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Ramping up to war....and reflection called for

When will politicians learn?......especially those, like the Americans, who can draw on the ill-fated experience of failed military adventures and wars.     Now, the Senate has re-affirmed stopping Iran acquiring a nuclear capability.   How?   An attack on the country? - with all that entails and the widespread fallout and political ramifications?

"The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a resolution that reaffirms US efforts to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and says containment of a nuclear-capable Iran is not an option.

By a vote of 90-1 early Saturday, the Senate backed the nonbinding measure that specifically states that it should not been interpreted as an authorization for the use of military force or a declaration of war.

Passage of the resolution comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pressed Washington to spell out what would provoke a US-led military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. The Senate acted in the final hours before Congress broke for its weekslong recess."


Meanwhile, some sober reflection a la as expressed in this piece on Information Clearing House may well be in order.

"It was so with Vietnam, where Mitt Romney "served" in France, Rush got by with a boil on his butt, W. had connections and Dick Cheney had better things to do. But they sent my peers to the slaughter

Skip forward to now: The drumbeat for attacking Iran is growing, and it's the same privileged class that is front and center to send the children of other folks to die (see, Afghanistan). Mitt Romney's five sons will, of course, continue to live their lives of unimaginable privilege.

These are the same folks who insist on more tax cuts for themselves while cutting Medicaid and ending Medicare and Social Security for the rest of us. The same warmongers who would cut food stamps, end unemployment benefits and double the tax burden on students while cutting taxes for the Kochs."


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