The war in Iraq became unpopular for ONE major reason: people who were slapping on insipid car magnets and tattered antenna flags are disappointed and angry that they did not get the “cakewalk” victory that they were promised. Many of those folks are just itching for another fight, one that they would not be participating in directly, of course.

From this “insider’s” perspective, the U.S. government is indeed capable of anything, not just almost anything. Look at the list of police-state legislation imposed since 2001, from the (Clinton-administration-proposed) patriot act, to the treasonous Harman bill for monitoring the public Internet. And look at how the pathetic U.S. herd has accepted imposition of the police state, surveillance cameras, and strip searches at airports, bleating the mantra of, “If I have done nothing wrong, I have nothing to fear.” Guess that lends some credence to your assertion that “our” government answers to the “will” of the people occasionally, since a lack of opposition indicates support for these reprehensible actions.

As well, I consider it a pipe dream to consider that the current U.S. military is incapable of unleashing devastation on Iran. The decision whether to do so is solely a matter of politics.

I also do not consider Obama to be much in the way of a lesser evil in terms of his foreign (or any other) policy. He has prostrated himself before the AIPAC Zionists, and he has spoken of “fixing” the unbroken Social Security program by exploring raising the retirement age, lowering benefits, and increasing the Social Security tax rate, with no mention of extending the current tax to include ALL income, not just that below $90,000 (though those high earners still get the full benefit even after paying a smaller proportion of their income in Social Security taxes). In my opinion, he is just as likely to unleash the military on Iran and to implement wealth-favoring domestic programs as McCain is.

The current “congress” does indeed have a democratic majority in the House, but not in the Senate, given the games being played by the turncoat Lieberman. In both houses, however, democrats join republicans in being criminally complicit in war crimes by continuing to enable the war of aggression in Iraq by voting for every military appropriation presented to them. On other issues, the pretend democrats (blue dogs and such) show their true right-wing colors by voting with their real compatriots, the republicans (and neither “party” deserves capitalization in written reference).

I understand your resentment and anger towards the United States. As a citizen of the U.S. myself, I regularly find the actions of my government reprehensible. I am truly sorry for all the terrible things the United States has done in the past and continues to do in the present, particularly to citizens of other nations.

It was very easy to see the Iraq war coming, it was blatantly obvious. What’s more, the American Zeitgeist at the time was one of blind patriotism and belligerence. These were optimal conditions for the Bush administration to exploit in order to go to war with Iraq.

However, I have to disagree with your assessment that a U.S. invasion of Iran is a plausible scenario. I don’t doubt that the Bush administration would love to invade Iran, and had probably even planned to do so as the next step after Iraq. However, the Bush administration’s vision of how the Iraq war would go was shortsighted and inaccurate, and as a result they lost the support of the populace.

Now the Iraq war is unpopular with a majority of Americans, and so too is the Bush administration itself. Bush’s troop surge has been extremely unpopular as well, and most Americans just want to get out of Iraq. This is the year of a presidential election, and with Bush being so unpopular, it is increasingly likely that the Democrats will win the presidency, while retaining or increasing their majorities in the House and Senate.

Although Americans are easily manipulated by their government, they simply won’t stand for another war right now. There wouldn’t even be anyone to fight the war, as the U.S. military can only draw from voluntary recruitment (which is dwindling as it is). There’s not even the smallest possibility that a draft count be reinstated, as the Democrats wouldn’t let it happen with their control of the House and Senate.

I know that from an outsider’s perspective, the U.S. must seem capable of almost anything. However, as much as certain powers would like it to be so, the U.S. is not all-powerful. It has to answer to the will of the people occasionally.

This is not to say that the U.S. won’t invade Iran in the future. One certainly can’t rule it out, even within the next ten years (especially if McCain miraculously manages to win the election). In the immediate future, though, I can assure you it’s not a possibility.

Besides, I don’t mind what you think about the likelihood of an attack .
I can’t neglect the brutal military force of a far away country at my doorstep, a country who has the nasty habit of attacking weaker nations .
Keep your comfortable corner for now, entertaining TV shows are waiting for you to make you feel
happy.

However there are signs that perhaps for once the military is just saying ‘No’.

I believe those nukes that ‘accidentally’ (impossibly) were transported across the country may have been intended for Iran eventually, and the Air Force blew the whistle. I hope so.

Maybe instead of bombing Iran, America could instead apologise for deposing the Prime Minister in 1953 (when Iran had the audacity to declare its oil its own) and installing the odious and torturous Shah. That would be a start.

In a similar vein, did you consider that this might be Vahab’s first public writing except for engineering reports, he might be fluent in several languages; he might have asked some American friends, including a niece who just finished her university degree, to help him with polishing his understanding of syntax and semantics conventions in English as pertaining to this particular composition; he might have been imprisoned and severely tortured for holding socialist views during Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s reign and, on account of disturbing memories, he does not wish to do anything in his country to draw negative attention to himself?

On another note, please consider that many diverse and well informed individuals in the US, like Paul Craig Roberts and Scott Ritter, and other luminaries abroad do consider that there is some likelihood of an attack on Iran. Even if remote in actuality, it could happen. As such, anyone in Iran must keep alert to the possibility. Meanwhile, we back in the USA need to do so, too.

This in mind, you might want to read Stefan Steinberg’s “Bush In Germany Beats Drum For War Against
Iran,” Dana Milbank’s “It’s a Mitzvah” or any number of other recent assessments of the topic. Your doing could provide a way to measure the loudness of the drums and the depth of redness in any related flags.

Neither is it hard at all to accept the poll results cited by the author — whatever that author’s motives may be — that most USans favor an attack on Iran. Hell, a majority in this pathetically backward, pathetically meanspirited and bullyish country would favor, or could be soon convinced to favor, an attack on almost anyone … at almost any time. Just read a little history. After all, nearly a majority of those voting put the current criminals into power, twice, and continue to give majorities to the criminally complicit in “congress”.

Eventually the U.S. government will overstep its capabilities to wage war, but it isn’t there yet, certainly not with respect to its capabilities to wage war with Iran. And, as soon as the first bombs fall, watch USans fall into line with 80 or 90 percent support for the killing.

That being said, anyone who thinks that invasion of Iran by a US military force is possibly imminent is living on another planet. The US has no military forces left with which to invade anywhere. It couldn’t even invade Liechtenstein, even supposing it had a general who knew where Liechtenstein was! So whatever might happen, a US military force is definitely not going to invade Iran!

For that reason, the rest of the article is just fiction. A Hollywood script. If the US launched air strikes against Iran (and that’s all they could do), the common sense thing for the Iranians to do would be … nothing! All they would have to is to to the UN as the agressed party and a resoultion would be put down, which the US would discredit itself by vetoing. Since the Iranians have successfully been playing world power politics for several thousand years, and have managed the current conflict with supreme aplomb, why would they now suddenly let themselves be provoked? All they need to do is sit tight! This article doesn’t make sense!

To come back to Mr “Vahab” (Google him!), does it not strike you as odd that someone who (supposedly!) has lived “most of his life in Iran” has such a flawless and colloquial command of English? I make more mistakes than he does! My political nose smells some sort of false flag operation here.