Experts Speak: No Good Military Options in Iran

Too bad the experts aren't the ones in charge.

Everything Bush ever did was a loss.

people say the CFR...would be pleased with a reduction of population? so why would anyone from there say this for example:

RAY TAKEYH, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (CFR)
To properly address the complexities of the Iranian challenge, Washington should appreciate that its policy of relentlessly threatening Iran with economic coercion and even military reprisals only empowers reactionaries and validates their pro-nuclear argument.” [4/4/06]

or why would anyone from the carneigie foundation say:
JOSEPH CIRINCIONE, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT
“[A] military strike would be disastrous for the United States. It would rally the Iranian public around an otherwise unpopular regime, inflame anti-American anger around the Muslim world, and jeopardize the already fragile U.S. position in Iraq. And it would accelerate, not delay, the Iranian nuclear program. Hard-liners in Tehran would be proven right in their claim that the only thing that can deter the United States is a nuclear bomb. Iranian leaders could respond with a crash nuclear program that could produce a bomb in a few years.” [3/27/06]

then you get:
IAEA DIRECTOR MOHAMED ELBARADEI
“I don’t believe there is a military solution to the issue. I think that a military solution would be completely counterproductive.” [12/9/05]

and even murtha:
REP. JOHN MURTHA (D-PA)
“There’s no way [President Bush is] going to take military action in Iran. Iran is, is three times as big geographically, there’s 58 million people vs. 26 million people in, in Iraq, and, and there’s no way. A fanatical government — I mean, the, the president of the United States does not have a military option. He can say he has a military option; he does not have a military option.” [3/19/06

and:
FORMER COUNTERTERROR CHIEF RICHARD CLARKE
“[W]e’ve thought about military options against Iran off and on for the last 20 years, and they’re just not good, because you don’t know what the end game is. You know what the first move of the game is, but you don’t know what the last move of the game is. … I don’t think there’s any doubt that the intelligence community and the defense department believe Iran would respond with terrorism. … So they would respond if we hit them militarily, if that was the first move. The second move would them striking back with terrorism, including in the United States. And then what’s the third move? What’s the end of that process?” [ABC’s Good Morning America, 4/3/06]


there are more that have similar input...times change (these are past statements) but the truth found in them hasn't changed...so why...doesn't bush take a listen? why does he still act out his fantasies at the risk of the world?

surely someone close to him (daddy maybe??) has more on the deciding of what can be done or not done? say congress even? can't people in congress listen to comments from experts and realize it's in the best interest of all to take the advise to heart?

or is bush really a dictator already?

yeah...but daddy usually bailed him out...what's stopping daddy now? cheney? s'pose he would like his retirement plan completed...straight to the caspian sea...but since BP already got their pipeline in...does that matter anymore?

too bad they didn't have this little talk BEFORE the war

i know i know, it is part of the plan for us to get our asses kicked,,

I listened to Catherine Austin Fitts on Rense a few weeks ago.

Although she did not mention Iran, she stated that this type of warmongering hype is used to jack prices up, keep people off-kilter and still have power and control.

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some CAFitts articles: [link to www.scoop.co.nz]
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and then we have the Iranian Oil Bourse

...on the Persian Gulf island of Kish (which is designated by Iran as a free trade zone. The bourse has not yet opened, having missed at least three announced opening dates.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

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and they have NO CENTRAL BANK for the Banksters to loot the Iranians
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on the other hand, you have these racist beanie freaks who are goading the USA and their own people to bomb Iran


Pick-n-Play

Odds in Vegas?

50/50

My pick: not gonna happen (at least full-tilt boogie)