking Iran would be the Mother of All Bad Ideas. Yeah, let's get MORE Muslims pissed off at us! Right! Our Army and Marines are stretched to the breaking point. That leaves the Navy and Air Force to bomb Iran.

One thing that scares the crap out of me is that I read somewhere (can't find the link) that the Air Force (?) took the nuclear warheads out of some ICBMs and put in conventional warheads. They think that they'll be able to impact further into the ground than the "bunker-busters" used in Iraq. This would, in theory, be able to reach the hardened Iranian nuclear bunkers. Yeah, let's launch a bunch of aging missiles at hardened targets. I can think of multiple ways that this would go wrong.

World War III, anyone?

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Ledeen is one of the PNACers, isn't he?

This is what they've been pushing for since '97.