Larisa reports the U.S. could be gearing up for air strikes in Iran, possibly in June.

October 5, 2018--George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, died today at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. He was 72. The cause of death was announced as heart failure.
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Mr. Bush in 2003 led a limited international coalition into Iraq and replaced Mr. Hussein with an occupying force, which over the next year was pushed back into consistently shrinking enclaves in the face of a fierce insurgency. Following his reelection in 2004, Mr. Bush ordered the destruction of the cities where the insurgents were thought to be concentrated; though the cities were destroyed, the insurgency continued. Mr. Bush then pressed on to Iran and North Korea, which he had identified as "rogue states."
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Mr. Bush then ordered what he described as "pinpoint" nuclear attacks on the nuclear sites in Iran and North Korea, which, while achieving their goals, also led to the One-Day War, a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan that left Bombay and Karachi in ruins and led to the fall of the governments of both countries, and to the withdrawal of the American-led coalition forces from Iraq. The result was the series of still-continuing civil wars throughout the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent that, while involving no unconventional weapons since 2006 have, according to the United Nations, caused the deaths of 12 million people and the displacement of millions more......

Before any major military operation, there are always tell tale signs. With all the talk about Israel or the United States bombing Iran's nuclear weapons program, it would be wise to check for the signs before taking the pundit prattle too seriously. The U.S. Navy stages a "surge exercise" and moves six carrier battle groups into the Indian Ocean. A "regularly scheduled exercise" moves Patriot Missile Batteies to Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. These exercises happen from time to time, but if they happen when other things are happening... Movement of B-52 and B1B bombers to the island of Diego Garcia (in the Indian Ocean). Deployment of F117 stealth bombers and F-22 fighters to anywhere in the Persian Gulf. Deployment of B-2 Stealth Bombers to Guam, where there are special facilities for maintaining these aircraft. Lockdown of Whitman Air Force Base (where most B-2 bombers are stationed) in Missouri. Increased delivery of Pizza to Pentagon Sudden loss of cell service near some air force bases (from which heavy bombers would depart). At the same time, there would be sightings of Middle Eastern looking guys around these bases, trying to get their cell phones to work, while being observed by what appears to be FBI agents. Deployment of KC-135/KC-10 aerial tankers to Diego Garcia, Guam and the Persian Gulf. America asks nations neighboring Iran for basing and over flight rights..."

Excellent question. I see the trolls cannot seem to answer it, hoping around like Mexican jumping beans.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

May 12 2006 Amsterdam - [Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)] has welcomed moves to avert possible UN sanctions against Tehran for its nuclear programme and appealed for compromise as Iran's president said he was ready to talk. Tehran says it wants to produce low-grade enriched uranium to use in atomic power reactors, not the highly enriched uranium used to make bombs. Diplomats say ElBaradei has privately told Western leaders they may have to accept a limited Iranian enrichment programme under IAEA monitoring as it was a matter of national pride, and that to insist on scrapping it might only bolster Iranian hardliners. He and other IAEA veterans were also unhappy about the Security Council's intervention. They fear that a rush to punish Iran before having found hard evidence of bomb-making could drive it out of the Non-proliferation Treaty and its nuclear project underground. ElBaradei has said Iran poses "no imminent threat". During a visit to Indonesia, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran was "ready to engage in dialogue". He was responding to a question on a letter he sent to US President George Bush this week, the first by an Iranian president to his US counterpart since Washington cut ties with Iran in 1980 following Iran's 1979 revolution. The US has dismissed the letter...

A simple one. Offer to enrich uranium for them in the US.

Nobody's answered the question of which they prefer, Iran with or Iran without, and if the latter how to get there.

Every country on the planet will eventually acquire nuclear technology: perhaps at that point no country will risk attacking another,

I do hope and pray that the Iranian government comes to its senses and decides that it should stop being a state sponsor of terrorism, and stops its development of nuclear weapons. Because that is what it is, and that is what they are trying to develop. n the likely event that they do not, I hope and pray that as many Iranians as possible are spared death and injury because I know that many of them do not support their government. In the event of war, as I am an American I hope and pray that none of our military are killed or injured. I also hope and pray that enough of the enemy, its military and infrastructure are killed and destroyed to bring us a quick victory.

