johnny9fingers | Nov. 9th, 2007

Washington tells EU firms: quit Iran now...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2208176,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

Which is all very well.
Is Washington going to instruct Russia, China, and India to do the same?

Russia has recently signed a defense treaty with Iran.
Cheney really wants War. Or he's decided that Russia and China should have exclusive access to Iranian oil. And as an aside, China couldn't give a toss about what Israel wants, either.
Talk about a busted flush.

Couldn't he just put a ship in waters close enough to Iran, get the Israelis to sink it, blame Iran, and use it as pretext to drop a big one on Tehran?
After all, it almost worked for LBJ and the USS Liberty....it's just the Israelis didn't quite sink the Liberty, so the bombers with the H-bombs had to turn back from target Egypt.

http://ussliberty.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/remembering-liberty-and-calling-for-a-second-american-revolution/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

You want to know why the Arabs don't trust the West?

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