The Truth will prevail, But only if we Demand it from Congress!
9-11 Inside Job and Neocons Hacked 2004
Jim Meyers
Newsmax
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Contrary to some claims that the Bush administration will allow
diplomacy to handle Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a leading member
of America’s Jewish community tells Newsmax that a military strike
is not only on the table – but likely.
“Israel is preparing for heavy casualties,” the source said,
suggesting that although Israel will not take part in the strike, it
is expecting to be the target of Iranian retribution.
“Look at Dick Cheney’s recent trip through the Middle East as
preparation for the U.S. attack,” the source said. Cheney’s hastily
arranged 9-day visit to the region, which began on March 16,
included stops in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, Turkey, and the
Palestinian territories.
Tensions in the region have been rising.
While Israel was conducting the largest homefront military exercises
in its history last week, Israel’s National Infrastructure Minister
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer warned Tehran about expected attacks on the
Jewish state.
“An Iranian attack will prompt a severe reaction from Israel, which
will destroy the Iranian nation,” he said.
He predicted that in a future war, “hundreds of missiles will rain
on Israel,” but added that Iran “is definitely aware of our
strength.”
In addition to long-range missiles Iran has been developing to
strike Israel, Israel’s military strategists see the Iranians using
terror groups they back like Hamas operating from Palestine and
Hezbollah from Lebanon to launch attacks.
Iran has supplied Hezbollah with an arsenal that now contains “tens
of thousands of missiles,” according to the Washington Post.
IIsrael’s recent war exercises, including preparations for chemical
and biological weapons attacks, drew a sharp response from Syria
which held its own military drills. The Syrian government accused
Israel of preparing for a war which Damascus predicted would be
begin anytime between May 1 and the end of June.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently told
foreign journalists that Israel needs to confront the threat posed
by Iran. Privately he has been telling associates his number one
priority is have the Israeli military strike Iran if the U.S. is
unwilling.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz disclosed that Israel is concerned
that North Korea has transferred technology and nuclear materials to
Iran to aid Tehran’s secret nuclear weapons program.
Iran remains intransigent to international pressure that it offer
full transparency relating to its nuclear program. On Sunday the
head of Iran’s nuclear program “abruptly canceled a meeting with the
head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, dealing a blow to
the U.N. monitor's efforts to investigate allegations that Iran
tried to make nuclear arms, an agency official said,” according to
an AP report.
“But a senior diplomat had told the AP that IAEA [International
Atomic Energy Agency] head Mohamed ElBaradei likely planned to use
the meeting with Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, the head of Iran's nuclear
program, to renew a request for more information on allegations
Tehran had tried to make atomic arms.”
A number of signs indicate that, contrary to the belief President
Bush is a lame duck who will not act before he leaves office, the
U.S. is poised to strike before Iran can acquire nuclear weapons and
carry out the threat of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to
“wipe Israel off the map”:
According to intelligence sources, the administration now rejects
the National Intelligence Estimate report issued in December that
asserted Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in late 2003.
The French daily Le Monde reported in March that newly surfaced
documents show that Iran has continued developing nuclear weapons.
In late 2006, U.S. intelligence reportedly intercepted a phone
conversation in Iran’s Defense Ministry in which the nuclear weapons
program was discussed.
The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Admiral William
Fallon, resigned in March amid media reports that he broke with
President Bush’s strategy on Iran and did not want to be in the
chain of command when the order comes down from the President to
launch a strike on the Islamic Republic.
Democrats suggested he had been forced out because of his candor in
opposing Bush’s Iran plans, and Esquire magazine contended that
Fallon’s departure signaled that the U.S. is preparing to attack
Iran.
According to a Tehran-based Iranian news network, Press TV, Saudi
Arabia is taking emergency steps in preparing to counter any
“radioactive hazards” that may result from an American attack on
Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The Saudi newspaper Okaz disclosed that the Saudi government has
approved nuclear fallout preparations, and the Iranian network
reported that the approval came a day after Cheney met with the
kingdom’s high-ranking officials, further stating that the U.S. “is
now informing its Arab allies of a potential war.”
The American commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has stepped up
criticism of Iran, telling Congress last week that Iranian support
for Shiite militias posed the most serious threat to Iraq’s
stability. He told senators : “Iran has fueled the violence in a
particularly damaging way.” Last week, the U.S. said Iran was
providing insurgents with missiles that were killing Americans and
hitting targets within the U.S. occupied Green Zone in Baghdad.
MSNBC Commentator Pat Buchanan said Petraeus’ remarks to Congress
lay the groundwork for a U.S. attack on Iran.
President Bush said in a speech at the White House on April 10 that
Iran, along with al-Qaida, are “two of the greatest threats to
America.”
He said Iran “can live in peace with its neighbors,” or “continue to
arm and train and fund illegal militant groups which are terrorizing
the Iraqi people … If Iran makes the wrong choice, America will act
to protect our interests and our troops and our Iraqi partners.”
