Americans should stop their Bush at once

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   We all... the entire world has seen the devastations of the war... 
We
have witnessed the miseries and pains of the warfare... Can't we just
stop it to happen again?

Please Bush don't do it again... if you are a child of a mother, father
of a kid... moreover, if you are a human being... The world is squeezed
off for feeding you with human blood and flesh........

Please see today's News Paper... Chennai, India

CHENNAI

THE HINDU �
TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2008

Bush's nod for more covert action in Iran

Plan includes
assassinations under way since last year

� Bi-partisan support for $400m secret war

� Resistance from Generals for an all-out attack

Julian Borger

The Bush administration has
significantly increased covert military operations inside Iran aimed at destabilising the country's
government, according to a U.S.
report.

The report, in the New Yorker
magazine, on Sunday quotes military, intelligence and congressional sources
as saying CIA and special forces operations were ordered by U.S. President
George Bush in a "presidential finding" in the past few months.

It said Mr. Bush sought � and
Congressional leaders from both parties approved � $400m for the secret war,

which includes abductions and
assassinations.

According to the report's
author, Seymour Hersh, the operations inside Iran have been under way since last
year but have recently been "significantly expanded." However, Mr.
Hersh, who broke several stories on the intelligence fiasco before the Iraq war, reported there was considerable
resistance from U.S.
Generals and Defence Secretary Robert Gates to White House pressure for an
all-out attack.

The operations described by Mr.
Hersh involve support for Baluchi and Arab separa�tist groups in Iran,
"seizing members of Al-Quds, the commando arm of the Ira�nian
Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit
of 'high-value targets' in the President's war on terror, who may be captured
or killed."

There have been reports from Iran of assassinations of military officers,
which Teh�ran has sometimes blamed on U.S.
and British operations. Both the U.S.
and Britain in�sist they are
focused on diplo�matic means to convince Tehran
to suspend uranium enrichment                     and reprocessing.

Earlier this month, an in�ternational
delegation to Tehran
delivered a package of economic and diplomatic in�centives for the government
to comply with U.N. Security Council demands. On Sun�day, Iran's Foreign
Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the package was being studied "carefully
and strongly."

A front

Iran insists its nuclear pro�gramme is purely peaceful, while
western governments believe it is being used as a front for developing weapons,
despite a U.S. intelligence
es�timate   published late last year
concluding Iran
had closed down its weapons pro�gramme in 2003. The E.U. has intensified its
travel and fi�nancial sanctions on Iran, while the Bush administra�tion
has said it will press for more punitive measures in the Security Council.

There has been persistent
speculation that the White House is considering air strikes against Iranian
nucle�ar facilities before Mr. Bush leaves office next January. Over the last
weekend, the commander of Iran's
Revolu�tionary Guards, Major Gener�al Mohammad Ali Jafari, told a Tehran newspaper Iran
would retaliate against any U.S.
or Israeli attack on its nuclear installations by tar�geting the global oil
supply. � � Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2008