Letters to the Editor
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Kyl-Lieberman passed 76-22. Thanks, Democrats!
Kyl-Lieberman was a de facto declaration of war on Iran. Half the Democrats in the Senate, OVER half of them, voted for it. Is this a bad acid trip? Am I dreaming that the US has gone insane? No, I seem to be sober and awake.
I guess I ought to be satisfied that I'm alive while history is being made. Someday historians will marvel at the misdeeds of Bush43 and the useless, spineless Congressional slugs who have given him the green light to drag the world into a global war.
"Why, yes, I think it could be very easily done!"
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War With Iran: The Real War
I told my partner a few days ago that we would launch a preemptive strike against Iran before Shrub & Vader left office.
Here's my very unscientific take: Iran has been the goal all along; Iraq was just a layover.
Shrub and Vader really didn't intend to screw up Iraq as badly as it has been, but that works to their advantage in a strike on Iran.
First, the oil ministry in Iraq and any decision about how to divvy up oil revenues has gone down the tubes. That leaves the United States (remember Cheney is a former Halliburton exec. and held those secret energy meetings way back when) under the direction of a few "private contractors" probably affiliated with Halliburton to go into Iraq and quietly take control of the oil.
Second, as you recall, Shrub has now set us up to be in Iraq for the next 10 years with his speech last week and the Petraeus hearings on Capitol Hill. Iraq is in chaos; nobody knows who runs what. Our troops are already there and it's just a small "redeployment" to get them across the border and into Iran.
Third, who cares about Iraq? The prime minister is a U.S. non-functioning puppet, with a parliament that is equally non-functional. Once we launch airstrikes in Iran, the "terrorists" will move back into Iran and U.S. troops will follow them there.
Fourth, the +30,000, -30,000 troops to leave us where we started (at 100,000) -- a former colleague calls this play the "sleeve out of the brassiere" (sorry, but I couldn't resist using it) was a shell game to begin with! Those 100,000 troops (-5,000 - 10,000 that will no doubt remain in Iraq) will have no choice but to go into Iran once airstrikes are launched. See #3 above.
Fifth, U.S. troop deployment times have been extended and extended by authorization of Shrub's war powers provision as a means to get them accustomed to climate, terrain in that region. A move into Iran won't cost as much, then, because our troops will already be conditioned.
Finally, we aren't dealing with a rational man here (and I'm not talking about Ahmadinejad). Shrub is out of control and Vader is running the show. Shrub is just your average example of a raging unrecovered alcoholic who couldn't run a lawnmower without help. He did, however, sell his soul to Cheney et al in exchange for the title of "decider" and now all of us are paying the price.
The seriousness of this is that we are not in Iraq for terrorists; we're in it for oil and the territory that goes with it. Nor are we there to fight religious extremism -- unless you believe predictions in the Book of Revelation about the Devil bringing on Armageddon as a test for humanity. In that case, I'll leave it to you to figure out who is the devil...
I'm not a left-wing nut job, nor do I think that the growing chorus of voices across America are who have laid out much the same argument.
So, the media in whatever form really needs to step up to the plate now and stop enabling Shrub and Cheney. If we don't, it won't be a matter of an itsy-bitsy war in Iraq; it will be a world war and our country and its citizens will suffer the consequences once again, only on a far greater scale.
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Thank you Anonymous
That was the best post by an anonymous in a long time. I'm going to take a guess and say you prefer anonymous because your daily work is related to your topic and you have a reason to maintain some cover.
I believe we will be at war with Iran before Christmas. I believe it will start slow, with a few air strikes, some cruise missiles and possible small team recon units going onto Iranian soil as pathfinders, scouts and target observation and marking.
Iranian civilians are going to get killed as collateral damage. The pictures of dead children, women, and elderly people are going to play on Al Jezzera TV all over the Middle East. Iran will retaliate against the United States and Israel.
The three carrier groups "in theater" will sustain some hits from Russian Shkval torpedos and Chinese silkworm missiles. If there indeed are any "sleeper cells" of terrorists here in America as Chertoff keeps trying to scare us with, they will swing into action and take out whatever targets they have pre-determined and planned for. It may even be dirty bomb time.
This will give Bush and Cheney the green light for a full scale attack from the air, and possibly ground troops.
This will be the beginning of what Dick Cheney and his buddies have envisioned since the end of the first Gulf War. They thrive and make money on chaos.
Of course, our media in this country will show flag banners and streaming chyron crawls with patriotic slogans and whip America into an Iran-hating frenzy.
Draft boards across the country, dormant now, but ready, will go live. Congress will OK all the money Bush wants to take this war to its bitter conclusion: The complete destruction of the Islamic fundamentalist movement in the Middle East and the total domination of the region so that we can make them all into client states of the U.S. and, yes, take their goddamned oil and make them kneel.
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To all you conspiracy theorists:
Yeah, Carl Rove did it. Right. And black helicopters are everywhere.
According to the Washington Post, not exactly a bastion of conservative philosophy, the memos were sent to Rather by a man named Bill Burkett.
Quoting the Post:
“The man CBS News touted as the ‘unimpeachable source" of explosive documents about President Bush's National Guard service turns out to be a former Guard officer with a history of self-described mental problems who has denounced Bush as a liar with "demonic personality shortcomings."
And this:
“For 10 days, CBS declined to name Burkett as the person who provided the disputed Guard documents, saying only that they came from an "unimpeachable source."
Finally, CBS realized that their "unimpeachable source" was a complete whackadoo. So they gave Burkett up and went running for the hills.
So tell me, conspiracy fans, how in the world did Carl Rove manage to get those false documents into Burkett’s hands?
Oh, I forgot – Rove evil. Can do anything. Black helicpters everywhere.