Because dear edger, it is a shield for their no longer secret attempt to produce a nuclear bomb.

When Iran acquires their first nuclear bomb, do you really think they will use it against Israel, or anyone else, except in defense?

Israel, so far as is known, has somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 nuclear warheads, if not more, and the delivery systems needed to turn Iran into a uninhabitable radioactive slag heap in a matter of hours.

There's an elephant in the room. It is large and squatting, so it is hard to get around it. Yet we squeeze by with, "How are you?" and "I'm fine," and a thousand other forms of trivial chatter. We talk about the weather. We talk about work. We talk about everything else, except the elephant in the room.

why do they rush to develop "nuclear power?"

Sky-Ho writes:

Excellent question. I see the trolls cannot seem to answer it, hoping around like Mexican jumping beans.

I answered Al's question and your trollish comment 57 minutes before you posted your comment. Perhaps the ego you referred to resides between your ears??

The U.N. atomic agency found traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian site linked to the country's defense ministry, diplomats said Friday, adding to concerns that Tehran was hiding activities aimed at making nuclear arms. The diplomats, who demanded anonymity in exchange for revealing the confidential information, said the findings were preliminary and still had to be confirmed through other lab tests. But they said the density of enrichment appeared to be close to or above the level used to make nuclear warheads.

You are missing the bigger picture. What would stop them from giving it to a terrorist organization and claiming they had nothing to do with it??

then claim and insult me with the assumption that I am a sucker and will believe that retaliation is something "We did nothing to invite"

All those Iraq WMD's and Saddam's links to al Quaida are also from the same superduper sources.
And they were correct!

Al. And if you stay home, you live with the results. Got any idea what those would be?

...that this attack will clearly be made without cover of even sham U.N. resolutions.

How PROUD you will be when gas shoots to $8-10 a gallon the minute the shooting starts? PROUD indeed you will be when you learn that the Straits of Hormuz can be blockaded, preventing the shipment of oil!

I have a sneaky feeling that the whole point of the plan is to bomb the oil fields themselves. The nukes may be a red herring. That is their source of Iran's $$$. Cut off the oil and they starve.

But I wouldn't bet the farm on any point with this lot.

Automobiles, like guns and ammo, seems to bring out the worst in people.

Everyone was unbelievably nice there as long as they were not in a car. Once in the car it was another world. I have never seen such road rage anywhere in the world as there. Pent up frustration from having to be so nice all the time, maybe? I did not get it.

Please show me where the US did that ... & then denied it.

Peaches, I read voraciously. Anything that makes sense. From wherever. And much that doesn't. I guess I'm an information junkie, and very interested in what makes people tick, you know? I'm from the planet

Where there are people of every kind of race, creed, color, belief system, and orientation that you can think of all around me, who all get along unbelieveably well, BTW.

Posted by edger May 11, 2006 08:54 PM I'll second that, Jondee...

Any God worth his salt would "guide them" on a freedom mission to a certain vegetable stand in Colorado first. Right now thats my fondest wish.

If we hadn't gone into Iraq--see Duelfer and Kay--the programs and capabilities SH had in place would have been reconstituted.

The former regime had no formal written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after sanctions. Neither was there an identifiable group of WMD policy makers or planners separate from Saddam. Instead, his lieutenants understood WMD revival was his goal from their long association with Saddam, and his infrequent, but firm, verbal comments and directions to them.

Interview with former Regime officials who were active in Iraq's governing, economic, security, and intelligence structures were critical to ISG's assessment of the former Regime's WMD strategy.

Peaches- Have you switched from beer to ecstasy?

ooooxxxx Oscar.

That's as close as I have come to ecstasy.