Democrat, Republican, it would take a scanning electron microscope to see the differences in the two main parties of the US political system. Why do they waste our damned time with ‘non binding’ resolution? A non-binding resolution is like a Frenchman declaring war, it makes noise but does little else.
If the democrats want to show some real fortitude then they should keep Shrub from going to war with Iran. I doubt they have the gumption though, to close to ’08 and Rudy ‘Benito’ Guliani looks like too strong a contender to toy with.
I feel like Diogenes walking around in the daylight with a maglite looking for a politician with a set big enough to put a little weight behind something, anything. Of course, the few that do have any guts, Tom Coburn and Ted Kennedy, to actually challenge old Dub’ are so far out on the fringe that they have little or no chance of having an effect.
So, what hell? Is anyone going to try to stop President Bush from moving forward with his plans? Or, are we forced to sit back and watch our elected officials perform with the same mediocrity we’ve seen for the past 50 years.
The state of our elected government is unequivocally, repulsive.
Showing posts with label iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iran. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Bush White House Draws Closer To War....
In 2003, George W. Bush presented his case to the American people, the United Nations, and the world in attempt to justify the imminent invasion of Iraq. In the weeks, leading up to the ill-conceived invasion the White House bombarded the media with all sorts of information creating the case for the war with that nation.
By the time US invasion had begun the large majority of Americans were convinced the war was justified. However, less than a year later the argument began to unravel. The release of critical information showing the fabrication of US pre-war intelligence led to the current suspicion most Americans have of the Bush White House.
Now, we are on the cusp of yet another conflict and the Bush White House is up to its old tricks. Anyone with half a brain can see the Bush administration is fabricating the case against Iran. This is not to say that Iran is innocent, no, the Iranian government has made clear its intent to wreak havoc in the region by pushing forward with a nuclear program that is no more peaceful than I am a Martian.
However, even the provocative action of developing nuclear weapons does not justify the United States striking the country. According to current intelligence estimates from the Central Intelligence Agency, Iran is at least three years from production of a thermonuclear weapon.
This is not to say the US should sit idly by and wait for Iran to develop weapons of mass destruction that would threaten not only the stability of the Middle East, but the world. No, the US should act, but we should have reacted long ago, before we were bogged down in Bush’s personal vendetta with Hussein. Nevertheless, action does not mean a swift invasion followed by involvement in yet another failed occupation. Yet, sanctions are not effective either. So, what is the US to do? Damned if we do and certainly damned if we don’t!
Therefore, what actions can we take without the entire world falling into world war? And, if the US engages Iran in a full-scale conflict it will very likely spread across the Middle East and eventually involve all of Central Asia.
The obvious choice would be to gain support in the global community for harsh economic sanctions, naval blockades, increased pressure from Russia and China, and to strangle the Iranian insurgency in Iraq. But, this would take time and the cooperation of the Iraqi people and Bush has less than two years in the White House therefore he must act quickly and decisively to achieve the corporate agenda.
So, within the next few months, likely before May, the US will charge headlong into war with Iran perhaps even using nuclear weapons, and ignoring the tempered response of more prudent strategists. I am not advocating the US rolling over for Teheran. No, we must show strength, but strength is not walking up to a known burglar and slugging him because he might steal from your house. Strength is preparedness and vigilance, strength is having the character measure your response. Thus far, the Bush White House has fallen short on all three. With that in mind, the White House’s assurances that we will not engage in war with Iran does very little to reassure me.
By the time US invasion had begun the large majority of Americans were convinced the war was justified. However, less than a year later the argument began to unravel. The release of critical information showing the fabrication of US pre-war intelligence led to the current suspicion most Americans have of the Bush White House.
Now, we are on the cusp of yet another conflict and the Bush White House is up to its old tricks. Anyone with half a brain can see the Bush administration is fabricating the case against Iran. This is not to say that Iran is innocent, no, the Iranian government has made clear its intent to wreak havoc in the region by pushing forward with a nuclear program that is no more peaceful than I am a Martian.
However, even the provocative action of developing nuclear weapons does not justify the United States striking the country. According to current intelligence estimates from the Central Intelligence Agency, Iran is at least three years from production of a thermonuclear weapon.
This is not to say the US should sit idly by and wait for Iran to develop weapons of mass destruction that would threaten not only the stability of the Middle East, but the world. No, the US should act, but we should have reacted long ago, before we were bogged down in Bush’s personal vendetta with Hussein. Nevertheless, action does not mean a swift invasion followed by involvement in yet another failed occupation. Yet, sanctions are not effective either. So, what is the US to do? Damned if we do and certainly damned if we don’t!
Therefore, what actions can we take without the entire world falling into world war? And, if the US engages Iran in a full-scale conflict it will very likely spread across the Middle East and eventually involve all of Central Asia.
The obvious choice would be to gain support in the global community for harsh economic sanctions, naval blockades, increased pressure from Russia and China, and to strangle the Iranian insurgency in Iraq. But, this would take time and the cooperation of the Iraqi people and Bush has less than two years in the White House therefore he must act quickly and decisively to achieve the corporate agenda.
