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jsamuel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 05:44 PM
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Poll question: Is the US already bombing Iran?
We now know through the DSM and other official sources that the US was bombing Iraq for more than a year before the "start" of the war in Iraq. Iraq complained to the UN, but to no avail...

We all see the build up to a war with Iran now with every day reveling a little more "evidence" against Iran. Does this mean that the US is already bombing Iran?
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Pam-Moby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 05:46 PM
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1. DA-I do not know! Do you know? n/t
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 05:47 PM
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2. probably
in the course of chasing insurgents across the border.
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 05:48 PM
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3. I voted "No" the reason being there is no way to provide
Edited on Mon Aug-08-05 05:50 PM by rzemanfl
"plausible deniablity" for an air strike other than to blame it on Israel.
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 05:48 PM
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4. 50/50 odds
Cheney really wants to nuke Iran, probably slowly working up to it, just not clear whether it's started or whether he'll do it suddenly.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 05:49 PM
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5. Other:
I don't believe that there have been deliberate bombing incursions into Irani Airspace. We would hear about it through Al Jeezera if not the US Media.

I don't doubt that there have been Special Forces crossing the border for their nefarious purposes, and other provocative actions along the border.

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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 05:54 PM
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8. correct
there have been several reports that at Cheney's orders, they are scoping out the land, putting in GPS devices for the future strikes and doing other mischief.
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Spock_is_Skeptical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 05:50 PM
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6. They could very well be... for all I know.
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Trevelyan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 05:53 PM
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7. I voted yes but that is just from following how Bushco repeats itself
The perverse sexual torture and caging of human beings in Belmarsh, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere is very much like the torture of American and Canadian citizens esp. children by the CIA's MK-ULTRA plans. The victims of Monarch testify on Raven1.net and ACHEs sites and Dr. Hammond's Greenbaum speech on several sites if you Google goes into a lot of depth about the unspeakable things these monsters have been doing to American children for decades.

I don't know if this article is true but may mean that Bush has left Dodge for Saudi Arabia but the article posted on two sites today claims the reason is the secret war between the US and Israel and mentions the Israeli "Art Students" and the prosecution of Israeli spies that has been on a number of sites including MSM:

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index795.htm

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7456

Monday 8th August 2005 (22h41) :
BUSH FLEES US??

Bush Flees United States for Saudi Arabia as Israel Accelerates Attack Timetable in Continuing Secret War with America, US Prepares For Martial Law

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers

Russian FSB reports circulating today among Intelligence Analysts are reporting that the Saudi Arabia Government has surrounded with Military Forces a large area of their capital city Riyadh, including the United States, British and Russian Embassies, in order to protect the America President George Bush who entered Saudi Arabia last evening with a large contingent of his family members and personal aides.

It is interesting to note in these reports that the American President was accompanied by United States Military Protection Forces instead of the customary contingent of Secret Service Protection Forces, leading some Intelligent Analysts to suspect the American President no longer has confidence in those Secret Service Forces protecting his life.

More on the above sites
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 10:48 PM
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12. The knucklehead in chief was in New Mexico today
Unless he has a clone. God forbid!
:freak:
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kevsand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 09:19 PM
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9. I think Iran might be saying something if there were bombs dropping. /nt
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jsamuel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 09:26 PM
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10. While that is a good point, I didn't hear a peep from Iraq either
didn't make its way across the Atlantic ocean...
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kevsand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 10:41 PM
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11. Actually, Iraq and Britain and the U.S. all talked about it at the time.
It's just that Britain and the U.S. were lying about why. But you're right about no one paying attention. By that time, air strikes in response to being painted by ground radar were old hat, having gone on for a decade. After ten years, no one was watching closely enough to realize the frequency had increased.

That's not the case in Iran. Al-Jazeera would scream bloody murder, and Reuters or the BBC (or both) would pick it up, and somebody here would have spotted it by now.

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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 10:50 PM
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13. No
But the trigger finger is getting mighty itchy.
I have no doubt that the machinations are underway.
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