- Nov 6, 2005
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The Seymour Hersh article in the New Yorker confirms what many have long feared. That this latest Israelie incursion into Lebanon was just a dry run for the next Bush Cheney neocon target which is Iran. Nor is a true neocon deterred by failure---as that delicious dish of Iraq stew has now soured and spoiled--its clearly time to prepare a new meal for their ever hungry belly---and to put added backbone into their somewhat cowed front man Bush---those in the background keep whispering that Bush will be a failed President if he does not dispose of Iran before his term ends. A brillant strategy when you think of it---when one bungles badly in Iraq and is thought as a presently failed President---the vindication of future historians upgrading Bush to visionary status is the only hope left.---but also carries the risk of elevating Bush to the worst President in history and the first in history to give a command performance at the Hague.
In terms of selling the Iran war in the same way they sold the Iraq war---I strongly doubt that would be a viable option---the US public is now sceptical, the congress may be more reluctant, and the UN would almost certainly not permit it---not to mention the fact that the USA has already bit off more than it can chew in Iraq---and now even a lone standing super power finds its military stretched to a breaking point.---but an upcoming election and a 33% approval rating for the GOP's standard bearer adds a now or never urgency
to the 90% initial apporval ratings both Bush's had early on in their wars.
So I am suggesting that what we will see is the favorite trick of the tyrant---a staged provication similar to what Hitler used to justify his invasion of Poland---as a contigent of German troops dressed in Polish uniforms took over a German radio station---it may not of fooled the British and French---but it rallied the German people four square behind Hitler---and they only learned the truth after a bloody war that led them into diaster and ruin. Given that a similar provacation is the only way I can conceive of that will allow the neocons to dupe us in the USA into a war with Iran---I write this post as a warning and as food for thought.
In terms of selling the Iran war in the same way they sold the Iraq war---I strongly doubt that would be a viable option---the US public is now sceptical, the congress may be more reluctant, and the UN would almost certainly not permit it---not to mention the fact that the USA has already bit off more than it can chew in Iraq---and now even a lone standing super power finds its military stretched to a breaking point.---but an upcoming election and a 33% approval rating for the GOP's standard bearer adds a now or never urgency
to the 90% initial apporval ratings both Bush's had early on in their wars.
So I am suggesting that what we will see is the favorite trick of the tyrant---a staged provication similar to what Hitler used to justify his invasion of Poland---as a contigent of German troops dressed in Polish uniforms took over a German radio station---it may not of fooled the British and French---but it rallied the German people four square behind Hitler---and they only learned the truth after a bloody war that led them into diaster and ruin. Given that a similar provacation is the only way I can conceive of that will allow the neocons to dupe us in the USA into a war with Iran---I write this post as a warning and as food for thought.