So, within the next few months, likely before May, the US will charge headlong into war with Iran perhaps even using nuclear weapons, and ignoring the tempered response of more prudent strategists. I am not advocating the US rolling over for Teheran. No, we must show strength, but strength is not walking up to a known burglar and slugging him because he might steal from your house. Strength is preparedness and vigilance, strength is having the character measure your response. Thus far, the Bush White House has fallen short on all three. With that in mind, the White House’s assurances that we will not engage in war with Iran does very little to reassure me.
Friday, February 9, 2007
Iranian Sleeper Cells Danger To US!
The Unites States is once again on the path to war. And, like Iraq, we are grasping at straws for intelligence to bolster those claims. America will leave no rock overturned as we quietly seek away to get ourselves embroiled in yet another conflict.
However, unlike Iraq, the US will likely be forced to use tactical nuclear weapons to achieve our goals. With US conventional forces exhausted and near collapse, it will be necessary to use tac-nucs to achieve a quick ‘victory’.
What the US is not anticipating, or not telling the public, is that Iran has more sleeper cells in the US than Al Qaeda ever thought of having. Many of them brought in decades before 9/11. Groups such as Hezbollah, which are supported financially by the Iranian government, have filtered into the United States since the early 80’s.
While many of these groups have become ‘Americanized’ and inactive with no intent of acting on their decades old training, the more recent arrivals, brought to our country via the H1B visa, are like coiled vipers nestled under warm rocks waiting to strike out at us.
I do not support the invasion of Iran. The time for effective military action with Teheran has passed just as it has passed with North Korea. President Bush focused early on in the war on terror on settling old scores for ‘pop’ and not on the real Axis’s of evil. Now the window has passed.
I hope and pray the FBI, CIA, NSA, SS, ICE, and other DHS agencies can keep us relatively safe (with the confines of the law) as Bush charges forward with his grand folly.
God Bless America!
However, unlike Iraq, the US will likely be forced to use tactical nuclear weapons to achieve our goals. With US conventional forces exhausted and near collapse, it will be necessary to use tac-nucs to achieve a quick ‘victory’.
What the US is not anticipating, or not telling the public, is that Iran has more sleeper cells in the US than Al Qaeda ever thought of having. Many of them brought in decades before 9/11. Groups such as Hezbollah, which are supported financially by the Iranian government, have filtered into the United States since the early 80’s.
While many of these groups have become ‘Americanized’ and inactive with no intent of acting on their decades old training, the more recent arrivals, brought to our country via the H1B visa, are like coiled vipers nestled under warm rocks waiting to strike out at us.
I do not support the invasion of Iran. The time for effective military action with Teheran has passed just as it has passed with North Korea. President Bush focused early on in the war on terror on settling old scores for ‘pop’ and not on the real Axis’s of evil. Now the window has passed.
I hope and pray the FBI, CIA, NSA, SS, ICE, and other DHS agencies can keep us relatively safe (with the confines of the law) as Bush charges forward with his grand folly.
God Bless America!
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Too Late For War With Iran.....
The United States seems to be on a collision course with Iran. Despite claims to the contrary the Bush Administration seems to be hell bent on war with Iran. At present, there are two US carrier groups in the region and strategic bombers at the ready in Europe. People have been predicting the wars start for some time. However, several world events have prevented the Bush White House from moving forward with this cataclysmically stupid plan.
The first was the testing of a nuclear weapon by North Korea, followed by a sudden increase in tensions between Pakistan and India, and the Israeli-Lebanon conflict that occurred this past summer. Of course, Teheran likely manufactured the Israeli-Lebanon conflict to stave off invasion---at least for a few months.
Nevertheless, like that pair of tattered underwear that always seems to turn up in the laundry despite every effort to get rid of it, the US seems to continue to table military option with Iran. And truth is, prior to the Iraq invasion this would not have been all that bad of a plan. However, Bush and his cronies, in all their infinite wisdom have missed the window for this plan to work and in fact, it may just backfire on the White House and plunge the world into war.
I shudder at the thought of the United States in a full-scale war with Soviets and China. And do not delude yourselves, it could happen. The US is not the lone super power that Foxnews would have you believe. Militarily we are stretched as thin as a sheet of saran wrap.
Believe me, I love this country, but patriotism is not toeing the party line! We need to get our asses out of the Middle East and quit deluding ourselves that we are somehow keeping the terrorists off our soil by fighting in Iraq. The only reason terrorists have not hit us here in the US has been the hard work of the FBI, NSA, and CIA and the sheer grace of the cosmos! Not the action in Iraq as President Bush would have you believe.
I do not mean to sound like a bastard but, the fight for Iraq was window dressing to shore up Bush’s lack of domestic policies and failure to capture Bin Laden in the two years after 9/11.
Despite what Wall Street would have you believe, the economy is in shambles, our government is selling us out to Mexico, and the concepts of liberty are being replaced piecemeal with proto-fascism disguised as anti-terrorist legislation.
If we do not change the course we are on soon, we will be telling our grandchildren about the late, great United States of America.
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