Get Ready: Big Push For Liberals To Support Iran War This Fall

[Purveyor]

By M.J. Rosenberg - September 5, 2009, 9:49PM

I hear that the war-with-Iran crowd is determined that Israel attack Iran this fall and that the United States give its blessing. Check out this column from Friday by American emigre and rightist Caroline Glick who writes for the Jerusalem Post.

In the column called "Time's Up on Iran," the Netanyahu confidante writes, "The question then is whether Israel has the ability to effectively attack Iran even if the US opposes such a strike. Based on open source material, the answer to this central question is yes, Israel can launch an effective strike against Iran....With each passing day, Iran moves closer to the bomb and closer to initiating war on its terms. The international community will do nothing to preempt this danger. Israel must act. Fighting a war on our terms is eminently preferable to fighting one on Iran's."

But the lobby is determined that America support an Israeli strike if Israel decides to "go." Israel needs US permission to fly over Iraqi airspace which George W. Bush refused to give (Cheney was furious). The lobby (and its media acolytes) hopes Obama will yield on that point, pushed as he will be by key Congressional Democrats (themselves galvanized into action by the lobby). Check out the schedule on AIPAC's upcoming "Summit" (will Reagan and Gorby be there) to see where its head is at.

In fact, plans are underway for a major effort led by groups such as The Israel Project and AIPAC to get liberals to back an attack should sanctions or negotiations fail. The campaign will stress the recent post-election horrors, the abuse of gays, and other actions by the Iranians that appall liberals. It's a gimmick, of course. These people don't care about human rights in Iran. I mean, the organization is called the "Israel Project" not the "Iran Project."

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[tsuki]

1. No. Will not. nt

[polichick]

2. Fewer and fewer people think we should even be Afghanistan...

Iran would be a pretty hard sell. Americans are already fed up with Israel for its behavior toward Palestinians.

[Purveyor]

3. That would be me. Get the hell out of Iraq also. Enough is enough.

[polichick]

5. Me too. I think the Department of Defense should get back into the business of...

...defending the United States, including borders and ports ~ and let undercover and highly-trained law enforcement agents team up with experts from allied countries to pursue terrorists and training camps.

[yurbud]

7. Since someone who dared question 9/11 story was just fired, it is likely Obama wouldn't

ask too many questions if some terrorist incident happened and all the evidence pointed to Iran (and was planted by our allies and the usual off-the-book spooks who fabricated things like the Niger letter).

[still_one]

4. It isn't going to happen, this is just a propaganda piece. In fact it is much more likely that

negotiations and talks will be taking place in the foreseeable future

[Howardx]

6. aipac and the israel project are tainted in most liberals eyes

i dont see them making much headway personally. "support israel killing more innocents" tough sell.