Groundhog Day (NYT re */Iran)

Stop us if you've heard this one before. The Bush administration creates a false sense of urgency about a nuclear menace from a Middle Eastern country. Hard-liners talk about that country's connections to terrorists. They portray European diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions as a feckless attempt to appease a rogue nation whose word can never be trusted anyway. Secretary of State Colin Powell makes ominous-sounding warnings about new intelligence, which turns out to be dubious.

That is how President Bush rushed the country into an unnecessary conflict with Iraq in his first term, and we have been seeing alarming signs of that approach all week on Iran.

Let's be cleareyed about this: Iran has an active nuclear program, has not tried terribly hard to hide it and has been dishonest in its dealings with the West. But nothing we have seen suggests some new, urgent development in Iran that would impel American officials to start talking about "the military option." In fact, the most recent developments have been encouraging. Last week, under the threat of a looming U.N. deadline, Tehran said it would freeze all uranium and plutonium processing and invite back international inspectors. <snip>

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/opinion/20sat1.html?th

And also on the PNAC list. Therefore, Iran must be invaded so it's citizens can be free--sorta like those in neighboring Iraq. With Bush's "mandate", and more than half the nation's voters apparently unable to do anything but support him (that "cognitive dissonance" thing), it seems clear that Iran's days are numbered. Freedom is on the march. America has lots and lots of young people who can be pressed into service on short notice. No sacrifice is too great as Bush pursues his mission of global domination, spends his political capital and carries out the will of the people.

War, after all, is peace. Orwell must be spinning in his grave. God help us all!

N. Korea will nuke us. They have the precident of unilatreal action-provided by Bush himself. Hang onto your hats, boys and girls. It's going to be a very bumpy ride from here on out.