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Why Can’t Americans See it?
By Paul Craig Roberts
“Within weeks from now, we will see the informational warfare machine start
working. The public opinion is already under pressure. There will be a
growing anti-Iranian militaristic hysteria, new information leaks,
disinformation, etc. . . . The probability of a US aggression against Iran
is extremely high"
01/27/07 "ICHBlog " -- - The American public and the
US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime’s determination
to escalate the war in Iraq. A Massive protest demonstration is occurring in
Washington DC today, and Congress is expressing its disagreement with Bush’s
decision to intensify the war in Iraq.

This is all to the good. However, it misses the real issue--the Bush Regime’
s looming attack on Iran.

Rather than winding down one war, Bush is starting another. The entire world
knows this and is discussing Bush’s planned attack on Iran in many forums.
It is only Americans who haven’t caught on. A few senators have said that
Bush must not attack Iran without the approval of Congress, and postings on
the Internet demonstrate world wide awareness that Iran is in the Bush
Regime’s cross hairs. But Congress and the Media--and the demonstration in
Washington--are focused on Iraq.

What can be done to bring American awareness up to the standard of the rest
of the world?

In Davos, Switzerland, the meeting of the World Economic Forum, a conference
where economic globalism issues are discussed, opened January 24 with a
discussion of Bush’s planned attack on Iran. The Secretary General of the
League of Arab States and bankers and businessmen from such US allies as
Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates all warned of the coming attack and its
catastrophic consequences for the MIddle East and the world.

Writing for Global Research (January 24), General Leonid Ivashov, vice
president of the Academy on Geopolitical Affairs and former Joint Chief of
Staff of the Russian Armies, forecast an American nuclear attack on Iran by
the end of April. General Ivashov presented the neoconservative reasoning
that is the basis for the attack and concluded that the world’s protests
cannot stop the US attack on Iran.

There will be shock and indignation, General Ivashov concludes, but the US
will get away with it. He writes:

“Within weeks from now, we will see the informational warfare machine start
working. The public opinion is already under pressure. There will be a
growing anti-Iranian militaristic hysteria, new information leaks,
disinformation, etc. . . . The probability of a US aggression against Iran
is extremely high. It does remain unclear, though, whether the US Congress
is going to authorize the war. It may take a provocation to eliminate this
obstacle (an attack on Israel or the US targets including military bases).
The scale of the provocation may be comparable to the 9-11 attack in NY.
Then the Congress will certainly say “Yes” to the US President.”

The Bush Regime has made it clear that it is convinced that Bush already has
the authority to attack Iran. The Regime argues that the authority is part
of Bush’s commander-in-chief powers. Congress has authorized the war in
Iraq, and Bush’s recent public statements have shifted the responsibility
for the Iraqi insurgency from al-Qaeda to Iran. Iran, Bush has declared, is
killing US troops in Iraq. Thus, Iran is covered under the authorization for
the war in Iraq.

Both Bush and Cheney have made it clear in public statements that they will
ignore any congressional opposition to their war plans. For example, CBS
News reported (Jan. 25) that Cheney said that a congressional resolution
against escalating the war in Iraq “won’t stop us.” According to the
Associated Press and Yahoo News, Bush dismissed congressional disapproval
with his statement, “I’m the decision-maker.”

Everything is in place for an attack on Iran. Two aircraft carrier attack
forces are deployed to the Persian Gulf, US attack aircraft have been moved
to Turkey and other countries on Iran’s borders, Patriot anti-missile
defense systems are being moved to the Middle East to protect oil facilities
and US bases from retaliation from Iranian missiles, and growing reams of
disinformation alleging Iran’s responsibility for the insurgency in Iraq are
being fed to the gullible US Media.

General Ivashof and everyone in the Middle East and at the Davos
globalization conference in Europe understands the Bush Regime’s agenda.

Why cannot Americans understand?

Why hasn’t Congress told Bush and Cheney that they will both be instantly
impeached if they initiate a wider war?

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