The Iran Trap, By Chris Hedges

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The Iran Trap
by Chris Hedges

The failure by Barack Obama to chart another course in the Middle East, to defy the Israel lobby and to denounce the Bush administration’s inexorable march toward a conflict with Iran is a failure to challenge the collective insanity that has gripped the political leadership in the United States and Israel.

Obama, in a miscalculation that will have grave consequences, has given his blessing to the widening circle of violence and abuse of the Palestinians by Israel and, most dangerously, to those in the Bush White House and Jerusalem now plotting a war against Iran. He illustrates how the lust for power is morally corrosive. And while he may win the White House, by the time he takes power he will be trapped in George Bush’s alternative reality.

We need to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. We need to stay the hand of Israel, which is building more settlements-including a new plan to put 800 housing units in occupied East Jerusalem-and imposing draconian measures to physically break the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza. We need, most of all, to prevent a war with Iran.

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, in a letter to President Bush on May 8, threatened to open impeachment proceedings if Bush attacked Iran. The letter is a signal that planning for strikes on Iran is under way and pronounced.

“Our concerns in this area have been heightened by more recent events,” Conyers wrote. “The resignation in mid-March of Admiral William J. ‘Fox’ Fallon from the head of U.S. Central Command, which was reportedly linked to a magazine article that portrayed him as the only person who might stop your Administration from waging preemptive war against Iran, has renewed widespread concerns that your Administration is unilaterally planning for military action against that country. This is despite the fact that the December 2007 National Intelligence Estimate concluded that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003, a stark reversal of previous Administration assessments.”

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/09/9501/

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1. Why Make 'Threats' Of Impeachment?

Why not begin impeachment proceedings right NOW?

Are Congressional Democrats going to wait until Bush invades Iran, and starts World War III before they decide to stop kissing his butt and allow him to terrorize the world??

We just cannot afford another war. If another one starts, I will blame Democrats just as much as Republicans because they refuse to stop Bush. There simply is no more excuse for believing and kowtowing to Bush.

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2. "America has one political party with two right wings." - Gore Vidal

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this was just recommended to me by a retired Poli Sci teacher k/r nt

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3. this was just recommended to me by a retired Poli Sci teacher k/r nt