Panetta Says U.S. Now Ready to Attack Iran

[Lucille]

Related: The Senate Anti-Containment Resolution Is Written To Sabotage Any Hope of a Negotiated Settlement

...Incredibly, the resolution also calls for “the verified end of Iran’s ballistic missile programs.” This goes beyond any United Nations resolutions on Iran, which talk about nuclear capability of missiles, and even beyond anything ever demanded of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, for which range limits were imposed. It would be understandable if Tehran reads such language as further evidence that the United States is interested not in any negotiated agreement but instead only in regime change.

The goal of any provocative ultimatum is to make such excessive demands that there is no way that the other government could ever agree to all of them without suffering complete humiliation. Undermining a possible negotiated settlement is the purpose of the resolution as far as many of the resolution’s co-sponsors are concerned. By declaring containment to be intolerable as an alternative, the co-sponsors are doing their best to make war with Iran unavoidable.

 

[Revolution9]

Ready to attack? Or planning possible actions? Big difference. The military is constantly making plans on how to possibly deal with global situations. No- he did not say that we were now ready to attack.

Quote from the original story (following link from Alex Jones piece):
http://www.nationaljournal.com/nati...p-iran-from-creating-nuclear-weapons-20120527


Having plans does not necessarily mean you have forces in place to execute those plans. It does not say he said things were ready to go.

Who signs yer frikkin' cheques? Yer always obfuscating and prevaricating around the bloody bush whenever the establishment is caught with it's dick hangin'. You would have assured us the Iraq war wouldn't happen either and then apologized for the bastards after it did.

Rev9

 

[John F Kennedy III]

Who signs yer frikkin' cheques? Yer always obfuscating and prevaricating around the bloody bush whenever the establishment is caught with it's dick hangin'. You would have assured us the Iraq war wouldn't happen either and then apologized for the bastards after it did.

Rev9

Truth.

 

[Danke]

The resulting spike in oil prices could send the country back into recession which would hurt Obama's chances for re-election.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

It's not.

How do you know? Maybe they're invisible.

 

[mport1]

We should probably preemptively nuke them so they don't develop any nukes. Maybe we should just go ahead and do that to the whole Middle East. If we murder all of them, then there is no way they can develop nukes.