The slippery slope of bombing Iran

Come-on Pepe, the issue regarding Iran Nuclear Weapons is really about “containing Iranian” and its regional influence as well as curbing the influence or Russia and China. The nukes are just a scare tactic that helps grease the skids of ‘popular support’ to make war more acceptable to the people who will have to foot the bill and suffer the consequences of Western oil greed and weapons market adventurism. – Phlipn.

Bomb Iran fever
Pepe Escobar – THE ROVING EYE – 8 August, 2012 – Asia Time

Where’s the great Christopher Walken when we need him? “I’ve got a fever! And the only prescription is … Bomb Iran!” That’s the story, at least in Israel. Fever pitch will rule at least for the next six months.

This past weekend, the Israel Hayom newspaper – financed by casino mogul and Mitt Romney groupie Sheldon Adelson – dedicated a whole supplement to the fever. Lead articles had titles such as “Bomb or Bombing: Poker with the Cards Close to the Vest.”

Yet earlier last week, a leak to the Yediot Ahronot daily revealed that the cream of Israel’s military leaders are against war on Iran – known in its aseptic version as “preemptive strike”.

It’s an impressive cast of characters. Here we have chief of the general staff Benny Gantz; the chief of operations of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Ya’akov Ayash; Tamir Pardo, the head of Mossad; Aviv Kochavi, in charge of Aman, the military intelligence directorate; the department heads of Mossad; the head of the Israeli Air Force Amir Eshel; not to mention at least four ministers of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s eight-man “kitchen cabinet”.

There are qualifiers. Some admit they would only support an attack on Iran if Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei – or International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors – announced a major weaponization game changer. Some others admit they will only support an attack if the US is on board; that’s the case of retired Mossad heads Meir Dagan and Efraim Halevy and former chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi. …more