Dennis Kucinich is dead right. The big build-up to war with Iran is nothing more than the big build-up to the war with Iraq - a conspiracy theory based on rumors from the likes of secret agent, 'Curve Ball.'

Unfortunately, Paul will not stop the killing because he does not have even "a microscopic chance of winning." We should hope that he does maximum damage to the Republican attempt to replicate the NSDAP circa 1932. And, we should hope he will continue to wreak havoc on them via a third party candidacy. But, hope what you like, his chances of winning are less than zero.

The frenzy for war with Iran is nearing fever pitch. Restraining Israel should really not be that difficult. Reminding her that she has a lot to lose should make them come to their senses. Right now, they are planning an assault, but they are apparently presuming that Iran will remain supine and inert. That is absurd. Crude oil prices will skyrocket wrecking the extremely feeble economic recovery, and Israel will be hit hard by Iranian missiles. Netnayahu should expect catastrophic damage to Tel Aviv, Haifa, Dimona and Herzilya for starters. An Israeli attack will instantaneously depose Assad in Syria and replace him with the Muslim Brotherhood and grant Hizbullah control of Lebanon. The Israeli attack on Iran will topple King Abdullah in Jordan, and he will be replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood. In other words, even the Netanyahu government is not stupid enough to attack Iran, so that is why they are demanding that the US under Obama take up their fight for them. Finally, there is not one shred of evidence that Iran is anywhere near a nuke. The American public can take only so much propaganda, then Lincoln's dictum will kick into operation -- and the warmongers will be turned out of office. In the run-up to the November election, it could be political suicide to attack Iran for any one who attempts it. BTW - if Obama does fall into this trap, the Republicans will turn coat in the twinkling of an eye to condemn him for it. Mitt Romney will turncoat from an unbridled supporter of Israel into an antiwar campaigner to rid Washington of its wrongheaded, counterproductive and ruinous foreign policy.

Chossudovsky is right. We are being subjected to a propaganda deluge - a buildup before the opening of hostilities between the US and Iran - ie. the Iran War. A war that will destroy what tattered remnants that are left of America's standing in the world. A war to reduce the US to a military encampment organized around the concept of the Homeland Security Nation - the expansion of our already grotesque national security apparatus where millions of moderately gifted Americans control Top Secret intelligence that controls all government policy. Perhaps, the mask will come off and we shall witness the stark naked power of the Military Dictatorship that the USA has definitely become. Bolivia, here I come.

You are dead right, gwynn - the Democratic Party is the only viable option. Let others wail on about Rocky Anderson, he is just a tiny, perhaps, infinitesimal cypher in the political scheme of things. The Justice Party will fall flat on its electoral face. The infiltration of the Democratic Party is the only truly revolutionary political act available. Those calling for yet another Republican president in hopes of radicalism provoking a social collapse and revolution are living in Cloud Cuckoo Land - and I have heard them utter their nonsense in every presidential election cycle since 1968. Nixon was supposed to be the triggering agent for revolution, the Reagan, then Bush in 2000. We have the results of history to refute that hoary old paradigm - right-wing leaders simply strengthen the reactionary institutions and shift the nation to the right in a process that has been ongoing over the past 44 years. Progressives are great theorists, but lousy politicians. Now is the time that they are compelled to act - and the only intelligent action is infiltrate the Democratic Party, it is not going to collapse of its own accord. Years of progressive political failure have left the Democratic Party to the corporate fascists like the DLC, but the DLC collapsed last year - and it closed it doors. Even Ralph Nader says that he will sit out this cycle, because the Republicans are so dangerously ignorant. We should all occupy the local Democratic precinct meetings - that is the act of ultimate revolution - not, attempting to install yet another right-wing military dictator or traipsing after a third party fantasy. Those experiments have been tried, and tried and tried - and they all failed. Einstein's dictum applies to politics just as much as to physics: “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” is supported by his second, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

@MarineLJ - Very good question. US policy in the Middle East is risible because it is unbalanced, disconnected, one-sided and unfair. It is mind-boggling that any nation with a rogue nuclear arsenal should place demands upon another nation sans even one confirmed nuke. This entire Israel-Iran contretemps is the nadir of US foreign policy. Congress should hang its collective head in shame for voting 407 to 6 to stop funding the Palestinians if they sought UN recognition. That one is like shooting one's self in the head. In fact, US policy vis a vis Israel-Palestine has become a game of Russian Roulette - self-destructive, counterproductive, self-damaging and potentially dangerous to the national security of the USA.

The Afghanis must not appreciate all the fine work done in their impoverished nation by NATO led by the USA. Why on earth they would ally themselves with Pakistan against the USA (the world's most powerful and richest nation) is beyond belief. They must be Anti-American - and it is a dead cert that they hate our freedoms. What they don't like about bombing, torture, interrogation, military occupation and constant police and military harassment is beyond me.

Myrick is a disgrace to the United States and so is her colleague from North Carolina, Renee Ellmers. These two Congresswomen are the most Islamophobic members of the US Congress - although that is a packed field with Peter King, Allen West and Michelle Bachmann in the running as well.

This development in Saudi Arabia brings home the warnings of General Petraeus, James Jones and Robert Gates about the US-Israel relationship. Prince Turki's warning means: "The price of oil is going up, and there will soon be another energy crisis - perhaps, just after the UNSC vote on Palestinian statehood sometime later this month."

Why don't you compare it to Ron Paul's positions. It is sad to see Antiwar.com devolve into a Ron Paul Tea Party.