Iran: Good News, Bad News & More News
For an administration that has been more inclined to saber-rattle than talk, the news that the U.S. may meet face to face with Iran and Syria is most welcome.
Less welcome are the stories saying that the White House has been weighing air attacks on Iran even in the face of threats by General Peter Pace, head of the Joint Chief of Staff, and other Pentagon bigs that they would resign if the saber rattlers don’t back off.
Meanwhile, there is further evidence that the administration was blowing smoke up our backsides when it claimed that those nasty explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs) that are showing up in roadside bombs are much too sophisticated to be made in Iraq and therefore had to come from Iran with the complicity of the highest levels of the Tehran government:
Another makeshift factory used to fabricate EFPs has been found in Iraq.
The White House really takes us to be fools, doesn’t it?
More here, as well as my previous thoughts on the administration’s woeful inability to stop exaggerating and lying about Iran.
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Stevesturm- Even most of the conservatives here agree that Iraq was mostly about oil. If they were serious about creating a stable democracy, Bremer wouldn’t have fired 500,000 people, dismantled all of the government-run businesses and just hoped for the best. They just never realized that all of those unemployed Sunnis would go underground and form the insurgency. Bremer did open Iraq up to foreign investors right away—-like Shell, Exxon and Chevron, who just happened to have been huge campaign contributors for Bush/Cheney.
No other explanation really makes sense. And look at Cheney- the man that allowed the CEO’s of the biggest oil companies in America to come secretly to the WH and formulate our energy policy with generous tax breaks for exploration and development, of course.
Stevesturm— I think Iran is a huge danger-but through Hezbollah to Israel. The Israelis are terrified that if Iran gets nukes, they’ll pass them on to Hezbollah or Hamas and they could lose an entire city. The Israeli lobby is pressuring Bush to take out the sites before leaving office. The Iranians are moving a lot of their nuclear technology to Tehran to protect it from American or Israeli bombs. That is why we are so afraid of leaving Iraq- if Iran controls Iraq’s oil it will fund Hezbollah and Hamas with it to attack Israel. Its also why we are choosing to fund extremist Sunni groups which want to eliminate Hezbollah (hersh’s article).
All:
I’ve got to go pull wings off of flies, so this will be my final barf.
Notwithstanding the small handful of folks suffering from Degenerative Comment Thread Disorder (DCTD), the response to my post has been quite illuminating.
The Moderate Voice is an amazing harbor in the blogosphere and I urge you to not forget that.
I am rabidly anti-Bush and anti-Iraq war, yet I have killed brain cells today defending the president’s decision to reverse field and sit down with his enemies. Like where else can that happen?
We all owe Joe G. a big thank-you for his most excellent job as harbor master.
Or maybe he was just happy to see you?
Sorry, I just couldn’t pass that one up.
And sorry, Shaun, for getting off topic again.
Hehe, you may be just another one of those crazy wingnuts, but at least you’re usually more funny and intelligent than, say, Bob Novak, C.
CS-That was really funny!
It was good to take a break from the gloom and doom that usually surrounds me when reading news or blogs.
Well, Kim fed me the ultimate straight line so I had to go for it…