Alert: Bush Regime Escalates Iran War Preparations

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Over the last month, U.S. preparations for attacking Iran have taken a leap, and war—in the near future—is a real possibility.

In mid-August, the Bush administration announced plans to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a “terrorist organization.” This would be the first time any state organization had been so designated and could be an effort to prepare a "legal" basis for attacking Iran. Former CIA operative Robert Baer wrote in Time (8/18) that "Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on [Iran] maybe within the next six months."

On August 28, Bush made a belligerent case for war to the reactionary American Legion, charging Iran with threatening a "nuclear holocaust" and murdering Iraqi civilians and U.S. troops. He warned, "I have authorized our military commanders in Iraq to confront Tehran's murderous activities."

The same day, a British think tank released a study concluding that the U.S. was preparing a "massive" military assault on Iran which could "destroy Iran’s WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed forces, state apparatus and economic infrastructure within days if not hours of President George W. Bush giving the order." On September 2, London’s Sunday Times reported that the Pentagon had plans for a three-day bombing blitzkrieg against 1,200 Iranian targets.

It’s estimated that half the U.S.’s warships are now poised near Iran, which means an attack could come very quickly – with little if any warning.

Far too many are either unaware or in denial about this extreme danger, and the capitalist media refuses to report it.

People need to call attention to and resist this U.S. escalation, including by joining World Can’t Wait—Drive Out the Bush Regime and building anti-war protests scheduled for September 15 and 29. (See www.worldcantwait.org for details.)

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Bush is to go to the UN on September 25th to make the US imperialists case against Iran. This is a choreographed move towards an invasion is is very reminiscent of when Colin Powell sat in New York and lied about Iraq's WMD's. I think that things are going to escalate very quickly now and although war is not inevitable that is what the whole dynamics of this think is tending towards.

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This should be interesting on the home front, my city is already a hotbed for protests, demonstrations and direct actions as it is. A strike by thousands of University workers here has large sections of the community all riled up over class issues, another war would cause massive amounts of people to take to the streets. I don't see how they plan on holding things down at home unless the rumors about large internment camps and martial law are true, another attack on American soil might do the trick as well.

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Was just reading an article and the following paragraph stuck out.

In a rather disturbing synchronistic development, there have been reports of billion dollar investments in high risk stock options in both Europe and the U.S. that would only be profitable if a dramatic collapse of the stock market were to occur before September 21. Similar stock options were purchased weeks before the 911 attack in 2001, and investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for possible insider trading. The combination of the Sunday Times report and the Stock market option purchases is circumstantial evidence that plans for a concerted military attack against Iran have been secretly approved and covert operations have begun

$4.5 billion is an awful lot of money to bet with unless someone is sure of something.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18374.htm