"I think he is going to do it," John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a military issues think tank, told AFP.
"They are going to bomb WMD facilities next summer," he added, referring to nuclear facilities Iran says are for peaceful uses and Washington insists are really intended to make nuclear bombs, or weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
"It would be a limited military action to destroy their WMD capabilities" added the analyst, believing a US military invasion of Iran is not on the table.
US journalist Seymour Hersh also said at the weekend that White House hawks led by Vice President Dick Cheney were intent on attacking Iran with or without the approval of the US Congress, both houses of which switch from Republican to Democratic control in January after the November 7 legislative elections.
Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress, a Democrat-friendly think tank, also believes the US government could decide to attack Iran.
"It is not realistic but it does not mean we won't do it," he told AFP in an interview. "It is less likely after the elections but it is still very possible."
"If you look at what the administration is doing, it seems that it is going to inevitably lead us to a military conflict," he said, adding that no alternative solution was being sought, including discussions with Iran on Iraq, which could lead to talks on Iran's nuclear program and role in the region.
"Senior members of the (Bush) administration remain seized with the idea that the regime in Iran must be removed," Cirincione said.
Where are our checks and balances? Isn't the whole point of our type of government that it will curtail the actions of any leader who is not acting in the best interests of this country?
We all just stand here while this lunatic drags us toward Armageddon, and nobody lifts a finger to stop him. We may very well be watching the beginning of the end of our nation.
Zionism is bankrupt, ethically and ideologically. The world has enough of the atrocities against civilians, the apartheid politics and superiority complex it could hide before the internet was a fact. There fore Zionisms way out is suicide. Only when Iran has half destroyed Nazionist USrael can it plead for pity and support again. The attack on Iran will happen when the hysterical leaders see their end has come, and that is now very soon.
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