Okay, I'll be the first to go on record here to say that I didn't believe in Iraqi WMD and opposed the Iraqi invasion from the get-go. However, I believe Iran requires intervention.
But your notion of greeted as liberators in Iran?!? What the? Do you seriously think a ground invasion is being considered by anyone? Iranian nuclear assests can be removed without toppling the government.
Aaron
“This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone,” the former high-level intelligence official told me. “Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign. We’ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah—we’ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.”
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact
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"The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran is now in the final planning stages. Coalition partners, which include the US, Israel and Turkey are in "an advanced stage of readiness".
Various military exercises have been conducted, starting in early 2005. In turn, the Iranian Armed Forces have also conducted large scale military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf in December in anticipation of a US sponsored attack.
Since early 2005, there has been intense shuttle diplomacy between Washington, Tel Aviv, Ankara and NATO headquarters in Brussels.
In recent developments, CIA Director Porter Goss on a mission to Ankara, requested Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "to provide political and logistic support for air strikes against Iranian nuclear and military targets." Goss reportedly asked " for special cooperation from Turkish intelligence to help prepare and monitor the operation." (DDP, 30 December 2005).
In turn, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has given the green light to the Israeli Armed Forces to launch the attacks by the end of March:
All top Israeli officials have pronounced the end of March, 2006, as the deadline for launching a military assault on Iran.... The end of March date also coincides with the IAEA report to the UN on Iran's nuclear energy program. Israeli policymakers believe that their threats may influence the report, or at least force the kind of ambiguities, which can be exploited by its overseas supporters to promote Security Council sanctions or justify Israeli military action.
(James Petras, Israel's War Deadline: Iran in the Crosshairs, Global Research, December 2005)"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code= CH20060103&articleId=1714
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Beating the Drums of War. US Troop Build-up: Army & Marines authorize "Involuntary Conscription"
The Timing of U.S. Troop Build-up: Iran and the Broader Middle East
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
August 23, 2006
GlobalResearch.ca
U.S. Army & Marines are recalling thousands of Inactive Servicemen
If one places a frog in a kettle of boiling water, the frog will immediately jump and try to escape, but if you place the frog in a kettle of cold water then heat the kettle gradually, the frog will obliviously, without any notice, remain in the kettle as the temperature of the water rises and the frog eventually boils to death. The significance of this is that gradual change can be and is believed to be unperceivable. This is strategy and concept can likewise be used on societies and groups in a variety of manners.
It is now being specified and openly stated that the U.S. Marines have started recalling or legally summoning thousands of ‘inactive servicemen’ to serve in Iraq and the Middle East, where the number of U.S. troops and contracted security personal are dropping towards hap-hazardous levels that seem to be worrying American commanders in Iraq and the Pentagon’s military planners, especially in light of the recent escalation and intensifying tension(s) and resistance to Anglo-American occupation in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The U.S. Army too, undermined by shortfalls in manpower, has ordered over a reported 14,000 ‘inactive servicemen’ back to fight in what is cited as the ‘War on Terror,’ as opposed to the ‘fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan.’ Already thousands of servicemen have disserted, even applying for refugee status in Canada, and thousands more are AWAL (absent without authorized leave).
The compulsory recall to military service has come about and materialized in an almost complementary and balancing fashion with the timing of several important international events. The compulsory recall of ‘inactive servicemen’ in the United States might even go unnoticed in North America and most of the world until analysts, historians and later generations look back at the present events, years from now and place them into focus within a larger matrix of events.
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At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy woo, sounds like something is going on to me . . .
Too bad soldiers who thought their sacrifice and service was already paid in full are going to be thrown back into the frying pan.
(edited to add) Good luck, csense, Darth Rotor, garrett and others I may have forgotten. Just remember, don't bounce when you walk and take care what kind of light is behind you.
