World War III About to Start?
Iran's nuclear chief said Wednesday that Iran has enriched uranium up to 4.8 percent - the upper end of the range needed to make fuel for reactors - as it continues to defy U.S. and European demands to stop enrichment. Enriched to more than 90 percent, it becomes suitable for use in nuclear weapons, according to the Associated Press.
Iran's first target would be Israel in any response to a U.S. attack, a Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday, reinforcing the Iranian president's past call for Israel to be "wiped off the map," also according to the AP.
A few days ago, a Reuters story floated a Bush administration trial balloon threatening to use nuclear weapons against Iran to stop them from developing a nuclear capability.
This is insane and an indication that crazed religious fanatics have siezed power on both sides of the world and are on the verge of a massive miscalculation that a nuclear war is somehow winnable.
In the absence of ANY corporate news organization in America connecting the dots and standing up to this idiocy, the public must turn to the Internet to find out what can be done to stop this madness.
A coalition of activist groups is now circulating a petition drive to tell Congress to send a clear message to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney NOT to attack Iran and continue this escalation to World War III.
"Such an attack would be illegal and disastrous," according to David Swanson of Democrats.Com. "Congress can prevent it, but only if Congress asserts its Constitutional right to decide whether or not the United States goes to war."
Congressman Peter DeFazio's H. Con. Res. 391 expresses "the sense of Congress that the President should not initiate military action against Iran with respect to its nuclear program without first obtaining authorization from Congress."
This bill is rapidly picking up cosponsors, he says, but needs more.
Democrats.Com is asking the public to contact their Representatives and Senators to help stop the madness.
And they are urging people to contact the news media to cover this story critically in a way they did not in the run-up to war in Iraq.