Straussians...

Cheney and Rumsfeld and company are desperate to attack and neutralize Iran. As the administration sinks lower in the polls, only a staged 'false flag' pretext can 'justify' their scheme. The battle plans were drawn up years ago- since we are already overextended conventionally, we will use small, tactical nuclear weapons, and Rumsfeld really believes this will inspire dissident elements inside Iran to rise up against the Mullahs. It won't- our attack will unify the Iranian nation. To rationalize the impending assault, the pretext must be nuclear in nature, and probably will occur here in the USA. The symbolism of the target must maximize the anger of ordinary citizens, i.e., a heartland assault (Ohio?). The incident might be minor, like a dirty bomb that only kills a few hundred, or we could lose a whole city.

The adminstration is so out of touch with reality, and so sadistic and pathological that they might actually do it. Right now the Republicans are about to lose both chambers- and could face criminal inquiries as a result- they need another 9-11 to maintain their sick grip upon the American imagination.

Roosevelt allowed Pearl Harbor to happen ....the Battleship Maine was blown up so we could go into Cuba in 1900...the gulf of tonkin event in 1965 was largely manufactured and led to our immediate escalation of the Vietnam conflict..... top Pentagon brass devised a scheme to bomb our own civilian airlines in 1961, so we could blame Castro -'Operation Northwoods'.

The Neocon plan can be thwarted- if word gets out to enough people beforehand, the way it was probably averted last August.

America has been taken over by a cult- the extreme Neo-cons. Their goal is an American Empire with no rivals, - Iraq being merely a forward base for gobbling up the mineral wealth of central Asia, before Russia,China, or India seizes the opportunity. The Neocons scorn democracy and thrive on deception, they are followers of the late crypto-fascist Leo Strauss. Michael Ledeen and George Schultz are pulling the strings of Cheney-Bush. The PNAC declaration and scheme for tyranny is available for all to see.

There can never be a 'war on terror'- terror is a tactic- its like saying there is a war on 'bombing.'

'Democracy' is the Neocon code word for imperial international corporate feudal-fascism.

There is hope- the individual can change, and organize, until the current clique is ousted by public opinion and we are restored to a Republic that minds its own business, dealing squarely with other nations ...

As i write, the former ambassador to Azerbajan (Mr. Escorbido) is trying to convince the Azerbajis to completely support our coming attack on Iran- we need their airfields for the operation...