Real Men Go To Tehran

by digby

Accidental? Really?

Andrea Mitchell just said:

As the civil war grows deadlier by the day, the Bush administration is increasingly blaming Iran.

I feel, once again, as if I’m watching this take place under water. It’s all there, I can see it, but it’s all a bit distorted and everything is moving in slow motion. I’m screaming, but it comes out muffled and imprecise. The Bush administration is provoking a war with Iran, in real time, on television and we are just watching it happen.

I also just heard CNN reporting that the administration plans to avoid a repeat of Colin Powell’s presentation to the UN that “was convincing but turned out to be inaccurate.” Whatever. They don’t care. These people have absolutely no credibility and they are counting on the news media to be their slack-jawed(and war-ratings hungry) selves — and the nation to be paralyzed and unbelieving until it’s too late.

If this country allows the Bush administration to run their game again and start yet another war, we’d better get ready to see our lives change in some fundamental ways. The world will not forgive us — and we shouldn’t forgive ourselves. This is very, very serious.

Arthur Silber prescribes some very strong medicine for Democrats to stop this thing in his post Time Has Run Out — and the Choice Is Yours. I’m afraid he’s right and I’m also almost certain that it will not happen.

Update: Scott Ritter has some suggestions about how to avoid this war. not that anyone will listen. He was right about Iraq and has expertise in the region of WMD so nobody should listen to him. (He weird.)

H/T to reader CR.
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