...Amurka NEEDS a full-time boogey-man!

Turns out the vote!

Even in their own ode to war, these morons pay a little tribute to the real world effects of their idiocy:

Military action would incur significant risks, including the possibility of U.S. and allied losses, wide-scale terrorist reprisals against Israel and other nations, and heightened unrest in the region.

Even though they realize that unilateral action such as this will destabilize the area and increase the risk of attacks in the US, these bozos go ahead with their chest-thumping.

Absolutely disgusting.

Military action would incur significant risks, including the possibility of U.S. and allied losses, wide-scale terrorist reprisals against Israel and other nations, and heightened unrest in the region.

Hmm, no mention of the possibility of disruption to world oil supplies. If these village idiots can't at least mention the possibility, no one should take them seriously. In fact, they should be disregarded as the fools that they are.

Or just more completely out of touch with reality than John McCain?

Have they learned nothing from the failed policies of the last five years?

Never mind. Rhetorical questions to which they have already supplied answers.

I am sick and tired of our foreign policy driven by the fears of cowards and the interests of foreign nationals. AIPAC has got to go. Neo-conservatives have got to go. War-mongering and fear has got to go.

I hope that Sen. Obama gets elected, opens some channels of communication and engages the Iranian leadership in constructive talks. The Iranians have every right to develop peaceful, civilian applications of nuclear power.

I would

I should

I can

I am

I want

I need

I dream

I demand

B-b-b-b-bomb Iran

two just need to go fu@k one another. Far more satisfying and no one else has to get involved.

Why is this a Serious Bipartisan position? Why is the threat of war by high level government insiders on another country that poses no threat to us given such a platform? And why do people take it seriously? Why does this country love war so god damn much?

Does the beltway establishment learn anything? Why are they so incompetent? Why do people who fail repeatedly get to rise to the top but we can't have a meritocracy because then we would have to give women equal pay for equal work?

Why is the military industrial complex so ingrained into this country that we don't even think of the money we spend on it but millions go hungry or without health insurance and suddenly we have to practice fiscal responsibility? Aren't these people calling themselves Christian? Haven't they ever read the Bible? History books? Anything besides military war plans?

Why is it perfectly reasonable to have huge mercenary armies inside our borders (blackwater, in my own state of North Carolina)? Why do so many public officials fall for this crap? Who do they think it is benefiting? Why do these endless war types rise to the top but a principled refusal to sacrifice the lives of our soldiers and our treasure except as a last resort is treated as soft? Why do we have a Department of Homeland Security?

I understand how Washington works, for the most part. I understand that those with influence are working behind the scenes, as you have illustrated. I just don't understand why it works so god damn well. I feel naive, and your posts generally depress me Glenn, but in both cases I am glad for those feelings. I just don't understand why this country operates the way it does.

Is anyone responsible in charge of this fucking country or are we just content to let Rome burn? Where is the motherfucking outrage?

I hope (there's that word again) a President Obama will have more sense than to follow a policy as insane as this.

This is notwithstanding the essential campaign rhetoric that we must be ready to attack anyone, anywhere, at anytime, which is required in order to be considered a serious candidate or to get elected in this war happy nation we inhabit.

Check it out:

http://www.addictedtowar.com/book.html

This is nothing new. It's been going on forever, it seems like.

This "study" must not be seen as some aberration. This is the essence of what those who rule the US want, believe, and organize for daily. It is genuinely "bipartisan", which in fact means One Party, Two Factions. Those who cling to the fantasy that somehow backing the Democrats will make any difference beyond the cosmetic as far any real policy is concerned are deluded or in denial.

Increasingly I believe that the only hope for anything resembling a humane future for the people of the world is the complete collapse and ruin of the US empire, and the only useful activity is that which hastens its destruction.

If Obama IS elected, and the steps outlined here are not taken by the time he takes office, he will be under enormous pressure to prove his "pro-American" bona fides by taking swift action against Iran. As Eugene Jarecki lays out in his documentary, Why We Fight, what we used to call the "military-industrial establishment," that whirlwind juggernaut, has historically put enormous pressure on each new incumbent, Republican or Democrat, to follow the hawkish consensus that furthers their corporate and ideological interests.

The only hope is for grass-roots progressives and their allies in Congress to raise a stink this time, and insist that common sense prevail. With the economy on the ropes and the government effectively bankrupt, this might resonate with ordinary Americans, who've grown tired of these expensive, fruitless wars.

This opposition might be enough to give Obama cover if he decides to buck the foreign policy establishment and resist the call to use military force against Iran. Or he might find it a whole lot easier in the short run just to go along, in order to be accepted by the All-Wise Seers, the David Broders in the media, the folks at the AEI, Hudson Institute, AIPAC, and the National Review, not to mention the enormously powerful war profiteers: Halliburton, KBR, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and all the rest.