The War on Iran gets closer as the lies come fast and furious
When the U.S. attacks Iran, it’ll get much easier to diagram the simple strategy the PNAC crowd, led by George W. Bush, lead neo-con. We can look back and chart the lies told to the U.S. public to get the U.S. into Iraq, and compare them with the lies being told to get us into Iran. It’s a very simple process actually, and for the White House, which by no means is going to bother with Congress regarding an attack on Iran, it’s a plan that works like a charm.
Lie. Call them Hitlers. Lie some more. Tell people in Des Moines that Iran leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is planting suitcase nukes under their bed. Attack. Deal with the nightmare mess later. War matters, results don’t.
Currently, we’re at the Hitler and lying part.
From Condoleeza Rice:
“It would be like saying that after Adolf Hitler was overthrown, we needed to change then, the resolution that allowed the United States to do that, so that we could deal with creating a stable environment in Europe after he was overthrown.”
From White House press spokesman Tony Fratto:
“The president said this isn’t the fight we entered in Iraq, but it’s the fight we’re in,” Fratto told reporters Friday. “We went in as a multinational force under U.N. authorization to take military action in Iraq. We were there as an occupying force, and now we’re there at the invitation of the sovereign, elected government of Iraq.”
From Laura Bush:
Nobody wants war. No one’s pro-war…
Just more outright falsehoods from the Oligarchs in charge. Because Laura, you’ve been around this group for a long time now, and you have to know you are lying.
The people running the U.S. want more war in the Middle East. The entire PNAC dream revolves around bombing the shit out of every nation in the area, and then deciding which sect to back. And they’ll be getting it, quite soon. Because while the truth is out there, this administration and the media have not shown much interest in it. The U.S. will be attacking Iran, and soon.
–WKW
February 27th, 2007 at 7:06 am
US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack
I think Bush needs a casus belli or something he can imply is the casus belli, e.g.
9/11 (Iraq), Gulf of Tonkin (Vietnam), Pearl Harbour (WWII), Maine (Spanish-American), Lusitania (WWI), invasion by Mexico (Mexican-American War, Fort Sumter (war with Confederacy), etc.
Even though Saddam had zero to do with 9/11, I think it’s safe to say Bush couldn’t have invaded Iraq had 9/11 not occurred.
Without another 9/11 or maybe some terrible attack in Iraq that can be attributed to Iran, Bush won’t get his way with Iran.
February 27th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Oh, and be sure to read antiwar.com’s editor’s latest: America’s Alliance With bin Laden
We’re playing the Sunni card in the Middle East – and that means playing footsie with al-Qaeda
“Having handed the Middle East to Tehran on a silver platter, we are mobilizing all available forces in a single-minded effort to snatch it from them. More surrealist than Orwellian, this self-defeating rat-on-a-treadmill policy guarantees one thing: perpetual war. It is just the sort of overly “clever” Machiavellian move that is bound to backfire, and badly. One shudders to imagine the sort of “blowback” playing the Sunni card will entail. The last time we sided with Sunni radicals, we got bin Laden – and 9/11. This time, it’s entirely possible we’ll reap an even harsher whirlwind.”
March 9th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
[…] While bombing the bejesus out of its neighbor, the United States has steadfastly - except when they haven’t - held firm to the concept that any type of diplomacy with Iran and Syria would be a sign that every last American is a pussy. […]