I guess the blow back goes way back.  Some of us forget (or are never taught that part of history), others do not.

Since we are celebrating Memorial Day today, I certainly hope these peace negotiations will be successful.

http://www.history.com/minisites/memorial/

From the May issue of The American Conservative

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_05_05/cover.html
"...Third, we must face the fact that a real Iraqi state is likely to be close to Iran. The solution is not to bomb Iran but to settle our differences—what diplomats call a rapprochement. Tehran has offered us a general settlement on quite generous terms. We should take them up on it. If the U.S. and Iran are no longer enemies, the fact that a new Iraqi state is allied with Iran is not a problem.

It goes without saying that none of this will happen in the remainder of George W. Bush’s term. More likely is an attack on Iran, intended to foreclose on these options...."

Klondike, that's what I was going to say. since We know Bush wants war with them, something fishy is going on, i'll bet on that. Any excuse right now will do the job.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080712/wl_nm/iran_nuclear_dc


Official says Iran would destroy Israel if attacked
 


TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran would destroy Israel and 32 U.S. military bases in the Middle East if the Islamic Republic was attacked over its disputed nuclear program, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Saturday.

 
The Islamic Republic and Israel have been embroiled in an escalating war of words in recent weeks, increasing speculation of military confrontation and helping to send global oil prices to record highs.

Iranian missile tests this week further stoked tension and rattled financial markets.

"The U.S. knows full well that with the smallest move against Iran, Israel and 32 U.S. military bases in the region would not be out of the reach of our missiles and would be destroyed," the semi-official Fars News Agency quoted Mojtaba Zolnour as saying in a speech

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php/index.php?context=va&aid=8839

Consider the Consequences

Never in history has it happened that nuclear power plants and nuclear enrichment facilities have been deliberately bombed.  Such facilities, everywhere in the world, operate under severe safety conditions because the release of radioactive materials is deadly, immediately and also long after exposure.  If the USA or Israel deliberately bomb a fully fueled nuclear power plant or nuclear fuel enrichment facilities, containment will be breached; radioactive elements will be released into the environment.  There will be horrific deaths for families in the surrounding vicinity.  The Union of Concerned Scientists has estimated 3 million deaths would result in 3 weeks from bombing the nuclear enrichment facilities near Esfahan, and the contamination would cover Afghanistan, Pakistan, all the way to India.

Reactors and enrichment facilities are built of extra strong concrete, often with multiple layers of containment domes, often built underground.  Bombing such facilities will require powerful explosives, earth penetrator war heads, maybe nuclear warheads.  The explosions will blow the contamination high into the atmosphere.  Where will it go is a question that is difficult to predict.

During the January 1991 Gulf War, many oil wells in Kuwait were set afire. According to the US State Department, “black rains were reported in Turkey, and black snow fell in the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains”.  The radioactive plumes from bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities would reach the same destinations, in the same weather conditions.  But the radioactive plume might go north, into Europe.  During the March 2003 invasion of Iraq by the USA, UK, Australia, and others, armour piercing shells and bombs tipped with depleted uranium (U238) were used.  It took 9 days for uranium particles from these weapons in Iraq to reach England, where air sample filters showed a 300% increase in uranium particles attributable to the war.  The weather patterns at the time that carried the particles to England passed over central Turkey, the Ukraine, Austria, Poland, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark, to England, then over Norway and Finland to the Arctic.  This was reported by The Times, summarizing a study in European Biology and Bioelectromagnetics.

The nuclear fallout from bombing Iran will have a half life of 700 million years.  That is a duration difficult to comprehend.  Jesus Christ was preaching a mere 2 thousand years ago.  In the evolution of humans, our earliest ape-like ancestors were walking upright a mere 5 million years ago.  The Bush administration and its Israeli advisors are now planning to contaminate the planet for 700 million years.  From the rhetoric of Presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton, they, too, think that is a good idea.  The US media seem to applaud.

Either Americans do not understand what it is they are preparing to do, or they think themselves immune to the consequences.  The planet is not large.  What goes around, comes around.  Smoke from the Gulf War oil fires went around the world and was detected in South America.  Radioactive fallout from bombing a nuclear reactor will also go far, especially considering that it has millions of years to make the trip.

 The Persian Gulf nations of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran have more than half the world’s known oil reserves.  The 1981 study by Fetter and Tsipis in Scientific American on “Catastrophic Releases of Radioactivity” estimated that bombing a nuclear reactor would cause 8600 square miles around the reactor to be uninhabitable, depending on which way the wind blows.  Bombing the Bushehr reactor will mean half of the world’s oil is instantly inaccessible.  Bombing Iran means that Americans will not be driving cars any where, any more, for a long, long time.  The American Way of Life will be finished.  An economic collapse unimagined by Americans will follow.  Mechanized farming and food transport will be finished.  Famine is a possibility.  Food riots are a certainty, in the land of plenty, with the fuel gauge on empty.

The nations of the world cannot rely on the USA and its Israeli advisors to be rational about bombing reactors.  It is insane to say, “All options are on the table”, and it is a crime against humanity.  The USA and Israel are preparing the public to accept such insanity by announcing that they successfully bombed a Syrian nuclear reactor, with no ill effects.  Israel has also recently released video of its 1981 bombing of the Osiraq nuclear reactor in Iraq.  See, it’s easy.  Nothing bad happens.  But those were both construction sites, not loaded reactors full of tons of enriched uranium.

Peoples and governments in the Persian Gulf, in the Middle East, in Europe, and down wind in India and China need to take effective actions now to stop this insanity.  Once radiation is released, UN resolutions cannot put it back in containment.