The Countdown to Iran attack

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   According to the latest sings of U$ domestic and international diplomatic activity, the event of a major war against Iran is become more of an imminent reality rather than a distant threat. A revealing list of events shows a clear direction to war with Iran in same road that the Iraq war was concocted.

-   At home the US congress has passed in a startling 97-0 vote an amendment that states Iran has committed "acts of war " against US and Iran's 125,000 strong IRGC is a "terrorist organization" in its alleged relation of building IDE explosives and training Shiite "terrorists" in Lebanon against Isreal.

-   New carriers, new military staff(supportive of neo-cons) and the "Surge" sent to Iraq could be be a large scale preparation for the war to come in order to dismantle Iran's regime.

-   Nearly all of the major candidates for the 2008 elections Republican or Democrat have declared that "all options are on the table" in regards to dealings with Iran and some have even stated that tactical nuclear missiles are not out of the question in this upcoming war!

"I would authorize the use of tactical nuclear weapons if there was no other way to preempt those particular centrifuges," - Rep. Duncan Hunter

 Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said he believed that the job "could be done with conventional weapons," but he added that "you can't rule out anything and you shouldn't take any option off the table."

-   Isreal's Foreign Minister has announced in July 2007 that " if we (Israel) starts this coflict on our own, then Europe and the US will join". OK he might be a little too optimistic about Europe excluding the UK but as for the rest....
In addition Israeli special forces are said to be already operating inside Iran to find the country's hidden nuclear sites and to gather more intelligence.

-   US and Isreali commandos units are reportedly equipping and training Iranian rebels  with links to Kurdish communities in Iran as well as Syria. 

-   US STRATCOM has recently implemented a new massive plan to deal with Iran named Global Strike, which reportedly has the capability to hit over 10,000 targets in a massive mission within hours of a presidential order.

Aside from all these, a shocking revelation has also been confirmed by General Westley Clark days after the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US, detailing US Middle East policy in the years to come. I am copying this from the report I got some of the above details from:

�About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, �Sir, you�ve got to come in and talk to me a second.� I said, �Well, you�re too busy.� He said, �No, no.� He says, �We�ve made the decision we�re going to war with Iraq.� This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, �We�re going to war with Iraq? Why?� He said, �I don�t know.� He said, �I guess they don�t know what else to do.� So I said, �Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?� He said, �No, no.� He says, �There�s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.� He said, �I guess it�s like we don�t know what to do about terrorists, but we�ve got a good military and we can take down governments.� And he said, �I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.� So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, �Are we still going to war with Iraq?� And he said, �Oh, it�s worse than that.� He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, �I just got this down from upstairs� -- meaning the Secretary of Defense�s office -- �today.� And he said, �This is a memo that describes how we�re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.� I said, �Is it classified?� He said, �Yes, sir.� I said, �Well, don�t show it to me.� And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, �You remember that?� He said, �Sir, I didn�t show you that memo! I didn�t show it to you!� (emphasis added)

General Wesley Clark, March 2nd 2007, describing a conversation in the Pentagon in September 2001 on www.democracynow.org

N.B. Since 2001 of the seven countries mentioned; The regime has been changed in Iraq, Lebanon and Somalia. The Libyan government has changed orientation an aligned with the West. The positions of the Sudan and Syrian governments have weakened. Iran remains defiant and is logically and factually next in line.

Considering the stunning ramifications(actually you can't even imagine) of this upcoming war will have and the fact that the Iraq occupation alone could go well over 1 trillion dollars, maybe even 2, then how will a nation already in great debt pay for this? It seems the only ones hurt will be the vast majority of working people, not the plutocrats that these wars are launched to protect the first place. 
Meanwhile the effects on the political stage will be difficult to fathom but probably it will throw the world into another pre-WWI scenario while severely destabilising the whole Middle East region.