Bush and Iran?

Question

Bush seems to be building up a case against Iran claiming they are providing arms for those fighting the ocupation troops of Iraq.
Do you think Bush and his followers should be much more carefull this time after the drubbing the administration took for the faulty intelligence leading to the 2003 Iraq invasion which has shown Bush to be such a poor President and war leader.

Answer 1

there is no need for us to get involved in Iran, Israel can do its own dirty work.

Answer 2

I wonder where all of you get your information. Do you just read the headlines and not the articles? It is not the country of Iran that is suppying IEDs for terrorist attacks. It is Iranian nationals. This fact allows the headlines to read, "Bush connects terrorist aid to Iran."

Do you remember how the media kept saying there would be a draft in 04 right before the election?
The point is that the media is generally liberal. I wish that people would start understanding this.

Bush has no intention of attacking Iran, but the media would have you believe that because they want to make Republicans look bad. There is nothing wrong with choosing a side, but we all must recognize that a side is being chosen, and that a spin is being put on the truth.

This last bit is going to make some people mad, but it is the truth:
This is a list of some of the suspicious "weapons" found in Iraq. All of these items have been documented.

1 Unexploded Roadside bomb filled with Sarin Nerve Gas

1500 gallons of chemical weapon agents

over 1000 unsecured pieces of radioactive materials ideal for making dirty bombs

1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium

17 chemical warheads, some containing cyclosarin, a nerve agent 5 times more powerful than sarin.

over 500 WMDs from before the first Gulf War in a weapons depository

Are these items the "faulty intelligence" that you are talking about?

Yes, Iraq has not been the war that Bush thought it would be, but the press has not mentioned a single word about these items. I wish they would.

Answer 3

Bush & Cheney need to be very careful about this charge. Who is to say that Iran doesn't have a right to arm Shiites since 80% of the Iraqi population and Iran share the same religion? They have more of a cultural and religious connection than does the US. It also will be no shock if the Saudis also arm the Sunnis. The US made a monumental mistake getting involved in Iraq because now things are unpredictable and it is certain that not just Iran will get involved. Don't be surprised if we find Russian weapons, too.

Answer 4

Anything this administration puts forth as "proof" should be met with the utmost skepticism.

What we saw the other night, when he proposed more war against more "foes" was the madman the last six years have created. This time, in his war against Iran, he doesn't even feel the need for minimal PR, as he did before attacking Iraq. All he is bothering with are signals -- ships moving here, admirals moving there, consulates being raided in this other place. He no longer cares about the opinions of the voters, the Congress, the generals, the press, and he especially disdains the opinions of B/S/and B [Bush Sr, Scrowcroft, Baker]. Thanks to Gerson, he identifies his own little ideas with God (a blasphemy, of course, but hey, there's lots of precedent on this), so there's no telling what he will do.

We can tell by the evidence of the last two months that whatever it is, it will be exactly the thing that the majority of the voters do not want him to do, exactly the thing that James Baker himself doesn't want him to do. The propaganda that Bush's sponsors and handlers have poured forth has ceased to persuade the voters but succeeded beyond all measure in convincing the man himself.

He will tell himself that God is talking to him, or that he is possessed of an extra measure of courage, or he that he is simply compelled to do whatever it is. The soldiers will pay the price in blood. We will pay the price in money. The Iraqis will pay the price in horror. The Iranians will pay the price, possibly, in the almost unimaginable terror of nuclear attack. Probably, the Israelis will pay the price, too.

Little George isn't the same guy he was in 2000, the guy described by Gail Sheehy in her Vanity Fair profile -- hyper-competitive and dyslexic, prone to cheat at games, always swinging between screwing up and making up, hating criticism and disagreement, careless of others but often charming. He is no longer the guy who the Republicans thought they could control (unlike, say, McCain).

The small pathologies of Bush the candidate have, thanks to the purposes of the neocons and the religious right, been enhanced and upgraded. We have a bona fide madman now, who thinks of himself in a grandiose way as single-handedly turning the tide of history. Some of his Frankensteins have bailed, some haven't dared to, and others still seem to believe. His actions and his orders, especially about Iran, seem to be telling us that he will stop at nothing to prove his dominance. The elder Bush(es), Scrowcroft, Baker, and their friends, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gerson, and the neocons have made the monster and in the process endangered the country, the Constitution, and the world, not to mention the sanity of wretches like Jose Padilla (for an analysis of the real reason Gitmo continues to exist,Maybe the bums planned this mess for their own profit, or maybe they planned to profit without mess; maybe some of them regret what they have wrought. However, they all share the blame for whatever he does next.

Answer 5

He had better be for several reasons. As porous as the border is between Iran and Iraq who is to say that it isn't illegal arms dealers getting the arms and selling them to the Iraqis. How do we know for sure that the Iranian government has anything to do with it for sure. How do we know that the arms dealers aren't buying them from say a supply clerk who is stealing them from a supply depot. And the government has nothing to do with it. Or workers at the factory aren't selling them to illegal arms dealers.
There are a lot of ways the Iraqis can be getting the arms without the Iranian government being involved or even knowing about it.
Here is a clue about that. The Iranian government would definitely not be selling them to the Sunni insurgents. And that is who is using them mostly.
Nope we do not have enough hard intelligence for Congress to OK him attacking Iran.

Answer 6

To little too late. Who hasn't asked them selves where are these insurgents getting all those explosives?

Duh, Iran is supplying arms to the insurgents.

As the commander in chief of the military you would think that cutting the resupply line of the enemy would be priority.

Now that he has gotten the drift he wants to attack those that made a fool of him. Hmm, sounds almost like the CIA leak retaliation.

Answer 7

You question would be a legitimate one except for one thing: Bush doesn't care about what people think. He will pursue this war even though it is the worst possible thing to do. I hope I'm wrong, but he is such a pig headed fool, that I fear I am not. Whether he is the "decider" or "decision maker", either way, his decisions are disastrous.

Answer 8

The only thing Bush wants to ensure in Iran is that they stop selling their oil in Euros. This is why Iraq was invaded and this is why Bush is rattling sabres towards Iran.

Answer 9

It is time Bush comes out of the closet. Every Middle East nation he attacks the men of the country end of being sexually assaulted. Bush also is seen hanging out in the Rose Garden of the White House holding hands and kissing men wearing dresses from Saudi Arabia. Bush is head of the world gay mafia.

Answer 10

Bush must be very very careful because Iran is not Iraq and is so stronger than Iraq.
I hate all the wars. hope a peacful world.

Answer 11

Iran sells arms throughout the middle east--Prove that they were the primary supplier of an armorment that killed some of our soldiers directly and then he may have a biatch, but until then, pp up a rope. If Canada were to supply us arms for a fight against a foreign invader--would you fault them?

I didn't think so.