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I believe that ANY attack on Iran will be a Pandora's box of horror, and that any attack on Iran will inevitably involve nukes sooner or later.

When will the Dems wake up to this?

I'm as against a preemptive strike against Iran as any of us are, and not to be disrespectful, but I have to disagree, Iran has attacked us before, and the year was 1983:

The Build-up to War with Iran and Syria

I have written this particular piece because I have noticed that CNN and other stations are making note of the Marine Barracks and Embassy bombings in Lebanon back in 1983'. I have also noted they haven't told the whole story - one that revealed we had the "smoking gun" on Iran and Syria for those bombings, and the CIA Agent who found the evidence, the smoking-gun, lost his position and the US withdrew from Lebanon. It seems that our own internal propaganda machine is at work to inform the American people that Iran is indeed the culprit - thus attempting to justify military action. Yes, they were involved, but wiping Iran off of the map for crimes that should have been addressed in 1983 makes little or no sense to me.

When the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was decimated by a car bomb in 1983, it was not just a symbolic strike against America. Someone deliberately targeted those they believed were calling the shots in this volatile region--the CIA. Nearly the entire Middle East CIA Station was wiped out. The agency called on "Captain Crunch" Keith Hall, a former Marine who was one of the CIA's best men in the field. Keith arrived in Beirut with the full resources of a battered agency behind him--and a difficult mission in front. LINK

Note: The link above is for the DVD from the History Channel that has documented this event quite well. I have never understood why we withdrew without retaliating for the brutal murders of our soldiers - and why America has never been told the entire truth! Instead, we withdrew, and now face a much more powerful and resolute Iran. Go figure!

I've written a lot in regard Iran and what I believe is an inevitable Israeli sponsored or bi-lateral attack on Iran, especially in the past two articles:

Iran - a prelude to War

The Eve of Des
truction - Iran & Bush, Part III MORE

We literally had the "smoking Gun of Syrian and Iranian involvement, yet I believe it was Ronald Reagan who was in office back then, and rather than retaliating against an unprovoked attack that murdered over 240 United States citizens, mostly Marines, the United States chose to "cut and run" rather than facing the issue when we stood upon the moral high-ground to do so.

Ask yourselves if we would have responded appropriately back then, immediately after we were in possession of the hard evidence, would we still face this situation as we do in Iran? I don't think so, but instead politics got in the way - and Iran and Syria were able to get-away with wholesale murder of American Military and other civilians, US citizens, which I believe served to embolden them to further their agenda in supporting terrorist organizations, financially, with supplies, and even by "boots on the ground" as was the case in the recent war in Lebanon.

I've studied Iran for years, and written several pieces that demonstrate in many ways they are a threat - but when you look at an administration that hasn't done anything without thousands of people dying, the thought of attempting to solve the issues which could easily escalate into WWIII by the Bush administration is akin to hanging-off a cliff, and knowing the rope will break at any moment! You know it's a matter of time before the rope breaks.

The Russians' have a nick-name for George W. Bush; it's "The Master of Disaster"!

If he attacks Iran, the probability of it escalating is guaranteed, we'll find ourselves under martial law and likely suffer several major terrorist attacks that far out-shadow 911, as they will be accomplished by and through the corporate elites who have lobbied and stalled anything meaningful in regard securing our southern border, and we already have evidence that Iranian QUDs Force and Hezbollah elements who have already penetrated our security and now dwell in our own country, courtesy of an administration that can't even walk and chew bubble-gum. :( Jeez, put him in a loony bin while most of us are still alive!

JAC