Iran attack this Friday? Not Likely

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There's some buzz that the U.S. is readying an attack on Iran, possibly as soon as this Friday.

Don't believe it. I'm due to be on board the USS Stennis, believed to be one of the ships taking part in this attack, next week -- and it won't even be in the Persian Gulf.

I'm not inclined to believe the US military would be taking reporters on boat rides in the Indian Ocean, for example, just a few days after the start of a new war. Maybe I'm wrong on this, but my hunch is this is one more rumor that got started by Debka and the usual suspects.

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I completely agree. An attack on Iran won’t happen short of another 9/11-style attack (perpetrated by anyone, not necessarily Iranians).

Every day we hear that Iraki police and soldiers being killed by irakis, says american media, but ther iraki soldiers and police are being killed by americans because these Iraki soldier and police men were found to be core anti American , and against american accupation, so these anti american are taken to training with warning them they have been listed to be elminated, so as soon thes people are encouraged to tobe on the way to training, to be be blown to pieces by remote control or even by bombing thier truck by american patchies,killind hundreds of them each time.and latter anouncinging , by american media, that Alkaida or terrorist have killed iraki soldiers,and iraki police,, Why no one investigats, mischieves of americans, and lies and proxy killings, as they started the war with lies, of wepons of mass distruction, ,Abu garib prison attrocities,, , looting of Iraki wealth, distroying of shia mosqs, and then blaming on sunnis, , Kidnaping of iraki leaders, and igniting civil wars, that american inciate, to stay longer, why no one announce a million doller reward for some american soldier who breaks the secret, who kills iraki soldiers and iraki police.

we will never be able to occupy Iran. An air war ala Clinton vs Slobo would work but we will never get that oil.

Any truth to the rumor of GIs signaling that if they die in Iraq that they desire to have their remains (ashes) dropped on or spread over President Bush’s Texas ranch or personally delivered to him by a surviving family member? I’ve heard that the thinking is: he’s responsible for them being killed therefore he owns them. I guess this is akin to the administration’s you break it you own it policy.

There are two fundamental reasons why the US will not invade Iran. A central but frequently overlooked factor is funding for combat operations. I’m sure it may come as a shock to many but the United States is bankrupt, therefore invading Iran is fiscally infeasible. The other crucially factor which has been much ballyhooed in the press lately is that the military lacks the personnel.

Iran is doing no mistake, or not breaking and international treaty, by having thier own food and neclier technology, they are doing for peacefull purpose, but as long as america has the agressive plans against against countries there, America will be always suspicious of neuclear Iran, It is the contamination of american agressive brains that they suspect mirror or thier ugly monster every where,america must change it attitude, and agressivene, and bullying, and america will face new friends, and helping hand, not the suspicious reflective images of of american actions as monstrous, No american is wor to die, and niether the Iranian or irakis , million to be killed by american agression, No one told america to be the police men of world, , america is talking against dictaorships, but yet America tries to dictate the world, and in UNO. All the countries must have all form of eqipment to defend thier country, and even from american agression,, if in Iran there would be pro American dictator, like Shah Of Iran, America wouldnt any problem , if shah or pro american dictator, has a nuclear bomb to bomb the arabs, America does not want democracies in Irak or else where, they only want to errect a pro american dictator, in that country, , but o fool the mass they us the word democracy, If any country needs the democracy , that is America it self, because it is turning like a nazi state, to do the mass massacres, and holucust arround the world, and the wars against the wish of world comunity, similar to what Hitlar did,, why America does not apply same laws to nuclear capablitis of Israel, who have somany neulear bombs, to distroy the whole world, , why internation law are aplyied differently, it is because Israel does a proxy war for america, , and america has made world more dangerous,, instead of findins solution, and peace, america relies on the barrel of the gun to solve the the problem by making new and greater and dangerous problems,, IRan one more mistake is that they dont find super power friends, to have joint defence, either with china and russia, by negociatint with them, that will be good for both parties, because, If Iran persuads Russia or china or both to errect a new defence treaty , with the name of NATO 2, in persian gulf, whole world will chang, but the wisidon lacks to establish such defence organisation, even to just to get this in thier heads, there will be better peace, with establisment of another treaty to balance with american agression, but it will become as american get mor crasy, with thier bullying, befor e Iran need o bully friend to stand behind Iran, to continue peacefull, and neglect American brutal hegimony,, just like America stands behind Israel, regard less what they do, against thier concious, afer all, they, survived under Hitler, as the palastians do under Israely miltary machine, with no passion, with th means of hitler miltary might, and they have forgot thier past,,

This is some radical ill-informed commentary in this room. First let me start off by saying that this G.I. rumor you speak of is false, the U.S. has a volunteer army, people are not forced to join, they join for their own reasons, and do not make these requests to dump ashes and whatnot. Also, Chow was not a military recruiter that shot a bunch of students for not joining. I know people that knew him, he was a lonely guy that stayed in his room all day and didn’t interact with other people. He he had an obsession and was stalking a girl that told him to get lost and he snapped, and just started shooting random people, then he shot himself. The police never even shot anyone. It was not even possible for Chow to be part of the military b/c 1. his age in relation to his years in college made it impossible to have ever served, and 2. his ill-mental health history would have denied him entry to the military anyway. Now, confronting the Israel Nuke issue brought up earlier, do you know nothing? This issue is handled by the U.N. If you need to blame someone blame them. Now as for my thoughts on “the Iraq war in general” Obviously everyone here should realize that this was not just Bush’s doing, but also nearly all of Congress, including all of these current media hungry anti-war democrats They voted for this war, and supported its intent and made the same decisions based on the same evidence that Bush had. I’m sorry to burst the bubble of you conspiracy theorists out there but hey, crazy people don’t know they are crazy, so I won’t expect you to seek reality and truth. Just as you shouldn’t expect to understand these truths that go against the ill-concieved and reason-falty beliefs you have of the issues I have spoken of.

Chris, Chaim’s full of utter crap and you’re hosting his counterfactual rants on your site. Just my two cents. If I keep some clown from tattooing his name on my forehead, is that censorship too? If not, where’s the line really? Everyone’s blog has different rules, of course, but Chaim ain’t welcome on mine with that conspiracist foolishness.

I’ve emailed a guy on Stennis urging his support for your visit. I saw the France 2 TV clip last week they did, so they’ve been loading reporters on board.

Here’s a challenge—can you do, if you so desire, a different article about being on the carrier than I see every time some reporter drops by and sees it for the first time?

Am having technical difficulties regarding the comment moderation at this time. It’s either a crappy connection here in Lebaon, Yahoo’s frankly sub-par hosting capabilities or a combination of both. Sorry for the craziness, but I’m trying to find a way to get in there.

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