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No, there is no attack on Iran. But, judging from the state of the blogosphere this past week, when it comes to claiming the US is going to attack Iran - clearly, you don't need facts to write an inflammatory headline.
Just write something that sounds scary, claim you have a friend or acquaintance who says an attack in immanent, click "post" - and BAM... front-page on the big social networks.
This "immanent" attack of Iran has been going on for years. You'd think people would start treating these claims with skepticism by now. For example, here are the results of a quick Google search for "US to attack Iran":
2004 - Israel will attack Iran, with US backing. Sound the alarm!!!
2005 - Seymour M. Hersh alerts the public! We're gonna attack Iran!!!
2005 - Scott Ritter knows what he's talking about. I'm sure he's right this time.
2006 - The Russians are not controlled by US corporate media - so surely, they must know what they are talking about.
2007 - OMFG! A blogger is writing on DailyKos! IT MUST BE TRUE THIS TIME!!!!!
The above list is a tiny sampling of the numerous chicken-little claims which have popped up every six months or so about an immanent attack on Iran. Thankfully, like predictions of the rapture, they never happen.
Why?
Because as much as Cheney would love to get his NeoCon hands on Iran... it's not economically, politicaly or militarily possible.
Period.
Everything you read to the contrary is hyperbolic ranting from websites trolling for traffic, or bloggers craving attention... and frankly, it's getting on my nerves.
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Sarcasm aside, the "clever sensational headline" thing is utterly lame.
Well Paul
our friend "Uptown Ruler" who is a regular contributor to Scrutiny Hooligans thinks the clock is ticking. He reports:
" Times Online is reporting “The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.
Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said."
and
"Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock: Countdown to Midnight in Persia"
"Chris Floyd writes “Day after day, almost hour by hour, fresh confirmation comes of the impending American attack on Iran. Yet the same surreal malaise that hung over public affairs before the war of aggression against Iraq has descended again."
Is it all just talk? A diversion, while something else is going on? I do not know, but reports are being seriously circulated.
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." Eisenhower, Dwight D.
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." Mill, John Stuart
With all due respect to Uptown Ruler, who is one of Asheville's best bloggers, his post did nothing but add to the unproductive: "Ogga Booga - the US is gonna nuke Iran at any time" conversation this weekend.
As I documented in this post, the media has been fear-mongering about an "immanent attack" on Iran for years - and nothing has come from it. This could have been checked with a simple Google search.
The Kos article referenced has already been debunked, and Markos himself is attempting to shift blame for the fear-mongering onto the readers themselves.
As I've written before, I'm sure the NeoCons want to invade Iran... thankfully, it's not physically possible right now.
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