Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell quickly repudiated comments from one of the Defense Department’s undersecretaries today, insisting that attack Iran at any time is “always an option.”
The latest comments came in response to Undersecretary Flournoy’s claims earlier this morning that a military attack against Iran was “off the table in the near term” and that the Obama Administration was focusing on “engagement and pressure.”
The US has been threatening to attack Iran for years, but those threats have gotten increasingly direct since President Obama took office last year.
Meanwhile Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated his nation’s outrage at the Obama Administration’s threat to launch a nuclear first strike against Iran. Earlier this month, President Obama announced that the US would never launch a nuclear first strike against a non-nuclear power, but then quickly noted that Iran was explicitly excluded from this pledge.
Does anyone at all get it that for the US to threaten Iran this way is in itself a war crime? That this makes the US the definition of a rogue nation? That this is not just wrong, not just mistaken, but COMPLETELY INSANE?!! We live in a society that has long since jumped the shark into the realm of criminal insanity. And the fact that many other nations are jumping with us, doesn't make it the 'new sanity'.
Good cop, bad cop Hitler-style.
The style suggests Straussians and crypto-Neo-Cons, with advice from the Israeli Right Wing–you know, the ones who started flowing into the Democrat ranks after Perle abandoned ship.
They think Iran is Iraq (probably have never looked closely at a map) and that Iran's leadership were once US puppets.
No doubt a lot of the upper military bureaucracy is playing an election game as well, trying to make Obama look like a complete fool.
So far they have had a lot of help.
So Obama is either a complete fool, under duress of some sort, or a little of this and a little of that.
Well, at least Obama's VP is not Lieberman. He probably had Gore's presidential eulogy written in the early days of the campaign.
Biden?
What's he reading lately?
If it's Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Obama might fret a bit.
Ah Morrell, another Columbia graduate.
More pandering to our insane fanatical racist puppet masters in apartheid israel… surprise surprise.
Not only Iran, but attacking Syria, or anyone else, anywhere else in the world, at any time, for any contrived reason, is also an "option" that's "on the table", for that matter.
And that's because, you see, "we" are no longer a "nation" with "our" own "government"; rather, we're merely an entity that's had the misfortune to become the indispensible instrumentality of Jewish supremacist world rule.
USA is a leader of the word and must punish any one espacialy in motherfucker muslim world try to make peacefull nuclear energy or make thier nation independent no one can dare usa otherwise all option on the tabel always.
The U.S. "reserves" the right to attack any nation at any time. Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Somalia, Mungo-bungo, Micro-Indonesia, Macro-Indonesia, New Zealand, New Brunswick, New South Wales, New Haven Connecticut, Compton, Atlanta, Atlantis, Egypt, Gaza, Jordan, AND the 'Royal Realm of Myanmar' or formerly known as Burma. "Our" federal government is flaming barking mad!
Got that, Folks? It's "ALWAYS" an option. So says America's master, Netanyahu, no doubt after a blistering phone call to his underlings in the U.S. State Department.
Why would anyone trust the word of a nation that makes a rule, then makes exceptions? The list of exceptions can be enlarged at any time and for "secret " reasons that, as usual, we are told common mortals could not possibly understand.
Then day after day we learn that lies, private interests and horrors are hiding behind all that secrecy
It never fails to amaze me how the USA just goes around so casually issuing threats against other countries it doesn't like. So matter of factly. What other nation IN THE WHOLE WORLD does this? No one. Imagine Mexico just issuing a threat to attack another country. Imagine Spain just threatening to attack Morocco? Only America thinks this is acceptable behaviour. What would you do if someone threatened you? You'd call the police wouldn't you? Only America seems to consider this appropriate behaviour.
There is already a certain little terror promoting country in the mideast that acquired nuclear weapons without signing the NPT and without IAEA inspections.
It is not Iran.