Diarist's note: I originally posted this back in April, when there was lots of administration buzz about dropping a few low-yield, tactical, bunker-busting nuclear weapons on Iran.
Here, wait, let's edit that sentence so it's clearer: I originally posted this back in April, when there was lots of administration buzz about dropping a few low-yield, tactical, bunker-busting freaking NUCLEAR WEAPONS on Iran !!!!
Better. Okay, anyway, in light of the fact that the Idiot King and his cadre of Fellow Idiots have since that time succeeded, through such outrageous talk, in moving the Overton Window sufficiently to the point where the discussion now is about, not a patently insane nuclear attack on Iran - at least, not by the U.S. - but about a "mere" "surge" of 21,500 troops and a few carrier groups to the Persian Gulf neighborhood, pretty much guaranteed to incite/cause/precipitate/facilitate a shooting conflict of some kind with Iran, the looming reality of the scenario envisioned in this diary is becoming more and more imminent, I fear.
So - some fear-mongering of my own, in response to that of the BushCheney cabal. - o.h.
(Also available at My Left Wing)
I have two daughters, who are approaching draft-eligible age.
I don't want them to be drafted.
Ever.
By anybody.
But least of all by some out-of-control power-hungry lunatic's armed services that are grinding up cannon fodder to service some fucked-up excuse for a noble cause that in actuality is just a fucking blood-soaked ATM machine for the wealthiest one-tenth of one percent of the rich bastards in this country, and their minions.
Fuck that.
And I WILL move to Canada - or Switzerland, or friggin' Australia, or wherever - to keep that from happening.
NO WAY IN HELL ARE THEY GETTING MY DAUGHTERS.
This Iran misadventure is fucking mind-boggling to me. I mean, did we just now all of a sudden figure out that Iran might someday produce a nuclear weapon? Alert the media! This counts as a news flash??? Huh-LO-oh! Where the hell have these people been all these past 15 years?? You think I feel SAFE with these idiots in charge? Where's the real nuclear threat here? Here, how `bout a clue: North Korea, Pakistan, Iran. In that order - and that's giving Iran a helluva lot of credit.
Okay, so anyone with a lick of sense and a smattering of awareness of world affairs - oh, I know, that would eliminate all of the neocon droids in the Bush White House - but still, everyone ELSE knew YEARS AGO that Iran and North Korea were working hard to get nuclear weapons. So, what do the friggin' Phi Beta Kappas in the Bush Administration do? Why, they INVADE IRAQ, of course! What else would they do, you knucklehead??
And then, after making sure that THAT is an unmitigated DISASTER, they turn their bleary, power-drunken gaze to the next victim, Iran. Iran, who offered in 2002 and 2003 to sit down and talk with our diplomats about EVERY FUCKING THING - nukes, Israel - you name it. But what do the enlightened diplomats of the Bush Administration do? They tell Iran to go fuck itself - after all, it wouldn't be polite to bomb the living shit out of a country that you had been negotiating with, now would it? I mean, how would it sound: "Gee, we had a swell time discussing restrictions and monitoring of your domestic nuclear program and all, but I've got a 3-megaton bunker-buster that I've been just DYING to try out, so you'll have to go home now. Here's your coat! Have a nice nuclear winter! Buh-bye! See ya! Wouldn't wanna be ya!" Slam. (In the meantime, better buy some shovels and practice your duck-and-cover. Then kiss your ass goodbye.)
And since the morons in the Bush Administration wouldn't know a diplomatic overture - or an opportunity to find a diplomatic solution instead of a military one - if it came up and bit them in the codpiece, here we are: on the brink of an un-fucking-believable war with Iran, because the Numbnuts-in-Chief can't tell the difference between his joint and a JDAM - all he knows is he wants a REALLY FUCKING BIG ONE, because that will prove to the world what a great man he is, and how much better than his daddy he is. He wants to be a Great President, and he doesn't care whose daughters' blood he has to spill to become one (as long as it's not his own).
Well, fuck him.
Y'know, I rarely resort to the F-word when I write here on dKos. I leave that to others far more eloquent than myself. But when I realize that this asshole has told THE WORLD, openly and without shame - an emotion I am 100% certain he is incapable of - that other presidents - presidentS, plural - will have to clean up his mess in Iraq, that now he is bored with that broken toy and turning his gnat-like attention span to a new plaything across the border, and mostly that MY DAUGHTERS will be eligible for the INEVITABLE draft that will be required to support his in-fucking-same adventure - well, my blood boils and I can't help myself. Fuck him. Fuck him, and all the horse's asses he has ridden in on.
That ANYONE in this Administration - no, in this COUNTRY - is seriously discussing dropping nuclear weapons on Iran is BEYOND COMPREHENSION. And if the American people can pull themselves away from their Starbucks-addled stupor and think clearly about it for more than 2 seconds - maybe during the commercial break on "American Idol" - they'll realize that this step into the abyss is going to cost them a helluva lot more than $3 a gallon.
What IS the price of blood, nowadays, anyway? I mean, YOUR CHILDREN'S blood?
I'm sorry, but I just had to vent. Thanks for listening.
UPDATE: Per LNK in the comments, a clarification might be helpful here. Although I don't like the idea of anyone's kids being drafted to fight a war, I understand the need sometimes arises. As I wrote downthread, "When there's a REAL threat to the very existence of this country, Katie bar the door at the recruiting stations (Cf. December 8, 1941). If it's a cooked-up war like this one - not so much." I happen to like very much the idea of some kind of mandatory, universal national service for kids just out of high school - but I absolutely will not support sending my kids to enable an illegal, immoral, unjustifiable war invasion and occupation.