While we are distracted by Iraq and Impeachment, the Surgeon General from Hell and The Blinding Stupidity of Joe Lieberman, the Bush Administration has spent the past month cooking up another little surprise for us.
Cheney Pushes Bush to Act on Iran
Ewen MacAskill and Julian Borger, in The Guardian UK wrote a chilling story, yesterday.
The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned.
The shift follows an internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and the state department over the last month. Although the Bush administration is in deep trouble over Iraq, it remains focused on Iran. A well-placed source in Washington said: "Bush is not going to leave office with Iran still in limbo."
Those of you who have suffered the slings and arrows from sane people who could not accept this as a remote possibility, are hereby awarded a Gold Star.
...at ameeting of the White House, Pentagon and state department last month, Mr Cheney expressed frustration at the lack of progress and Mr Bush sided with him. "The balance has tilted. There is cause for concern," the source said this week.
The Washington source said Mr Bush and Mr Cheney did not trust any potential successors in the White House, Republican or Democratic, to deal with Iran decisively.
No decision on military action is expected until next year. In the meantime, the state department will continue to pursue the diplomatic route.
Legacy? He wants a legacy?? He may well be planning Armagedon as his lasting legacy. He is too stupid to realize that there will be no one around to throw flowers and sweeties at his melted statue.
If that is not enough to work magic on your cockels, there's this. On Sunday, Think Progress reported:
As Senate Iran Vote Looms, Brownback Advocates Strike on Iran
On Wednesday, the Senate voted 97-0 to pass a resolution sponsored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) to censure Iran "for what it said was complicity in the killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq." The resolution required the Bush administration to regularly report to Congress on Iran's role in Iraq.
While the resolution explicitly rejected authorization for immediate military action, the gist of the resolution declared Iran is participating in acts of war against the United States, thereby laying the foundation for a confrontation with Iran.
Validating the concern many felt, Sen. Sam Brownback appeared on Fox News shortly after the vote and declared he was ready to preemptively strike Iran. Host Sean Hannity asked Brownback, "There's probably going to come a point for
the next president that they're going to have to determine whether to go out and have that preemptive strike. And you're ready and would be ready to do that?"
"Yes, I am, and I think we have to be," Brownback answered.
So the very worst of the unpatriotic, unconstitutional, painfully, embarassingly stupid of the crop of Republican Congress Critters, are now getting in line to support a preemptive strike on Iran, because the next administration can't be trusted to act in ways that will fill the needs of the psychopaths running this country?
We had better pay attention, kids. This ain't over, by a long shot.