Pravda Predicts: The United States will attack Iran in 2006

Reasons given:

• The master plan of the United States is to control the oil in the Middle East.
  

• Iraq war becoming a political disaster for Republicans. Republicans face losing control of Congress, but with President Bush'’s approval ratings in the toilet, Republicans may well lose the White House too. The lesson of the staged 9/11 and the ensuing war in Iraq is clear: Americans will rally around the president and his party during distressing times. What could be more opportune for this president and his party than another staged 9/11-like event, followed by another war of retaliation, this time against Iran ? (Later author states, "I don'’t believe another fake 9/11 is actually necessary" and "Another fake 9/11 attack is not necessary, though it may occur anyway in order to further the totalitarian ambitions of the government.

• Can't leave Iraq, it would be an admission of defeat. Too much invested in Iraq to build permanent military bases there and therefore will not leave for at least a few decades, but yet maintaining status quo in Iraq is untenable as the voices calling for withdrawal intensify each passing day. That leaves one course of action for the Bush administration: escalation.

• Another good reason for a war against Iran is to divert attention from the economy. It'’s obvious now that the U.S. housing bubble is deflating.
  

The article then speculates the U. S. will do airstrikes, eventually followed by some tactical nuke bunker-buster bombs. The world will be angry, but the U. S. will successfully "spin" this for a couple of months, and then..... without warning .... "the U.S. will drop a couple of nuclear bombs on a couple of medium sized cities in Iran, just like it did in Japan sixty years ago. The justifications will be the same as before: to bring a speedy end to the war. Of course, the world will be outraged, but its reaction will be muted because the U.S. will have already broken the nuclear taboo when it used the "“bunker busters",” and besides, what can the world really do about it? Iran will surrender, and the U.S. will be fully in control of the Middle East and two of its most important sources of oil: Iraq and Iran .

The U.S. can then withdraw its soldiers in Iraq into its new massive, city-sized military bases and wait out the civil war, while keeping a close eye on the oil. The U.S. will be a pariah nation, but so what. It will control the bulk of the world'’s oil."

And that my dear readers, pretty much describes, I think, the left and the color of their world.