FIRE WITH FIRE

By designating Iran's Revolutionary Guards as terrorists, the Bush administration may be creating a monster instead of beheading one.

Formed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Revolutionary Guards function as a national army numbering about 125,000. The Guards are a tightly organized, well-trained, well-armed, well-equipped state military unit. We're not talking about shadows in the night like al-Qaida, Hamas or Hezbollah, other designated terrorists. This is tantamount to putting the US Rangers on a terrorist list. It's the first time the army of a sovereign nation has been called a terrorist by the US.

Because the Guards own and control many of the front companies involved in Iran's nuclear efforts, Bush may be trying to go in the back door. Attacking the Guards may be another way of putting pressure on Iran's nuclear ambitions, said Middle East analyst Georgie Anne Geyer in a recent column. (Geyer writes for United Press Syndicate.) Read Geyer's column here.

But Bush may be putting too much pressure on Iran. "All of us want to back Iran into a corner," said nuclear proliferation expert Joseph Cirincione, "but we want to give them a way out, too." The terrorist designation "will convince many in Iran's elite that there's no point in talking with us and that the only thing that will satisfy us is a regime change."

From recent remarks he has made, it seems that Bush is trying to foment rebellion in Iran. During a recent news conference he said, "My message to the Iranian people is, you can do better than this current government. You don't have to be isolated. You don't have to be in a position where you can't realize your full economic potential."

Bush's attacks on Iran are bound to backfire. Rather than driving apart traditional and liberal elements as he hopes, his efforts will only bind these adversaries in a nationalist movement to protect their country from the US foreign devil.

Labels: foreign policy, Iran, terrorists, US

Posted by The Watcher at Friday, August 24, 2007 | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

The nuclear weapons are in place -- inside America -- and ready for detonation. Al-Qaida is planning a devastating nuclear attack on American soil. American authorities fear that weapons and sleeper agents are already in place. American Hiroshima is ready to blow! Read the whole article here.

That's the chilling news gathered from captured al-Qaida leaders and documents. Apparently, London was just a wind up for a much more savage and devastating attack planned for America this summer or fall. American intelligence agencies have learned that al-Qaida Iraq plans to detonate multiple nuclear weapons on our soil sometime soon.

With the help of the MS-13 street gang and other organized crime groups, anywhere from 10 to 40 nuclear weapons have already been smuggled over the Mexican border and into the US. Obtained from the former Soviet Union over the past 10 years, the weapons include suitcase nukes, nuclear mines, artillery shells and even missile warheads. Captured documents indicate al-Qaida plans to assemble its own nuclear weapons using fissile material purchased on the black market. Bombs are being constructed for detonation by cell phone or clock timer.

According to Paul Williams, a former FBI consultant and author of the book The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse, al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden are financing the attack with hundreds of millions of dollars gained from bin Laden's control of Afghanistan's heroin trade.

Targeting America's biggest cities, bin Laden's goal is to kill 4 million Americans, a least 2 million of them children, to avenge America's purported crimes against Muslims. If he is successful, will America's vengance annihilate the Middle East? Is this the beginning of the end?

Labels: Afghanistan, arms traffic, bomb, heroin, nuclear, organized crime, Osama bin Laden, terrorists

Posted by The Watcher at Thursday, July 19, 2007 | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

• President Bush keeps saying we just need to give his plan more time to work in Iraq.
• The US military says Iraqis are not stepping up to the plate. Increasingly US troops are fighting alone. Allah alone knows where their Iraqi counterparts are hiding.
• Increasingly, Iraqis are turning on themselves. Suicide bombers recently killed 115 Iraqi citizens while they were doing their daily shopping. These weren't political or military targets; just plain old folks trying to survive.
• This week Iraqi politicians called upon Iraqi citizens to arm themselves for their own protection.

I can't believe he hasn't noticed, but unless hell freezes over soon, President Bush's plan doesn't have a prayer of working. The military knows it's not working. Iraqi terrorist and extremists are doing their best to keep it from working. Iraqi citizens have given up. And now Iraqi politicians have thrown in the towel. Even the protesters who gather in front of my local Starbucks every Saturday know Bush's plan is bunk. They still carry signs that say Honk if you support our troops, but the pro-Bush contingent has stopped coming. Only the Down with Bush group still rallies.

Is our president deaf, blind and dumb that he can't see what the rest of the world so clearly sees? Nothing the US does seems to be working in Iraq. Our frustrated military secures one section of the country and the terrorists and extremists pop up somewhere else. Iraq is split in its own thinly veiled civil war, the power struggle between Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds rending the country. The Iraqi military is afraid to fight neighbor against neighbor for fear of retaliation. Iraqi clerics preach hate in the name of Allah while solidifying their power. Iraqi politicians have proved a spineless bunch who would rather feather their own nests than help their countrymen. American citizens (and those of our allies) are fed up and want out NOW.

Perhaps there is too great a cultural divide between Iraq and the US. Perhaps after years of servitude to tribal elders and fanatical clerics, then to a megalomaniac dictator, democracy is a too difficult a concept for Iraqis to grasp. Perhaps Iraqis can only put their differences aside and pull together under the heel of a strong leader. If that's true, the solution to Iraq's problems lies poised on her borders. Iran and Turkey wait there, eager to fill Saddam's shoes.

Labels: foreign policy, Iraq, military, President Bush, suicide bombers, terrorists, war protestors

Posted by The Watcher at Tuesday, July 10, 2007 | Permalink | Comments | links to this post