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Attacking Iran
What’s In It For Bush?

Counterpunch
Excerpt
Initially, the Bush Regime denied that Bush’s escalation speech on January 10 signaled that the Regime intends to attack Iran. Now a number of Regime officials have made it clear that Iran, not Iraq, is the focus of the Regime’s war planning. Robert Gates, the new Defense Secretary and member of the Iraq Study Group, was supposedly brought into the Pentagon to de-escalate the war. Gates now says that Iran is the target of US military moves in the Persian Gulf…

The Bush Regime’s latest big lie is that the US is not winning in Iraq because of Iran. “The Iranians are acting in a very negative way,” alleges the “moderate” Gates. Iraq, the target for the escalation in US troop levels, has dimmed in importance. In the few days since Bush’s “surge” speech, Bush, Cheney, Gates, Rice, and national security advisor Hadley have said far more about Iran than about Iraq…

Clearly, the Bush Regime expects that it can again deceive the American public. There is no doubt that Iran will be attacked. The Israeli government and the neoconservatives have been demanding it.
The question is: why is Bush, who is confronted with failure in Iraq, willing to compound his problems by attacking a more powerful Muslim state that the US has no prospect of being able to occupy?

Here is the victory scenario:

H.L.s Take
Paul Craig Roberts who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, lays out a chilling scenario.
Will Bush and Cheney use nuclear weapons against Iran to get the “Victory” they so badly need. Maybe not, but they have other plans up their sleeves to save Bushs legacy. Will Congress allow this to happen?? Probably, the media definitely will do every thing in their power to try to help out the monkey just like they always have.

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