Chairman of Neocons, Norman Podhoretz, Calls For Bombing Iran Now in WSJ

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Chairman of Neocons, Norman Podhoretz, Calls For Bombing Iran Now in WSJ

By M.J. Rosenberg

The clock is ticking. In 20 months the neocons, who have essentially dictated US foreign policy since 2001, will be out of power.

After January 2009, it won't matter what Podhoretz, Perle, Adelman, Kristol, Cheney, Feith, Bolton, Krauthammer, Libby, Wolfowitz, Wurmser, Pletka and assorted other warriors say on any foreign policy issue.

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You have to read the whole piece to get the full flavor of it. For Podhoretz, it is 1938 and Germany is on the march. The only difference between the Nazis and the Iranians is that the Iranians are suicidal. They do not love life and will happily die in an Israeli counterstrike for the love of Allah.

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This article will be read where it matters, by the people who can make this war happen.

If you think the Democratic Congress can prevent it, think again. Remember how the Democrats removed the language from the supplemental that would have forced the President to consult Congress before attacking Iran. As a result, there is no legal constraint on Bush although I am certain Speaker Pelosi will do what she can to enact that kind of language.

The opposition will be formidable. The people who gave us the Iraq war are still hungry. And this is their last chance.

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1. Exactly what I said the other day. The warmongers are getting

very bold. That's because they know that there's not opposition to their planned war crimes against yet another nation or nations.

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2. The October surprise 2008. n/t

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3. The following is from the nine page WSJ article......scary:

"In his 2002 State of the Union address, President Bush made a promise:

'We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.'
In that speech, the president was referring to Iraq, but he has made it clear on a number of subsequent occasions that the same principle applies to Iran. Indeed, he has gone so far as to say that if we permit Iran to build a nuclear arsenal, people 50 years from now will look back and wonder how we of this generation could have allowed such a thing to happen, and they will rightly judge us as harshly as we today judge the British and the French for what they did and what they failed to do at Munich in 1938. I find it hard to understand why George W. Bush would have put himself so squarely in the dock of history on this issue if he were resigned to leaving office with Iran in possession of nuclear weapons, or with the ability to build them. Accordingly, my guess is that he intends, within the next 21 months, to order air strikes against the Iranian nuclear facilities from the three U.S. aircraft carriers already sitting nearby."