U.S. attack on Iran may prompt terror

[Wise Doubter]

Experts say strikes on nuclear facilities could spark worldwide retaliation

As tensions increase between the United States and Iran, U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes on its nuclear sites by deploying its intelligence operatives and Hezbollah teams to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12114512/


"popcorn - peanuts. Git yer hot dogs here"

[Trevelyan]

1. stopwaroniran. org

For the past year, the growing tensions mounting between the US, Israel, and Iran are reaching a point where military action against Iran is w/in months of becoming reality. The repercussions are terrifying as such military action could involve countries such as China and Russia as they share massive energy/economic interests w/ Iran. The most likely scenario we would face would be the collapse of the US economy as the combination of a massive rise in oil prices and a run on the US dollar would surely be the weapon many countries would use to fight back against a preemptive US or Israeli strike.

For a collection of articles and resources on this subject you can visit this link:

http://reseaudesign.com/research/iran/iran_summery.html

I'm starting up a petition which I will be sending out to as many members of Congress as possible. I'm asking for help to get this signed by as many people, possible in the next month. Send it to as many people you can.

http://www.petitiononline.com/n0war1rn /

Also, here is another petition you can sign from another group:
http://stopwaroniran.org/statement.shtml

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[yurbud]

3. got it backwards--fake attack will be used as an excuse to invade

Why would Iran launch a terrorist attack BEFORE Bush invades when they know he is waiting for the slightest excuse?

How can people fall for this shit AGAIN?

[Selatius]

4. If we attack, the world must stop us in the name of humanity.

Enough people have died for greed. There has got to be an end to this bloodshed somewhere, sometime. The lessons of WW2 have been forgotten. Fascism, or more concisely Corporatism, was not defeated. It simply went underground and re-emerged in the US.

[Kailassa]

5. How? Get the UN to say "no?" Bunker bomb the White House?

Sorry, but the only argument the Bush admisistration would listen to is violence, and few countries want to actually harm American civilians.

And, for the ones that do, it's easier to just watch America keep stirring the wasp nest.

[megatherium]

6. Of course no one is in a position to bunker-bomb the White House.

There might be another 9/11, but of course that would not modify US behavior except to accelerate its military actions.

Instead, there is only one thing that will stop the US. The American voters must vote out Bush and the war party (which includes many republicans but not a few democrats). This is possible now, although I am not yet totally hopeful this will happen. If the war (or the economy) were to get worse (easily imaginable) and if especially a draft is started, this becomes more possible.

[Kailassa]

8. I totally agree with you.

I just wish there was an anti-war party to vote in.

The recent democrat speech on continuing the war on terrorism makes one wonder if even the combined weight of every American could push the war-machine off its tracks.

[Selatius]

9. I hate to sound cynical, but it seems only a draft would force people...

to get onto the streets. People nowadays are too caught up trying to pay their damn bills or materialistic consumerism. The thought of dying on some distant battlefield is a powerful motivator to action.

[Kailassa]

10. Yes, it seems that, so long as it's happening to someone else,

most people don't care.

A draft could force people to confront the realities of kids being killed and turned into killers.

But I'm sure you'd find any draft legislation would have loopholes built in to it so the rich kids will always be excused from compulsory service.

Ive been told, by republicans, that parents shouldn't complain if their kids get killed, because it's their fault for having children.

[teryang]

7. This is wishful thinking

If the response were only terrorism, then the defense contracting policy wonks would think, "this is wonderful."

The problem is that the response will be along more conventional lines, from embargoes causing economic dislocations, conventional attacks on infrastructure whereever it harms western interests, to direct attacks on US forces deployed in Iraq. The west prefers not to perceive its vulnerability here.