Is this my Imagination or scary?

Question

Is it my imagination or does anyone else see some similarities between the arguments for war in Iraq and the present rhetoric by the Bush Administration towards Iran? Does this mean we're gonna be in Tehran next?

Answer 1

Well, I am not a paranoid person, and I am worried about the same thing. I suspect that Iran may be better equipped to fight back, too.

Answer 2

The war in Iraq is a precursor to a war with Iran!

Answer 3

We should have been in Tehran in'79 or 80 and if we go now, there will be more skulls to crack that if we had done it then.

Answer 4

Oh yeah...the Bush war machine is kicking into gear and they will be rolling out the lies to support it.

Answer 5

Unfortunately, YES! They are backing and supplying the insurgents, we have no other choice.

Answer 6

I think we will bomb Iran and it will piss a lot of people off.

Answer 7

I don't believe it is your imagination, and yes, we should all be very, very afraid.

Answer 8

no its not your imagination and yes were going to bomb Iran.
Bush's news slogan

Bomb,bomb,bomb,-bomb,bomb Iran

Bring It On

Answer 9

To answer your question, I offer an overview that is oftentimes forgotten. The tribal people of the Middle East had not risen above their neolithic differences to align and form a lasting union of tolerance among themselves, as other nations of the world already had, when greedy foreigners descended upon those lands and began to plunder the oil there. Royalty and tribal elites were bribed. And, the CIA was used by U.S. oil interests, including those belonging to the Bush family, to deliberately destabilize the region for control and to prevent the people in the Middle East from uniting and controlling the oil themselves. Halliburton had the contracts to build the Al Qeada training camps. Our new Secretary of Defence, Gates, was the man assigned to teach the Al Qeada forces how to fight. Bush's oil company, Arbusto, is business partners with the Bin Laden family and, as a gesture of friendship, gave Osama's brother, Salem the Houston Gulf Airport in Texas. Bush and his family and his associates significantly helped to create the terrorists that our soldiers fight today. And, they deliberately contributed to the chaos and suffering of innocent people there. The people of the Middle East, betrayed by their corrupted leaders and weakened by foreign powers, failed to rise to the realities of the 20th century in time for the 21st. And, their future is grim. Middle Eastern oil production peaks in 2012 and ends in 2070. The plunder of Middle Eastern oil is now a desparate piggy-fest of who gets control of the remaining oil there. The societies there, so long destabilized, have disintegrated into episodic chaos and heightened religiosity as the quality of leadership plummeted. Foreign and local elite oil interests, concerned about security for their pipelines and oil fields now that factions of local power mongers, freedom fighters and religious fanatics threaten to disrupt the efficient flow of oil out of the land, placed foreign troops, including those from UK and U.S., in the region to ensure enough, but only just enough, stability to get the oil out. Many U.S. soldiers there now report that all they do is guard oil fields and a flow of oil profits that go to only a few people in the world. Even the plunder has grown chaotic with an estimated 500,000 barrels of oil going "missing" every day, securing someone's power in the future as oil begins to run out. Bush marches through the region and wants to invade Iran now to lock up the pipeline routes. He is asking this week for another $10.6 billion dollars just for Afghanistan. He has not said what he wants that money for, though. And, he refuses to state his "plan" for Iraq. He just says he has one. In order to have an initial foothold for the plunder march through the region, the U.S. pays Isreal $30,000 every year bribe for every man, woman and child, plus, has given them weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons which the Isrealis have recently threatened (then denied) to use against the Iranians. Those are the only WMD known in the region aften ten years of searching for more. The search for WMD is a propaganda ploy to convince easily frightened U.S. taxpayers to keep supporting the "search". It is a ploy because arms dealers and their activities are well known by U.S. intelligence. As a matter of fact, many of the arms dealers who sell weapons in the Middle East are associates and friends of Cheney and Bush who believe in the business of war profits. Now, with a Democratic Congress and worldwide disgust for Bush and Cheney's lying and plundering and unspeakably irresponsible plundering of our own nation's financial security while racking up the largest national debt in the history of mankind, there may be some reasonable approach that will be considered and some way to help the people of those regions who have been disarmed and are now at the mercy of roving gangs of religious fanatics and other factions. Bush stated during the Presidental debates that "there would be NO nation building" there, though. And, yesterday, he stated that he would make all the decisions about this war. He refuses to listen to the will of the American people or to our Congress. Remember, Bush does not represent the American people. He represents the oil interests and war profiteers. He and his gang have done nothing but destabilize and weaken the United States. Bush has aligned himself and his interests in the U.S. with the Christian Evangelicals, 40 million strong, whose leadership reported last fall in "Faith and Nation" that they advocate for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government if their religious agenda is not made into legislation. And, they are preparing to fight their neighbors. See the Jesus Camp video. Bush is contributing to the creation of even more terrorists in these Evangelical fanatics. Bush and his family supported Saddam when it suited them. They support whomever goes along with them or is most easily bribed. They support the Shiites now because they seem the most easily "managed" and exploitable or amenable to the "Big Picture". That may change from day to day, depending upon the vagaries of the chaos. To truly support our troops there, to do what's right, we need to get them out of that chaos. That chaos is a crime that the World Court will hear someday. It is a crime, not a war. Our soldiers did not cause the chaos. They are not responsible for fixing that mess. Our soldiers mean well. But, they are not wanted and their presense only makes matters worse, makes the chaos there worse, makes the chances worse for those people to rebuild something themselves from the chaos. The healing for them will not start until we leave. The violence will not stop until the people themselves chose another, wiser way to swim with sharks.

Answer 10

No no . Its just a typo