There’s still time left for George Bush and his war mongering criminal tribe to initiate another war. Who can stop them?

Unlike the attack on Iraq five years ago, to deal with Iran there need be no massing of troops. And, with the propaganda buildup already well under way, there need be little, if any, forewarning before shock and awe and pox – in the form of air and missile attacks – begin.

This time it will be largely the Air Force’s show, punctuated by missile and air strikes by the Navy. Israeli-American agreement has now been reached at the highest level; the armed forces planners, plotters and pilots are working out the details.

Emerging from a 90-minute White House meeting with President George W. Bush on June 4, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the two leaders were of one mind:

If Bush doesn't start a war with Iran, President Giuliani will. That's a promise.

I find Giuliani to be the personally most unattractive individual running for president. Please, Republicans: not him.

The current mood, where people hold their breath all day long on September 11, and suspect the US government of plotting a nuclear attack on its own citizens, is sick. Why do so many people feel like passengers on a runaway train headed for a steep cliff? Why is it that nearly 90% of respondents say that Bush should be impeached, yet nothing happens? I will be a very happy person if 2008 rolls around, we get a new president (just not McCain or Giuliani or Thompson) and no enormous catastrophes have been perpetrated and Iran has not been attacked.

America is about to start a third war, a war that can be avoided, a war that is sick in its conception and intent. We are about to attack Iran - every piece of evidence would indicate this is the case. WHERE ARE THE PROTESTS???

"I don’t think it’s limited at all. We are shipping in and assigning every damn Tomahawk we have in inventory. I think this is going to be massive and sudden, like thousands of targets. I believe that no American will know when it happens until after it happens. And whatever the consequences, whatever the consequences, they will have to be lived with. I am sure if my father knew I was telling someone in a news organization that we were about to launch a supposedly secret attack that it would be treason. But something inside me tells me to tell it anyway."

Here's the point: if Bush *wants* to attack Iran (and it seems he does), he has the tools to do so. This is like loaning a person your hand so that they can murder someone with it. In the end... your hand commits the murder. When Bush orders an attack on a country, it is American soldiers who do the killing, and it is the American taxpayer who bankrolls it. It is the American voter who elected Bush (supposedly), and it is the lack of effective oversight and the failing of checks and balances that allows these things to happen without proper discussion or consensus. Here's the link.

The study concludes that the US has made military preparations to destroy Iran’s WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed forces, state apparatus and economic infrastructure within days if not hours of President George W. Bush giving the order. The US is not publicising the scale of these preparations to deter Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely. The US retains the option of avoiding war, but using its forces as part of an overall strategy of shaping Iran’s actions.

If you haven't noticed, the United States is preparing for a war in Iran. They've put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list, there are murmurings about reinstating the draft, and unnamed administration officials are beginning to whisper of its inevitability. Many think that the Bush administration will attack Americans themselves and blame Iran, just to get the ball rolling. American troops have already been in Iran collecting targeting data.

So I hope Americans like sending their sons and daughters to Afghanistan and Iraq, because fighting Iran is going to be at least as hard as those two wars put together. The amount of resources (American lives and money) will be staggering. If you could see the price tag for this war, in terms of dollars, deaths, damage to our international standing, loss of support from allies, degraded security at home and abroad, you would revolt. The war with Iran is not something that Americans want to pay for. What benefit we could possibly get for once again invading another Middle East country is not worth the suffering. The pain America has felt in the past six years is minor compared to the pain a war with Iran will bring us, especially since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are not finished. George Bush, Dick Cheney, I blame you for making the world a much worse place to live.