The Bush Administration has a typical tactic, which has been documented many times.
They construct two possible scenarios, and only two.
One scenario requires that you believe that evil must triumph, and that you consciously want it to win.
The other is their planned course of action.
In the case for invading Iraq, it was "Launch an invasion" or "A mushroom cloud over Cleveland".
Now it is, "Go to war with Iran", or "You deny that the Holocaust ever happened (and, by the way, you still want a mushroom cloud over Cleveland").
How about this.
The President of Iran, a fundamentalist Muslim, has taken some very unpopular, and in my mind, deragotory positions regarding Israel and the United States.
The President of the United States, a fundamentalist Christian, has taken a position that sets the United States on a course for war with Iran, with his declaration that he "will take care of Iran" before he leaves office.
Both these individuals are scaring their respective populations to distract the people from noticing both how incompetent and bellicose they are.
Additionally, hard-line conservatives in both countries are beating the drums for war, for various reasons.
My conclusion.
George W. Bush is SO INCOMPETENT, that he must not be permitted to make another war-starting decision, ever.
President Bush, along with his "Thinkers" at the American Enterprise Institute, have demonstrated that they take absolutely no interest in preparing for the aftermath of the initial war-making action, preferring to pretend that everything will work out just as their rosy scenario imagines.
When real life intrudes, these same individuals are SHOCKED, SHOCKED that the fantasy they constructed did not happen. They declare "mistakes were made", as though the mistakes appeared through some sort of dimensional rift, then go on to compound those msitakes with PR campaigns that do nothing but smear those who did warn them.
I want George W. Bush to do absolutely NOTHING about Iran. Now or as he runs out the clock to January 2009. I wish such a prohibition cold be codified into law, but the Democrats in Congress are too feckless and the Republicans to blindly loyal for that to happen. So all I can do is continue to point out that I do not really care whether the President of Iran speaks at Columbia or not. Or whether he lays a wreath at Ground Zero or not (although it would be a nice gesture on the part of the president of a country that had nothing to do with the attacks).
I just want to run out the clock to get Bush out of office before he bequests America with a third failed war, to add to his current two.
Is that plain enough?
Last edited by Philadelphia Steve; 09/25/07 12:30 AM.
