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Obama is a bigger war monger/criminal that Bush could have ever dreamed of being.  I just wish the majority of the anti-war activists were actually anti-war.  Obama is proof that they were only anti-Republican. 

UN inspectors are back from Iran after a two-day visit. They wanted to inspect several sites where Iran is likely to be doing the scientific and engineering work that provides the specific knowledge of how to construct a nuclear bomb without actually building it. Iran refused them access to these sites.

One official said that the UN team “could not find a way forward”. Another said “”We engaged in a constructive spirit, but no agreement was reached.”

Two days ago General Martin Dempsey said that attacking Iran was “premature” and that sanctions should be given time. He did not, however, say that such an attack was inadvisable due to its consequences. He did not speak against using the “military option”. He could not do so without going against Obama’s stated policy that the U.S. will attack Iran if Iran tries to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

Dempsey said that he had made clear to the Israelis that “a strike at this time would be destabilizing and wouldn’t achieve their long-term objectives.” This is a weak and ineffectual warning. This is not a warning not to strike at any time, only at this time. In fact, Dempsey allowed as how the Israelis have “unique” national interests and “consider Iran to be an existential threat”, which weakened his warning even more.

Obama needs to do more to if he wants to stop Israel, such as by preventing Israel’s airplanes from flying over Iraq or Saudi Arabia. We have no indication that he is doing much of anything concrete to stop an Israeli attack. Obama is intentionally sending weak messages to Israel and intentionally sitting on his hands, so far as we know.

Obama is leading America into war with Iran. Israel has the U.S. right where it wants it. This is, however, where Obama wants to be. So it seems. Let us hope it is not so.

There are no good reasons for such a war. Iran is no threat to the U.S. There are no significant gains to Americans from such a war. The only gains, and they are far from assured, is that the U.S. regains political control over Iran. But even that is worth very little to the American public. Iran will sell its oil into the world market no matter what form of government it has.

An Israeli attack on Iran is a tripwire that will being the U.S. into war with Iran. Obama can stop Israel from attacking Iran. So far he hasn’t. Obama is acting “passively” with respect to Israel so that, if and when Israel attacks, he can be seen as having been forced to react against Iran if and when it retaliates against Israel. Obama has already orchestrated such a “forced” response by the U.S. by proclaiming a “red line”that, if crossed by Iran, will result in U.S. retaliation.

Iran can let Hezbollah loose on Israel with rocket attacks. It can take military action in the Persian Gulf. Obama regards the latter as a “red line” that prompts U.S. attack. He could regard the former or any number of other Iranian responses also as triggers for attacking Iran.

Iran has already made clear that it regards an attack by Israel as an attack by the U.S. It will retaliate against Israel if Israel attacks it. It may retaliate against U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf. In all probability, an Israeli attack will therefore end up with the U.S. attacking Iran.