We definitely don't want to get into another situation like after 9/11 when some people did everything they could to connect Iraq to 9/11 so they could invade. Not sure if there are people right now who are hellbent to go to war Iran. I hope not.

> Not sure if there are people right now who are hellbent to go to war Iran. I hope not.

Their name is John Bolton and they're the National Security Advisor of the USA.

They really need to stop letting that guy anywhere near the whitehouse.

That man is pure calculated evil. There is not a single US foreign adversary he would not like to blow up.

> Not sure if there are people right now who are hellbent to go to war Iran. I hope not.

I have bad news for you. The same people are pushing for war then are pushing for war now because that's how they make their living.

>I have bad news for you. The same people are pushing for war then are pushing for war now because that's how they make their living.

Those same people spent the later part of the Obama years drooling over the idea that relations with Iran would thaw enough that they'd be able to make a killing selling to both sides of the Iran/Israel standoff.

> . Not sure if there are people right now who are hellbent to go to war Iran.

Erm, yes, there are. Saudis, Israelis and the MEK are hell bent for us to go to war with Iran. They've also publically greased John "neocon mustache boy" Bolton, who will hopefully be looking for a job soon.

They're the same people as last time, more or less.

> Not sure if there are people right now who are hellbent to go to war Iran. I hope not.

Iraq, then Iran, then North Korea. That's been the plan ever since 9/11.

IIRC, it was retired General Wesley Clark who stated[1] in an interview that someone he knew at the Pentagon told him about plans that had already been drawn up to attack 7 Middle Eastern countries:

> We're going to take out seven countries in five years.' And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran.

[1] https://www.salon.com/2007/10/12/wesley_clark/

It's an apparent plan from 2001:

> And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran." While Clark doesn't name the other four countries, he has mentioned in televised interviews that the hit list included Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan

Iraq, 2003.

Libya happened in Obama time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...

Syrian war also started in 2011.

The national security advisor and the Secretary of State.

Pompeo seems pretty sane to me. Bolton is another question. very true.

Pompeo believes in dispensational premillennialism. Which is to say that he thinks the world will end in literal Armageddon when the Antichrist comes to earth and the forces of Heaven and Hell do battle on the plains of Megiddo in Israel. Of course, Pompeo will have been swept up in the Rapture, so he'll be a-ok.

And yes, it sounds utterly insane to me too.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/26/americas-islamophobia-i...

For more background on dispensational premillennialism, check out https://crooked.com/podcast/karma-magnificent-btch-w-diana-b...

> Pompeo seems pretty sane to me.

So did Colin Powell.

My impression was that Powell let himself being bullied into it. Which is not good either.

IIRC the Japanese tanker owner misidentified what side of the ship was damaged, so I wouldn't place too much weight on his words.