[Peace-discuss] [Peace] War with Iran

[C. G. Estabrook]

"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. 
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. 
Uh, depending on the breaks.”

—Gen. Buck Turgidson


> On Jan 26, 2020, at 7:11 PM, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Except fallout.  Ain't there nuclear fallout???  😱😱
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> On Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 7:00 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> <https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/aftermath-the-iran-war-after-the-soleimani-assassination/>
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> "...Iran will try its best to avoid all-out war. The U.S. will not.
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> "This is the war that, as the NYT reports, 'Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for.'
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> "It will start, upon some pretext, with a full-scale U.S. air attack on Iran, followed by Iranian and allied attacks on U.S. forces and allies in the region, including Israel, and then an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran—which they think will end it. It is an incomprehensible disaster. And it’s becoming almost impossible to avoid.
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> "The best prospect for stopping it would be for Iran and Russia to enter into a mutual defense treaty right now. But that’s not going to happen. Neither Russia nor China is going to fight for Iran. Why would they? They will sit back and watch the war destroy Iran, Israel, and the United States.”
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