IRAN/IRAQ? IRAQ/IRAN? What's the difference?

"And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq: Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your country. (Applause.) And the day he and his regime are removed from power will be the day of your liberation. (Applause.)"
--january 28, 2003
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html

"Tonight, let me speak directly to the citizens of Iran: America respects you, and we respect your country. We respect your right to choose your own future and win your own freedom. And our nation hopes one day to be the closest of friends with a free and democratic Iran. (Applause.)
--january 31, 2006
http://www.whitehouse.gov/stateoftheunion/2006/

(randi rhodes mentioned this today--bush was talking to the people of iraq before we bombed the crap out of them. last night he was talking to the people of iran. this is not a good sign.)

will go Euro and so it goes..

Battle plans for Iran http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11743.htm

We should now be focused on how Washington intends to carry out its war plans, since war appears to be inevitable.

Those who doubt that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld team will attack Iran, while so conspicuously overextended in Iraq, are ignoring the subtleties of the administration’s Middle East strategy.

Bush has no intention of occupying Iran. Rather, the goal is to destroy major weapons-sites, destabilize the regime, and occupy a sliver of land on the Iraqi border that contains 90% of Iran’s oil wealth. Ultimately, Washington will aim to replace the Mullahs with American-friendly clients who can police their own people and fabricate the appearance of representative government. But, that will have to wait. For now, the administration must prevent the incipient Iran bourse (oil-exchange) from opening in March and precipitating a global sell-off of the debt-ridden dollar. There have many fine articles written about the proposed “euro-based” bourse and the devastating effects it will have on the greenback. The best of these are “Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar” by William R. Clark, and “The Proposed Oil Bourse” by Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11674.htm

i wish that article was dated. i can't find a date on it.

:scared: :nuke: freaked me out.

The only thing Bush wants to liberate is their oil, and even that is secondary to his desire to beat the drums of war for the 2006 elections.

Fool me once, shame on ... you.

Fool me ....