Lyndon LaRouche, Democratic Party leader and head of the LaRouche PAC, has issued a stark warning about the danger of Dick Cheney's drive to start a war with Iran, this August 2007. Executive Intelligence Review, the weekly international news and strategic analysis magazine that LaRouche founded in 1974, features LaRouche's warning, delivered on July 19 at a closed-door discussion with Washington diplomats, in the July 27, 2007 issue. In a unique feature section entitled, "Beware the Guns of August," LaRouche is quoted from his opening remarks to that closed-door meeting: "This is not yet August, but as I think back to Augusts in the past, I think of August 1914, August 1939," LaRouche said, adding that there now exists a virtual state of war between Russia and Great Britain. On Cheney's drive for war with Iran, LaRouche said, "It wouldn't be war in the simple sense of World War I and World War II, but something comparable. It's very dangerous. Anything can happen. And governments are on vacation." To avert this war, LaRouche said, get Cheney out of office. "We've come to a very dangerous period, but dangerous periods are times when people who recognize the danger will do things they wouldn't otherwise do. This is a deadly threat; its also an opportunity. The point is very simple. My view is that we have to somehow get rid of Cheney And the time for those changes is now. The potential is now."

Filling out the picture of the strategic danger, this issue of EIR also includes "The Guns of August 2007: Cheney's Finger is Already on the Trigger," by Jeffrey Steinberg; "Something is Rotten in the U.K.: Great Britain Escalates Crisis with Russia," by Helga Zepp-LaRouche; and "The Geostrategic Importance of the Coming Bay of Bengal Naval Exercise," by Ramtanu Maitra.