Dissociation

by tristero

It’s a weird experience reading Hersh’s article on the plans for war in Iran. They couldn’t sell the idea of the nuclear threat. So now they’re gonna sell the war with a different reason. The mind boggles.

Let’s go over that again. One excuse doesn’t work, so they come up with another. And if that one doesn’t fly, you can bet your bippy they’ll find a third. The important thing is: sell the war.

Got it? That means there is no real reason to go to war with Iran. If there was, they wouldn’t be switching reasons when they don’t poll well. Bush and Cheney just want to do it. That’s all. They just want to.

I can’t believe this is happening. And I have no idea how this can be stopped. This is sheer madness, not only on Bush’s part. A press that isn’t howling loudly about this, a political class that isn’t speaking up as one to prevent this, and finally, a public that can’t be troubled to protest warmaking on a whim – the country is as insane as it was in the fall of ’02.

And that is really fucking scary.