President's reasons to invade Iran are weak
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Posted: Monday, April 30, 2007 10:00 pm
President's reasons to invade Iran are weak
In August 2005, Vice President Dick Cheney ordered Strategic
Command (STRATCOM) to prepare a plan "to be employed in response to
another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States (including)
large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and
tactical nuclear weapons … not conditional on Iran actually being
involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United
States."
Rep. Ron Paul from Texas, who is currently considering a
presidential candidacy, expressed concern "that a contrived Gulf of
Tonkin-type incident may occur to gain popular support for an
attack on Iran."
If America invades Iran, the escalation of war would dwarf the
current situation, where we are primarily fighting a minority Sunni
insurgency. The Shiite government, which we have installed, armed
and trained, is pro-Iranian. The Shiite militia leadership has
promised its American-trained forces would attack America if it
invades Iran. Iraq's new parliament is aligned with Tehran. It is
dominated by the United Iraqi Alliance, which includes the Supreme
Council on Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), whose headquarters
are in Iran. It also includes the Dawa Party, whose leadership
visited Tehran in January 2006, and whose military engaged the U.S.
Marines for three weeks at Najaf, in November 2004.
President Bush's intelligence on Iran's "here we go again"
nuclear weapons program was obtained from a guerrilla group called
the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), translated "People's Mujahideen
(fighting force)." MEK was created in 1965 under
Soviet-sponsorship, by Marxist revolution ideology. MEK
participated in attacks on the Shah of Iran, aligned itself with
Khomeini, and participated in the Iran hostage-taking, before it
was expelled from Iran. MEK was welcomed in Baghdad, participated
in the Iran-Iraq war. Today, MEK is postured to benefit from a
regime-change in Iran.
I don't see any reason for United States' presence in the
Persian Gulf, except for escorts through the Strait of Hormuz; and
I don't believe President Bush's non-corroborated intelligence.
Daniel Hutchins
Acampo
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posted at 3:44 am on Mon, May 7, 2007.
citizen: At least get it right. I'm a conservative, and you could't possibly offend me. If you got the story right, I'd listen. As it is, I recommend you express yourself in Berkeley or Arcata. For your information, these are cities in California.
posted at 3:54 pm on Thu, May 3, 2007.
citizen: This is not your house to ask me to leave. I do not leave because this is my country.
posted at 5:07 am on Tue, May 1, 2007.
Politics aside, an actual invasion of Iran is a non starter. We simply do not have the manpower to do the job while we remain bogged down in the Iraqi quagmire. Whats worse, our incompetent Commander in Chief has allowed our military's combat readiness status to degrade to its lowest level in decades.