This Time They Plan To Do It Right

by tristero

No, this time (meaning going to war with Iran, which very well could mean going to nuclear war with Iran, with your tax dollars being spent on a first strike), there’ll be no ambiguous, mysterious meetings that didn’t happen in Prague, but a clear-cut casus belli. This time, there’ll be heaps of dead Americans killed unambiguously by The Evildoers which we’ll splatter all over the news shows (tastefully cropped, of course, so that anyone who sees them won’t start to wonder what on earth they were doing in harm’s way in the first place).

And if those goddamm treacherous Iranians are too lazy to go out of their way to attack us for no good reason, well then, hell, we’re just gonna help make it right easy for them:

“They intend to be as provocative as possible and make the Iranians do something [America] would be forced to retaliate for,” says Hillary Mann, the administration’s former National Security Council director for Iran and Persian Gulf Affairs. …

A second Navy carrier group is steaming toward the Persian Gulf, and NEWSWEEK has learned that a third carrier will likely follow. Iran shot off a few missiles in those same tense waters last week, in a highly publicized test. With Americans and Iranians jousting on the chaotic battleground of Iraq, the chances of a small incident’s spiraling into a crisis are higher than they’ve been in years.

The time to shut down Bush’s mad scheme to go to war with Iran is now. Call your Congresscritters and demand they act immediately to stop this insanity.