How the US will engineer an invasion of Iran-Brilliant. And sadly true

[kpete]

How the US will engineer an invasion of Iran
by John in DC - 1/14/2006 03:44:00 PM


From Atrios. Brilliant. And sadly true.

Winter/Spring - The clone army of foreign policy "experts" from conservative foreign policy outfits nobody ever heard of before suddenly appear on all the cable news programs all the time, frowning furiously and expressing concerns about the "grave threat" that Iran poses. Never before heard of Iranian exile group members start appearing regularly, talking about their role in the nuclear program and talking up Iran's human rights violations.

Spring/Summer - "Liberal hawks" point out that all serious people understand the serious threat posed by serious Iran, and while they acknowledge grudgingly that the Bush administration has fucked up everything it touches, they stress, and I mean stress, that we really must support the Bush administration's serious efforts to deal with the serious problem and that criticisms of such serious approaches to a serious problem are highly irresponsible and come only from irrational very unserious Bush haters who would rather live in Iran than the U.S.

Late Summer - Rumsfeld denies having an Iran war plan "on his desk." He refuses to answer if he has one "in his file cabinet." Andy Card explains that you don't roll out new product until after labor day.

Early Fall - Bush suddenly demands Congress give him the authority to attack Iran to ensure they "disarm." Some Democrats have the temerity to ask "with what army?" Marshall Wittman and Peter Beinart explain that courageous Democrats will have the courageous courage to be serious and to confront the "grave threat" with seriousness and vote to send other peoples' kids off to war, otherwise they'll be seen as highly unserious on national security. Neither enlists.

Late October - Despite the fact that all but 30 Democrats vote for the resolution, Republicans run a national ad campaign telling voters that Democrats are objectively pro-Ahmadinejad. Glenn Reynolds muses, sadly, that Democrats aren't just anti-war, but "on the other side." Nick Kristof writes that liberals must support the war due to Ahmadinejad's opposition to gay rights in Iran.

Election Day - Democrats lose 5 seats in the Senate, 30 in the House. Marshall Wittman blames it on the "pro-Iranian caucus."

The Day After Election Day - Miraculously we never hear another word about the grave Iranian threat. Peter Beinart writes a book about how serious Democrats must support the liberation of Venezuela and Bolivia.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_01_08_atrios_archive.html#113726243140279477
via:http://americablog.blogspot.com/

[FogerRox]

1. gulp- hmmmm

[jmatthan]

2. Could not have written it better myself!

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[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Guess Diebold won't be needed then?

Whoever keeps falling for this fear mongering, needs to be kept away from the voting booth. :banghead:

[Orlandodem]

4. They'll claim we're not overstretched when we start

withdrawing a few thousand troops this year. There will be a drawdown by summer. The drumbeat of war against Iran will start soon after. The elections will come. Dems will be portrayed as weak on defense. They win in 2006 and go to war in 2007.

[kpete]

5. They win in 2006 and go to war in 2007?

Lets not let them WIN!!!

[Jose Diablo]

6. Demanding war in a election year is becoming a habit

Does this constitute terrorism by this administration? Threatening elected officials during the election year.

Too bad a bunch of republicans cannot be placed in jail for corruption and the shrub impeached.

[McCamy Taylor]

7. Why does no one ever factor in Election Fraud? That's why they win.

No one in America is going to vote a Repuke into office for saying he wants to invade Iran or even carpet bomv Iran. The GOP may CLAIM that is why they win votes, the way the CLAIMED that Iraq was why they got a triple amputee kicked out of the Senate. But people in the know know that a n illegal computer patch called "robgeorgia.zip" installed by Diebold on its Georgia E-voting machines weeks before the 2002 elections are what turned the tide in that election, the Iraq crap was just the excuse the WH came up with the explain the flying pigs that Diebold created.

I wish that people would start paying attention to the important stuff---like the friggin' flying pigs, aka the Election Theft that is going on all across our country and which ensures that Dems can never win no matter what the polls say or the GOP does.

For more, visit my fun filled site at

http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/index.htm

[mdmc]

8. let me check out that link

Spring/Summer - "Liberal hawks" point out that all serious people understand the serious threat posed by serious Iran, and while they acknowledge grudgingly that the Bush administration has fucked up everything it touches, they stress, and I mean stress, that we really must support the Bush administration's serious efforts to deal with the serious problem and that criticisms of such serious approaches to a serious problem are highly irresponsible and come only from irrational very unserious Bush haters who would rather live in Iran than the U.S.
(this sounds like HRC's reelection statedgy)...

[wellst0nev0ter]

9. They Forgot One Thing

Demand anal-probe weapons inspections sanctioned by the UN to make up for the lack of on-the-ground intelligence in Iran.