Many of us remember reading about the July 2002 Downing Street Memo, in which we learned the the chief of Britain's MI6 had expressed the view that our very own President of the United States
wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.The US public learned of this interesting fact through a British press leak in 2005, well after the deadly Bush/Cheney hobby horse had galloped out of the corral with the liberal New York Times glued into the saddle like a pair of Judith Miller's panties. When President Obama schlepped the last combat troops out of Iraq (or so "they" say) late last year, it wasn't just because he's a Nice Guy: it was because that corporation-driven war of aggression had no more measurable public support and addressed no critical US security interest.
Everyone who is nostalgic for a post-911 stiffie should be happy to hear that British Foreign Secretary William Hague is blaming Iran for threatening to make the civilized nations of Terra launch a "new cold war." That's mighty thoughty of the Persians, as Bullwinkle used to say, because it seems that this is exactly what all true patriots both happen to want and want to happen. And by all true patriots, I am referring to the usual cast of neocon civilian politicians and their heralds employed by the corporate media. Have you been sensing this lately, too?
Via air, maybe, and with the 12 tribes in attendance. But...(let me count the ways):
ReplyDelete1. it's not quite Darius II, but it's a formidable undertaking
2. as paid for how? Presuming that full repeal of the Bush tax cut is not on the table in this era of everything being on the table
3. internally rallying and consolidating power in Iran just miiiiiight not be the best idea
4. there's a chance of it becoming a reprise of a cold war proxy fight (Rock'em Sock'em robots, but with spewed intestines, burnt and blinded children, and roiling rivers of red blood seeping down through the sand to a sunless bone dry sea) -- and these days a Sino-Rus tagteam could win the cage match
5. the war horses may still bolt but not before the election - even if akin to the Preakness hope that they're meaphorical "mudders" (again, and again, and...gheesh surely diplomacy in all the myriad history of state craft is more than a one-trick-pony by now, who keeps electing these bozos?)
Prediction: one day you'll use a geiger counter as you fill your gas tank since it'll be a rough optimization of lowish price, relatively speaking, and least "hot"
Dread a Dare
that all took a pretty big jolt (911) to make it 'sellable'. Got any idea what the jolt might be this time? Would neocons and knesset-men stoop to detonating a dirty bomb in Chris Christie's Persian cornflakes?
ReplyDeleteAnon: as we all know, fiscal hawks care only about curbing deficits caused by domestic spending, so whatever might be done is paid for with printing presses (until the deficit hawks demand that we pull the feeding tube from Mom in order to pay for millionaire tax cuts). Air power, whatever. Lots of stupidity behind the drumbeat toward war, as always, but no logic is applied to such decisions except as it might roll down to corporate bottom lines.
ReplyDeletebO: I think Iraq could have happened without 9/11... and, really, it did. I think the 9/11 jolt was reserved mainly for pushing a war on US democracy from, ahem, inside. Knesset men? Well, it's a mighty powerful lobby they have there, right? And it gets along just fine with all the important cliques in The Coalition Of The Wall Street..., er, I mean, Willing.