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Capitalizing on a Lack of Success

Attention Deficit Disorder runs rampant with the Neocons. Maybe not, maybe they're just 3 year-olds with the attention span of a gnat and if they're not in possession of something new or shiny, they're just not happy. We've got little left to bomb in Iraq without having to be stuck rebuilding it... now what?

As with Iraq, the president has paved the way for the conditioning of the American public and an all-too-compliant media to accept at face value the merits of a regime change policy regarding Iran, linking the regime of the Mullah's to an "axis of evil" (together with the newly "liberated" Iraq and North Korea), and speaking of the absolute requirement for the spread of "democracy" to the Iranian people.

"Liberation" and the spread of "democracy" have become none-too-subtle code words within the neo-conservative cabal that formulates and executes American foreign policy today for militarism and war.

By the intensity of the "liberation/democracy" rhetoric alone, Americans should be put on notice that Iran is well-fixed in the cross-hairs as the next target for the illegal policy of regime change being implemented by the Bush administration.

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The reality is that the US war with Iran has already begun. As we speak, American over flights of Iranian soil are taking place, using pilotless drones and other, more sophisticated, capabilities.

The violation of a sovereign nation's airspace is an act of war in and of itself. But the war with Iran has gone far beyond the intelligence-gathering phase.

Oh, neat. Iran's newly elected President's a hard-liner with a desire to kick-start their nuclear program. Are they taunting our Cowboy in Chief or is this what the wingers call predestination? Bush wants to be the infinite 'War President' and his god is giving it to him?

WASHINGTON -- Insurgencies can go on for years, but the violence ravaging Iraq will eventually be quelled by homegrown forces rather than U.S. and other foreign troops, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says.

The violence could even worsen as Iraqi officials draft a constitution and Iraqi citizens prepare to install a new government by the end of the year, Rumsfeld said in television interviews Sunday.

He and other senior military officials asked Americans to be patient and support their troops as the war progresses.

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"That insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years," Rumsfeld said. "Coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency. We're going to create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win against that insurgency."

Holy crap. They're running this war like Enron and planning a run-up to Iran simultaneously.

At least they're not screwing it up so badly that we stand the chance of losing all of our international support, right?

GENEVA (AFX) - Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.

The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the ten-person panel, speaking on on condition of anonymity.

*sigh.

Well, at least the ruling majority, with their vast well of resources, supports the war and can pull from their base and backfill the sagging enlistment in the military. Apparently, they don't want liberals fighting this war for them.

Rest easy fellow Americans. Against a mastubatory backdrop of troops tomorrow night, our Leader will tell us how wonderful everything is, how splendid our efforts are and how we are the light shining in the darkness. Using of course, the same approach to truth used with; WMD, Mission Accomplished, Tax Cuts will save us all, Social Security is flailing, Cheney's health, etc... ad infinitum.

Posted by kerry at June 27, 2005 05:33 AM | TrackBack