Matthew Rothschild: Bush’s Iran War Plans

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Bush’s Iran War Plans
By Matthew Rothschild September 2007 Issue


If you don’t think Bush is planning on bombing Iran, well, then, you’re not paying attention. First, Bush put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list. Then, on August 28 at the American Legion convention, Bush blew his bellicose bugle.

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But let me offer a few possibilities.

First, Congress could pass a law that would expressly prohibit Bush from attacking Iran without receiving proper authorization under Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution.

Second, Congress could get serious on impeachment. Representative Dennis Kucinich’s bill to impeach Cheney cites his unwarranted threats against Iran. More members of the House need to sign on, and Representative John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, needs to open hearings on the impeachment of both Bush and Cheney. If the American people were made aware of all the high crimes and misdemeanors they have been committing, the momentum for impeachment would build, and Bush would have less power to go wage another illegal war.

Third, senior military officials could resign in protest ahead of any planned launch of the Iran bombs. A revolt among the brass might awaken the public to the folly that Bush is planning and might rattle the foreign policy establishment.

But above all, it’s up to us, as citizens, to put the heat on our government directly.

Mass protests in the late 1960s made Nixon reluctant to send additional troops to Vietnam and to think twice before using nuclear weapons there. Even with madmen in the White House, we still have power at our disposal. We must use it now.