So when will they start talking about a "mushroom cloud" threat from Iran?

[quinnox]

So apparently we have to start getting our war thirst on for Iran now. How long until the "potential nuclear threat" card is unveiled and we will supposed to be scared to death and ready and willing to invade them to prevent our country from being blown up?

This is such crap and I don't care if it is Obama and the Democrats who push it, I will not support any more wars, period. I can't imagine how even the most devoted Obama supporter could support something like this without hypocrisy bells going off with a thunderous roar.

[Romulox]

1. "Evil doers!!!!"

:wow:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. We should send a Paladin after them.

[leftstreet]

2. Occupy Iran!

[obxhead]

4. 2002.

They've been beating that drum for a decade already. This just brings the story back to life.

[icnorth]

5. The War Wagon is scared shitless about budget cuts...

[woo me with science]

6. I fear that's exactly where we are headed.

A major war is the goal and trump card of the oligarchy.

Our economy is wrecked. We have little real industry apart from the military industrial complex. The population is growing more restless and desperate. I think we will see a steady, purposeful escalation of tensions with Iran and a drumbeat to come together as Americans against a ginned up threat.

And what better way for the private banking cartel to remain indispensable and protected from serious reform, than to ensure an even more urgent need for the loans they provide in order to fund a necessary war?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Did you miss the news?

The "Israel will do it or we'll do it" has been going on for years.

[WinkyDink]

23. Israel has a leetle more reason for this 'tude.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

24. Name the reason, pretty please. nt

[AverageJoe90]

8. The nuclear threat from Iran is indeed quite real, but..........

To engage in a war over there at this point would unfortunately cause us nothing but absolute trouble. Problem is, many of our top military brass don't give a shit about actually defending the country, they just want their personal fantasies played out.

We'll just have to wait and see. Chances are, if the Iranians do develop a bomb, it may actually be quite possible that they might actually go for Russia instead of the U.S. Shorter distances, not to mention the mullahs are getting desperate, and the Russians aren't really as friendly with the Iranians as the MSM is letting on.......

[KansDem]

9. They first have to say something about a "smoking gun"

...that becomes a "mushroom cloud."

I believe that's the sequence...

[dtexdem]

10. But those will be clouds of psilocybin mushrooms smuggled by Mexican drug cartels.

;-)

[frylock]

14. well played!

[RoccoR5955]

11. Any day now

Obama needs an excuse to start another war. This way, he can be a war president, and you NEVER get rid of a president in a time of war.

[Warpy]

12. The End Timers and Israel Firsters are probably already doing it

Let's just hope Obama is listening to saner voices.

Iran isn't a pushover like Iraq and Afghanistan. A war against them will destroy us.

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[spanone]

15. right when the super committee is considering military budget cuts....you betcha

[tabasco]

16. Yeah, we should just let them assassinate people and react after the fact.

Good point.

[JVS]

20. Wasn't it just a little over a week ago that people were claiming that assassinations were legit?

[Cali_Democrat]

17. You know another war is coming in the near future

It's just a matter of where.

[Poll_Blind]

18. One has to admit this naturally dovetails into a larger, more-persistent chorus of drumbeats which..

...have been going on a long damned time from all sorts of unsurprising corners of a very narrow patch of land in the Middle East.

PB

[CJvR]

19. They...

...have been talking about that for years. Fortunately the Iranian centrifuges caught a little bug that set them back for a while but they are still working on it.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

21. I saw on CNN that they are trying to recruit the Mexican Drug Cartel!

:scared:

[WinkyDink]

22. Exactly.