Democrats Swallowing The Bush Line Hook & Sinker-Next Target: Iran [View All]

[kpete]

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again:
there is madness at work here.

Next Target: Iran; Democratic Senators haven’t Learned a thing
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2007-07-16 13:31. Iran
By Chris Floyd, ATLANTIC FREE PRESS

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The bipartisan Senate resolution — the brainchild (or rather the bilechild) of Fightin’ Joe Lieberman — affirmed as official fact all of the specious, unproven, ever-changing allegations of direct Iranian involvement in attacks on the American forces now occupying Iraq. The Senators appear to have relied heavily on the recent New York Times story by Michael Gordon that stovepiped unchallenged Pentagon spin directly onto the paper’s front page. As Firedoglake points out, John McCain cited the heavily criticized story on the Senate floor as he cast his vote.

It goes without saying that all of this is a nightmarish replay of the
run-up to the war of aggression against Iraq: The NYT funneling false
flag stories from Bush insiders. Warmongers citing the NYT stories as
“proof” justifying any and all action to “defend the Homeland.”
Credulous and craven Democratic politicians swallowing the Bush line
hook and sinker.

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This vote is the clearest signal yet that there will be no real
opposition to a Bush Administration attack on Iran. This is yet
another blank check from these slavish, ignorant goons; Bush can cash
it anytime. This is, in fact, the post-surge “Plan B” that’s been
mooted lately in the Beltway. As you recall, there was much throwing
about of brains on the subject of reviving the “Iraq Study Group” plan
when the “surge” (or to call it by its right name, the “punitive
escalation”) inevitably fails. Bush put the kibosh on that this week
(”Him not gonna do nothin’ that Daddy’s friends tell him to do! Him a
big boy, him the decider!”), but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a
fall-back position or rather, a spring-forward position: an attack on
Iran, to rally the nation behind the “war leader” and reshuffle the
deck in Iraq.

Of course, the United States is already at war with Iran. We are
directing covert ops and terrorist attacks inside Iran, with the help
of groups that our own government has declared terrorist renegades. We
are kidnapping Iranian officials in Iraq and holding them hostage. We
have a bristling naval armada on Iran’s doorstep, put there for the
express purpose of threatening Tehran with military action. The U.S.
Congress has overwhelmingly passed measures calling for the overthrow
of the Iranian government. And now the U.S. Senate has unanimously
declared that Iran is waging war on America, and has given official
notice that this will not be tolerated. It is only a very small step
to move from this war in all but name to the full monty of an overt
military assault.

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