Moderator: Peak Moderation
Seriously, can you imagine the reaction here if we joined any action on Iran?grinu wrote:The US will use UK like a pawn. Have you noticed that the UK seems to be 'leading' the whole Iran thing?
The trouble with liars, is that they do not know when to stop lying.Totally_Baffled wrote:
Besides, Straw has already said war with Iran is Inconceivable.
You are right, the only way a war with Iran could be sold to the public is by some unspeakable event.Straw will say, when the time comes, that he could not have conceived of
war with Iran with the world as it then was, but because of event
XXXXX the world has changed and we now have to think the unthinkable...
Actually I'm not much of a fan of conspiracy theories generally, and am nuetral overall on the possibility of conflict with Iran.Totally_Baffled wrote: Hmm that maybe delving into conspiracy type stuff.
Like the 'Downing Street Memos' which clearly show that the US/UKTotally_Baffled wrote: I tend to be skeptical about such theories since the government fails to keep trivial things secret , let alone serious stuff like this!
Exactly.RalphW wrote:Like the 'Downing Street Memos' which clearly show that the US/UKTotally_Baffled wrote: I tend to be skeptical about such theories since the government fails to keep trivial things secret , let alone serious stuff like this!
government comprehensively conspired to get us into an illegal
war in Iraq? I for one saw plenty of rumours on the internet
well in advance of the invasion that we were being comprehensively
lied to which later turned out to be 90 -95% accurate.
Iran accuses US of war-mongering: Report
U.S. refuses to rule out Syria strike
Syria and Iran must decide whether they wish to side with the cause of war or with the cause of peace," Rice said at a hearing called to discuss U.S. strategy in Iraq, where more than 150,000 American troops are struggling to end an insurgency.
Pressed by senators over whether the Bush administration was planning military action against Syria in particular, Rice said the United States was still on a "diplomatic course" with Damascus but the military option remained open.
Few months old but interesting....Iran: "The main enemy in this case is the United States. The problem between the Iranian nation and the government of Britain is not one of yesterday or today. Even now, they are taking a very bad position, from the leadership to other officials. Their positions are very bad. But, the main enemy is the US government and, most of all, this warmongering, hard-line and extremist administration is after an empire, a global domination."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO505A.htmlThe Iran War Buildup
Repeating what was said at the outset, there is no evidence that President Bush has already made the decision to attack Iran. But there are many indications that planning for such a move is well under way--and if the record of Iraq (and other wars) teaches us anything, it is that such planning, once commenced, is very hard to turn around.
What got me on Iraq was that reading a single pamphlet containing an interview with Scott Ritter, former US marine and former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, to convince me, and everyone who read it, that Iraq had no WMD. I fully expected some to be planted shortly after the war, just to sell the story - it would have helped TB out at least, if not GWB.RalphW wrote:Like the 'Downing Street Memos' which clearly show that the US/UKTotally_Baffled wrote: I tend to be skeptical about such theories since the government fails to keep trivial things secret , let alone serious stuff like this!
government comprehensively conspired to get us into an illegal
war in Iraq? I for one saw plenty of rumours on the internet
well in advance of the invasion that we were being comprehensively
lied to which later turned out to be 90 -95% accurate.
Then on Sky News World Report, Mr Blair refused to endorse the Foreign Secretary's view that a military confrontation with Iran is "inconceivable".
