The article linked below is just one indication that the attacks are planned and already in the early operational phases. Also note: Hersh was reporting in February 2005 about plans to bomb Iran; the "revolt" of the generals against Rumsfeld is clearly an attempt to rest control of the military from Rumsfeld in order to prevent an attack on Iran--but Rumsfeld cannot be removed, even if Bush wanted to, because he is already running the early phases of the current war on Iran; today Joseph "the Jew" Lieberman told the Jerusalem Post that we may well have to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. And: by floating possibility of "pre-emptive" nuclear strikes (did Bush order at least some leaks to Hersh?) the administration has set the boundaries of debate; now the question is not whether but with what degree of massive insane murderous violence we will attack the "mad mullahs."

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Israel Warns of New 'Axis of Terror'

UNITED NATIONS Apr 17, 2006 (AP)— Israel warned Monday that a new "axis of terror" Iran, Syria and the Hamas-run Palestinian government is sowing the seeds of the first world war of the 21st century. The Palestinians accused Israel of an escalating military campaign using indiscriminate force to kill civilians and entrench its occupation.

The Israeli and Palestinian envoys traded charges at an open Security Council meeting held in response to the recent upsurge in Israeli attacks in Gaza. It took place on a day that a Palestinian suicide bomber struck a packed fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv, killing nine people in the deadliest bombing in more than a year.

Recent statements by the Palestinian government, Iran and Syria, including one by Hamas on Monday defending the suicide bombing, "are clear declarations of war, and I urge each and every one of you to listen carefully and take them at face value," said Israel's U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman.

"A dark cloud is looming above our region, and it is metastasizing as a result of the statements and actions by leaders of Iran, Syria, and the newly elected government of the Palestinian Authority," Gillerman warned.

The Palestinian U.N. observer, Riyad Mansour, condemned Monday's suicide bombing and the loss of innocent civilians on both sides, but attacked Israel for trying to portray its latest military escalation which killed 21 Palestinians from April 7-9 as a response to violence from the Palestinian territories.

"Israel, the occupying power has been relentless in its grave breaches of international law, including the willful killing and injury of civilians and the practice of extrajudicial executions," he said. "What the Israeli government is doing and what it has been doing throughout its nearly 39-year-old military occupation is clearly intended to serve its clear political objectives of inflicting maximum pain, suffering and loss on the Palestinian people while it entrenches its occupation."

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Questions: why do people like watching other people die SO MUCH that they are happy to risk death in order to ensure that a significant number of murders are televised?

What can be done to avoid the cascade of blood that Bush is currently pouring down above all of us? Or are our heads--and those of our children, and our children's children--already drenched?

Can anything be done?