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U.S. Preparing to Invade Iran

July 7, 2008: New Yorker article details Bush administration escalation of secret moves against Iran. See the article by Seymour Hersh titled "Preparing the Battlefield: The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves agains Iran."

July 2008: Many in congress are supporting a U.S. partial land, sea, and air blockade of Iran
http://www.fcnl.org/iran/

Study: US preparing 'massive' military attack against Iran http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Study_US_preparing_massive_military_attack_0828.html

'10,000 would die' in A-plant attack on Iran http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/13/wiran13.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/13/ixworld.html

Retired general: U.S. can live with a nuclear Iran
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/09/18/france.iran/

How the Military Can Stop an Iran Attack
Leaders of the peace movement appeal to the military not to attack Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18537.htm

War Supplemental Makes Room for Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407A.shtml
Maya Schenwar, reporting for Truthout, writes: "The Bush administration's $196.4 billion war supplemental spending request, released Monday, has Democrats reeling. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Robert Byrd called the supplemental 'short-sighted at best,' while House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey remarked in a statement, 'It's amazing to me that the president expects to be taken seriously.' Yet beyond the request's mind-boggling size, its open-ended aims point to the potentially vast scope of the 'war on terror' for years to come - including an undiminished presence in Iraq and the possibility of action against Iran."

The Secret History of the Impending War With Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407B.shtml
John H. Richardson, reporting for Esquire, writes: "Two former high-ranking policy experts from the Bush Administration say the US has been gearing up for a war with Iran for years, despite claiming otherwise. It'll be Iraq all over again."

America is About to Invade Iran
http://www.nysun.com/article/62246
Eli Lake in the New York Sun 9/10/2007 writes: " America is about to invade Iran. Any day now divisions of American tanks will be rolling toward Tehran as President Bush and the neoconservatives plunge the world into yet another disastrous war..."

Risks of US-Iran War Through Misunderstanding Grow
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407G.shtml
Le Figaro's Renaud Girard, French Ambassador Jacques Andreani and Marc Ullmann, writing for Le Monde, and Mohamed ElBaradei in an interview with Natalie Nougayrede at Le Monde all fear the rush to use force with Iran and argue it would be extremely premature.

Scott Ritter warns of Iran Invasion
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102207C.shtml
Scott Ritter, who was speaking widely of his belief that the Bush administration intended to invade Iraq well before the invasion and at a time when few others thought it would happen. In this editorial of 10/22/07 he warns of U.S. intentions to invade Iran and describes why President Bush's religious beliefs might lead him toward justifying or even relishing an invasion.

 

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