Yet for now we should at least be happy with the good news: Armageddon is postponed.
- TIME Online
This is the concluding sentence from today's TIME article on Bush's press conference in regard to the NIE regarding Iran and their (apparently ephemeral) nuclear program. This known, I take it the author of said TIME article did not bother to watch this press conference. If anything, Bush seemed more resolute to haul off and bomb Iran then than he ever has been; the only difference between "before" and "after" the NIE is the furious spinning going on. Before, we were going to bomb Iran so Ahmadinejad didn't end up with a nuclear weapon. Now, we're going to bomb Iran.... so Ahmadinejad doesn't end up with a nuclear weapon.
"My opinion hasn't changed," Bush says. Like a true strongman in the fashion of you-know-who, he doesn't give a damn about facts. Armageddon postponed? I doubt that. Somehow, I find it within myself to once again second-guess the president on this issue. It isn't as though he's said anything even remotely alluding to taking these new data into consideration. Hell, even acknowledgment that there has been a shift in the intelligence community's view on Iran and their activities would be welcome from this monolithic bastion of ignorance we call the Unitary Executive.
Armageddon has not been postponed for this administration. Today, Bush did nothing less than get behind a podium and assure everyone that he hasn't lost his taste for the blood of dead soldiers. Anybody with a conscience would have paused for thought on perusal of the intelligence. Bush, living up to being an avalanche of ineptitude as the world sees him, continues unblinking.
The worst part of this sequence of events is not that it is happening now, but that it has happened before. Like a beagle that refuses to learn from repeated bunches of porcupine barbs in his snout, Bush is running headlong towards an Iran war as though there were no next generation by which he would be judged.
Or, is that his intent?
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