Planet Earth: Condition Yellow Stop War Now!

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Read the verdict of the world tribunal on Iraq Lawyers against the war The world has come extremely close to total destruction just in recent years from nuclear war. -- Noam Chomsky Much of the world regards the United States as a rogue state, one of the greatest external threats to their existence. -- Samuel Huntington, Harvard Professor, Foreign Affairs The military programs and aggressive stance of the Bush administration carry appreciable risk of ultimate doom. --John Steinbrenner and Nancy Gallagher, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Coming War on Iran. Fox News Fans the Hysteria

"Fox is aggressively agitating for war with Iran. On shows such as Hannity and Combs, guest after guest--Newt Gingrich, Ollie North, various retired generals, pundits, and even Democratic politicians--agitate for attacking Iran."

Can a Nuclear Strike on Iran Be Prevented? Or will the world allow it to happen?

Nuclear War against Iran

Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, U.S. military document

U.S. Nuclear First Strike Doctrine Is Operational. (Official document)

• Integrating conventional and nuclear attacks will ensure the most efficient use of force [...]. Integration of conventional and nuclear forces is therefore crucial to the success of any comprehensive strategy."

Project for the New American Century:

• "America should seek to preserve and extend its position of global leadership by maintaining the preeminence of U.S. military forces."
• "Challenge regimes hostile to U.S. interests and values."

U.S. Air Force space command strategic master plan:

• Instant Engagement Anywhere.
• Ensure U.S. Military Dominance.

• "The number one objective of U.S. post-Cold War political and military strategy should be preventing the emergence of a rival superpower."
• "we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power...[W]e must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role."

• "deterrence through the threat of use of nuclear weapons will continue to be our top military strategy."
• "Because of the value that comes from the ambiguity of what the US may do to an adversary if the acts we seek to deter are carried out, it hurts to portray ourselves as too fully rational and cool-headed. The fact that some elements may appear to be potentially "out of control" can be beneficial to creating and reinforcing fears and doubts thin the minds of an adversary's decision makers. This essential sense of fear is the working force of deterrence. That the US may become irrational and vindictive if its vital interests are attacked should be part of the national persona we project to all adversaries."
• "It is, however, crucial that the level of our commitment to the things we value be unfaltering, and that the adversary have little doubt of this. Without saying exactly what the consequences will be if the US has to respond, whether the reaction would either be responsive or preemptive, we must communicate in the strongest ways possible the unbreakable link between our vital interests and the potential harm that will be directly attributable to anyone who damages (or even credibly threatens to damage) that which we hold of value. Thus, it is undesirable to adopt declaratory policies such as "no first use" which serve to specifically limit US nuclear deterrence goals without providing equitable returns."

Further reading:

• Chomsky: 'There Is No War On Terror'
• Israel, Iran, and the US: Nuclear War, Here We Come
• Nuclear Terror at Home, Noam Chomsky
• A grim nuclear question-mark hangs over the planets future, by Praful Bidwai
• LaRouche Warns: Cheney's `Guns of August' Threaten the World
• May Day 2005: Sixty years since the end of World War II
• Sixty years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, part three: American militarism and the nuclear threat today
• Poll: Six in 10 Americans Expect New World War
• False Pride of the 'super outlaw state', by Raymond Ponziny
• The Game: Rules of Engagement, by Ryan McGreal
• The dangers of fundamentalist beliefs on george bush and on u.s. foreign policy

"The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons."

"Philip Giraldi, a former intelligence officer in the CIA (and DIA), claims that the United States is developing a plan for the bombing of supposed military targets in Iran, which would include the use of nuclear weapons."

"Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger gave one of the more reckless responses to the London bombings Thursday (July 7, 2005) when he proposed that the U.S. bomb or invade Syria and possibly Iran in retaliation."

"Saturday night, August 7 2004, Iranian defense minister Admiral Ali Shamkhani came out with a disturbing announcement. He said Iran will soon test an improved version of its new ballistic Shehab-3 missile whose 1300-km range covers every part of Israel."

Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani stressed that Iran`s recent test of Shahab-3 missile was successful, saying his ministry is ready to test it again `in the presence of observers`. [...] He said, "Given that an effective deterrent policy does not halt at a certain point, the Islamic Republic of Iran continues upgrading its defensive capability."

Britain, France and Germany are to promise Iran that it will not face military attack if it abandons enriching uranium, the key to building a nuclear bomb, a senior Iranian official said yesterday. [...] "As we did not receive the EU proposal, naturally we will definitely resume work at the Isfahan plant tomorrow," a senior Iranian nuclear official told the Reuters news agency. "Israel plans strike on Iranian nuclear plant."

"Hersh combines his revelations about US operations in Iran--themselves acts of war under international law--with an account of steps towards an enormous expansion of what the Pentagon calls the `Global War on Terrorism'."