Ready for the next war?

Good Morning....It's been a few days since the last update. There have been some login issues with Blogspot in recent mornings, so I've been sticking with Air America Place. In any case...here's the skinny...


VP Blasty McBirdshot is starting to prep us for the coming war in Iran. The "administration" is taking a hard line against Iran for perceived offenses, and they've wheeled out their big guns. (pun intended.)

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration drew a hard line on Iran yesterday, warning of ''meaningful consequences" if the Islamic government does not back away from an international confrontation over its disputed nuclear program.

Edging toward the UN Security Council review it has long sought, Washington rejected any potential 11th-hour compromise that would allow Iran to process nuclear fuel that could be used for weapons.

Vice President Dick Cheney said the United States and other nations are in agreement that ''we will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon."

''The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course, the international community is prepared to impose meaningful consequences," Cheney said.

Speaking to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group, Cheney did not specify what the United States would do but said it ''is keeping all options on the table." American officials have said the government has no plans for military force but will not rule it out.

The United States, Israel, and several Arab nations fear development of an Iranian bomb would put Israel at risk or forever change the balance of power in the Middle East.

Russia, which has played middleman on Iran since the breakdown of talks between Tehran and European nations, reassured US officials that it remains on board as the UN nuclear watchdog agency again took up the Iran case in Vienna. The Security Council could have full purview over the issue by week's end, but there is no timetable for action there.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States is not seeking sanctions against Iran ''as a first matter." [hint-that means war. - Ed.]

Of course, that ties in with the latest false flag. Donald Rumsfeld is claiming that Iran is sending forces into Iraq. So a second justification (in case we can't make nuclear proliferation stick) is going to be the "Warron Terra". Since Iran is supporting the insurgents, they must hate our freedoms, right?

WASHINGTON -- Raising a new complaint about Iran, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday accused Tehran of dispatching elements of its Revolutionary Guard to stir trouble inside Iraq.

At the same time, he rejected the idea that Iraq has slipped into civil war, asserting that media reports have overstated recent violence there.

Rumsfeld offered few details concerning his allegation of interference by Iran, which fought an eight-year-war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s and shares a largely unguarded border.

''They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq," he said at a Pentagon news conference. ''And it is something that they, I think, will look back on as having been an error in judgment."

He did not elaborate except to say the infiltrators were members of the Al Quds Division of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the network of soldiers and vigilantes whose mandate is to defeat threats to the 1979 Islamic revolution. The Al Quds Division is responsible for operations outside Iranian territory.

Rumsfeld and other US officials have previously complained of Iranian complicity in the movement of explosives and bomb-making material across the border into Iraq, but Rumsfeld had not mentioned Iranian forces before.

He initially said the infiltrators were doing ''things that are harmful to the future of Iraq," but later when asked specifically whether they were gathering intelligence or fomenting violence, Rumsfeld said he did not know what their mission was.

Appearing with Rumsfeld, General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that although there have been indications of Iranian-manufactured weapons coming into Iraq, ''the most recent reports have to do with individuals crossing the border." He said he had an estimate of the number but declined to reveal it.

Pace said he did not know whether the Iranians were sent by their government. Asked the same question, Rumsfeld replied, ''Of course. Quds force, the Revolutionary Guard, doesn't go milling around willy-nilly, one would think."

This certainly bears some watching in the next few weeks and months....but any student of history really shouldn't be surprised by the course of action we're taking.

Germany. 1938. Check it out.