military action

Dick Cheney should be considered the biggest threat to American security - period. The man wants nothing but war, and won't stop until he gets another one:

The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.

"Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions," Cheney said in a speech to the Washington Institute
for Near East Studies.

He said Iran's efforts to pursue technology that would allow it to build a nuclear weapon are obvious and that "the regime continues to practice delay and deceit in an obvious effort to buy time."

If Iran continues on its current course, Cheney said the U.S. and other nations are prepared to take action. The vice president made no specific reference to military action.

I really think his pace-maker is malfunctioning and shocking his brain instead.

Then we had Giuliani saying war with Iran wouldn't be that bad at the debate last night. Not that bad? Yeah I guess Iraq wasn't that bad either. I mean the dead soldiers are only a "small price to pay" according to John Boehner. I guess Giuliani is planning on it taking only a couple of months and I bet the oil will pay for it! Hey - why didn't they sell the Iraq war like that? Oh wait....

Like I have been saying, the Democrats need to simply say "If you want World War 3 then vote Republican". They do get their rocks off on war, look at how easily they beat the drums. Pretty bad for a bunch of pussies who don't have the guts to fight in a war.

With the death of Zarqawi brings a new and interesting question - could we have helped out al Qaeda?

To help you understand this line of thinking, let's go back in the near past (h/t to Think Progress on this one):

Jordanian-born al Qaeda militant Abu Musab Zarqawi has been replaced as head of the terrorist organization in Iraq in a bid to put an Iraqi figure at the head of the group's struggle, said a leading Islamist.

But terrorism specialists were divided on whether the move represented a demotion for the figure most closely identified with a wave of suicide bombings and beheadings or a move by Zarqawi to focus his efforts on a larger regional war.

Huthayafa Azzam, whose father is seen as a political mentor of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, told reporters in Jordan over the weekend that Zarqawi, who has not made a public statement in months, was no longer the head of al Qaeda in Iraq and that his role "has been limited to military action."

Azzam, who claims close contacts with leading insurgents inside Iraq, said Zarqawi had "made many political mistakes," including kidnappings and beheadings that sparked popular revulsion and unauthorized operations outside Iraq, such as the November bombing of a Jordanian hotel.

The resistance command inside and outside Iraq, including imams, criticized [Zarqawi] and after long discussions demanded that he be confined to military action," Azzam told the Associated Press and other news outlets.

Well it appears that Iran is looking to develop a nuclear bomb.

IAEA confirms Iran prepares for nuclear
enrichment

31 Jan 2006 18:55:07 GMT

Source: Reuters

VIENNA, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog confirmed on Tuesday
that Iran had begun preparing for nuclear enrichment, which can make fuel
for bombs, and continued to hinder a probe of unanswered questions about
Iran's atomic aims.

In a confidential report to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA)
board of governors, the agency said Iran had not yet begun enrichment itself
but had started renovation work at its Natanz enrichment site.

Iran also prevented U.N. inspectors from questioning a key scientist
linked to the procurement of equipment that could have been used to make
weapons and did not let the IAEA copy documents related to the production of
nuclear weapons, the report said.

Article link.

What is disturbing about this is the fact that Iraq has taken such a toll on
our forces and is possibly leaving us in a weaken state should we have to go
into military action against Iran. This was one of the problems brought up when
the argument was taking place over going to war with Iraq.

On our Independence Day weekend, we are confronted with more fact that the
Bush White House is up to some not so legitimate games. Please bear with me
throughout the length of this posting, as I am going to start to assemble pieces
of the puzzle for all my readers. I will be quoting numerous articles throughout
and, as always, will be posting the appropriate links to them.

May 1, 2005 – The Publishing of the Downing Street Memo in London Times

This was the start that really put the blogosphere in high speed. The memo
was published in the London Times, and ignored by the United States mainstream
media for five weeks following. As matter of fact in recent articles regarding
the media’s ignoring of this pertinent document, they are starting to admit that
they dropped the ball.

The Downing Street Memo is an official British Document, or more so minutes,
where the head of British Intelligence, MI6, detailed a meeting in Washington
that took place in the spring of 2002. The most notorious paragraph of this
document involving the pending war in Iraq is as follows:

C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift
in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove
Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and
WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The
NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing
material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in
Washington of the aftermath after military action.

Memorial Day is upon us. A day in which we honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice defending our great nation. It's a time when families and friends gather to cook out, an extra day of rest from the normal work week, and the kick off to the summer season. A holiday we have celebrated in our great country for nearly 140 years.

This Memorial Day weekend though, lets take time to remember what the holiday is about, and those who do not have the luxury of the get together's the rest of us will. Let's reflect upon those 1657 (as of May 30, 2005 10:00 am est) who did give the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and the ten's of thousands of troops who are still there fighting to this day, with no end in sight.

Now I am not saying to have disregard for the memories of other fallen soldiers from previous wars. They also are entitled to the remembrance by the citizens of our great country. The difference however is the fact that they were fighting actual wars for our great country. Those 1657 that gave the ultimate sacrifice did so in a war based upon falsified data and scare tactics used to get the support needed to launch a war. Those 1657 that have died, did so because of lies and a personal agenda that was being adhered to by the President of the United States and his cronies.

May 1, 2005. The Sunday Times in Britain released the now infamous Downing Street Memo. This memo, distributed to top british military and government officials, stated in July 2002 that the United states had plans to pursue a war in Iraq. The memo actually was a view into the near future, saying that: