Dusting off the nukes

and, if you're paying any attention at all, you know that the proponents of unending war, violence, and death, have been calling for escalation in the form of the u.s. attacking iran and syria...

(from robert parry at consortium news...)

The Israel-Lebanon conflict has opened up a possible route for George W. Bush and his neoconservative strategists to achieve a prized goal that otherwise appeared to be blocked for them – military assaults on Syria and Iran aimed at crippling those governments.

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Hezbollah’s firing of rockets as far as the port city of Haifa, deep inside Israel, has touched off new fears among Israelis and their allies about the danger of more powerful missiles carrying unconventional warheads, possibly hitting heavily populated areas, such as Tel Aviv.

That fear of missile attacks by Islamic extremists dedicated to Israel’s destruction has caused Israel to start “dusting off it [sic] nukes,” one source told me.

the middle east is a powder keg, no doubt about it, but the very last thing we need to do is turn these neocon wet dreams into reality...

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