Now that Obama is a shoo-in, I’m all for lowering the stratospheric expectations that the Obama camp have stoked throughout the primaries and which allowed Barack Obama to squeak out a win in the state primaries, but this is ridiculous.
"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy," Biden told an audience in Seattle this past weekend. "Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
Uhh...... ok.
"Mark my words, mark my words," Biden stressed, noting that "tough" and "unpopular" foreign policy decisions will have to be made. "I promise you it will occur," Biden added, "As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it is going to happen."
Either Biden is astoundingly, stupidly gaffetastic, or he knows something we don’t. Since he’s not stupid and not as gaffe-prone as Republican shills make him out to be, he clearly is preparing Americans for another staged attack.
Consider Colin Powell’s comments on Meet The Press: "There’s going to be a crisis which will come along on the 21st, 22nd of January that we don’t even know about right now."
The most likely crisis is Iran announcing, or the U.S. government claiming, that Iran is ready to build its first nuclear bomb.
On Tuesday, the Mossad front news outlet Debka File reported that "Iran will be ready to build its first bomb just one month after the next US president is sworn in." The very next sentence of the report ties this in with Biden’s promise of an international crisis immediately after Obama takes office.
"Debka File’s military sources cite the new US timeline: By late January, 2009, Iran will have accumulated enough low-grade enriched uranium (up to 5%) for its ‘break-out’ to weapons grade (90%) material within a short time. For this, the Iranians have achieved the necessary technology. In February, they can move on to start building their first nuclear bomb," says the report.
Obama’s inauguration in January is more and more a done deal. Now it’s clear that he will pick up the mantle of Bush and the Neocons by going to war with Iran shortly after taking office.