"They are going to bomb (Iran) WMD facilities next summer"

[kpete]

Published on Wednesday, November 22, 2006
by the Agence France Presse
US Could Bomb Iran Nuclear Sites in 2007: Analysts


President George W. Bush could choose military action over diplomacy and bomb Iran's nuclear facilities next year, political analysts in Washington agree.

"I think he is going to do it," John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a military issues think tank, told AFP.

"They are going to bomb WMD facilities next summer," he added, referring to nuclear facilities Iran says are for peaceful uses and Washington insists are really intended to make nuclear bombs, or weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

"It would be a limited military action to destroy their WMD capabilities" added the analyst, believing a US military invasion of Iran is not on the table.

US journalist Seymour Hersh also said at the weekend that White House hawks led by Vice President Dick Cheney were intent on attacking Iran with or without the approval of the US Congress, both houses of which switch from Republican to Democratic control in January after the November 7 legislative elections.


more at:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1122-07.htm

[wuushew]

1. The War Powers Act must be repealed

either that or some peice of law that endows Congress as the sole determinator of military inent as was the original vision of the founding fathers.

[SCantiGOP]

9. Agree totally

The Constitution directly states that only Congress can declare war. In case of an attack or clear immediate threat, the President should have the right to order a military response, but Congress should be required to ratify it within a very short period of time, perhaps 48 hours, or the military response should cease. This is outrageous that the criminal cabal could be talking about doing this to the country after the ass-whipping they just took on November 7.

[ixion]

2. another tragic, world-altering SCREW UP by BushCo

How people can so casually discussing bombing sovereign nations is beyond me.

[HereSince1628]

3. Of course this is all guess work, maybe better than a W.A.G. but

then again maybe not. Because such a thing doesn't take months to implement, I think I'll wait until next year to consider if the tensions might suggest this will happen.

[CrispyQ]

4. Is the world going to stand by & let the US do this?

How much more of our stomping around the planet proclaiming "We're the greatest nation on earth. We're the deciders of who gets nuke technology" are they going to tolerate?

[Boo Boo]

5. I posted on a dupe thread that when Clark was campaigning for the midterms

he was saying that there was a 50 to 70 percent chance that Bush would attack Iran. Obviously, that's not something he's pulling out of his ass; he's hearing that from inside the Pentagon.

[SutaUvaca]

6. And once again ignoring the fact based report

by Chumpster's own CIA.

Arrogant fools!

[BurtWorm]

7. It would be totally insane for them to do that.

They need Iran to dig them out of the hole they dug themselves into. That's no way to get the hand up out of the hole.

[dubykc]

8. Does anyone actually think the intelligence is any less...

fabricated about Iran than it was about Iraq?

[bananas]

10. I'm not happy to hear John Pike say this

he's been watching these issues for a long time.