Regime change in Iran now in Bush’s sights

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PRESIDENT George Bush has promised that if re-elected in November he will make regime change in Iran his new target.
Bush named Iran as part of the Axis of Evil along with North Korea and Iraq almost three years ago. A US government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that military action would not be overt in changing Iran, but rather that the US would work to stir revolts in the country and hope to topple the current conservative religious leadership.

The official said: “If George Bush is re-elected there will be much more intervention in the internal affairs of Iran.”

The Iranian government announced this weekend that it had successfully eradicated all al-Qaeda cells operating in the country, but the statement comes as leaked reports from the US September 11 Commission show definite links between Iran and the September 11 terrorists.

The final report from the cross-party inquiry, which is examining the origins of the September 11 attacks, is believed to contain concrete evidence of contacts between al-Qaeda and Iran.

Time magazine reports that at least eight of the hijackers, who lived in the US for months before the attacks, passed through Iran between October 2000 and February 2001 apparently with help from the Iranian authorities.

Known al-Qaeda members also seem to have been allowed to cross in and out of Iran freely across the Afghan border, with Iranian border guards being told not to stamp the passports of al-Qaeda operatives, harass them or hinder their ability to travel freely.

The report is thought to hint that Iranian officials were ordered to assist al-Qaeda operatives with any travel needs.

The September 11 Commission report will, however, stop short of stating that Iran was aware of the plans for the September 11 attacks.

Tehran has always officially denied helping members of al-Qaeda escape from Afghan istan in 2001 when the Taliban regime fell.

State television in Iran yesterday showed the country’s intelligence minister announcing the capture of a number of al-Qaeda supporters.

Ali Yunesi said: “Iran’s intelligence apparatus has identified and arrested small Iranian deviate branches of the al-Qaeda group.” There was no clarification on how many people had been arrested or charged.

Yunesi warned that Iran would take a tough line against militants using Iran as a base. “Those who seek to misuse the safe situation in Iran will face serious consequences,” he said.

The Iranian government says it has arrested and repatriated hundreds of al-Qaeda suspects in the past two years in a display of willingness to bring terrorism in the Middle East under control.

A suspected Saudi al-Qaeda militant, Khaled al-Harbi, who appeared in a videotape with Osama bin Laden, gave himself up in Iran last week, and was flown back to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

On Friday US officials said the next stage of the September 11 Commission’s report would be available this week.

There was embarrassment for the Bush administration last week when it emerged a tight deadline was being pushed for the capture of Osama bin Laden to generate headlines during the Democratic Convention when presidential rival John Kerry will be grabbing the limelight.

Pakistani security forces have apparently been given deadlines to capture bin Laden that are before the US general election in November, according to US sources.

Jennifer Johnston Sunday Herald on-line
 

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Making a regime change to control terrorism is like imprisoning senators to eliminate the mafia....I guess instead of capturing the unabomber we should have just taken the governor of Montana out of office???

Besides Iran and N Korea, are there other countries we should invade? Has the leader of Canada kicked his dog yet?
 

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You've got LOADS to choose from apart from Iran

Syria
Yemen
Saudi
Sudan
Lybia
Pakistan
Indonesia

Currently stable, but could change.
George is working on alienating them...

Egypt
Jordan

N.Korea is not an option, with or without nukes.

The chinese would go APESHIT if the US tried to push into any country on their border.

Even at the height of Vietnam, no combat troops put thier toes over the border, the Korean war was a warning well heeded.

China has been careful to buffer its borders from the Yankees.
 

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eek....looking over your list of countries made me think of a couple of things....

Given the fact that George, if re-elected only has 4 more years in power....

Do you honestly think he can go through that list of countries and get finished with it in 4 years....looks like a pretty tall order.

I guess what I'm saying is that it's awful hard to invade every country on the planet and piss off everyone on the planet in four short years.
 

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It won't stop you trying, George is on a mission from God.

It was Henry Kissinger who said, "Of all the despots I've had to deal with, none was more ruthless than Donald Rumsfeld."

Rumsfeld Tells Congress Changes Needed to Increase Flexibility
"Today, we estimate we have some 320,000 uniformed people doing nonmilitary jobs, yet we are calling up reserves to fight the global war on terror," he said.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/dod/n02052003_200302057.htm

Plus there's about another 350,000 not at a desk.(150,000 of which are in Iraq)

An additional 'emergency' $110 billion over the last couple of financial years,
On top of current spending- see graph.

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The US military is like pacman, munching through incredible amounts of resources.

A defence force it aint, its got too big now.
Bin Laden is a gift from Santa, he can be used to justify and even increase a totally insane level of spending.

And that's before the draft, or a full reserves call-up.

(I'm glad I'm not a yank.)

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Theres all that 'Homeland security' stuff too.
How much is that costing??

And all for a few thousand ak-47 waving towelheads...
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[This message was edited by eek on July 19, 2004 at 10:05 PM.]
 

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I see you list the US as having spent 420.7 billion.....

....I think about 419 billion of this went to Halliburton...
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