IS BUSH ABOUT TO ATTACK IRAN?

Wolf Blinzter just had some clownish Republican congressman (Charles Boustany of Louisiana, a vicious warmonger and total kook) on with Kendrick Meek (D-FL) and the Repug is doing his best-- which isn't encouraging-- to parrot fallacious Republican talking points (i.e.- lies about casualties, deaths, peaceful strolls in Iraqi cities and, most absurd of all, the "unbiased" report coming from his excellency General Davis BetrayUs). You look at these two congressmen and you see an honest, intelligent young man from Florida calling for a bipartisan effort to come up with a way to start cleaning up the mess the Bush Regime has saddled the country with; and then you see this lying sack of Mitt from Louisiana just spinning and spinning so hard that even Blintzer had to point out that the Mitt was flowing out of his ears.

And while all this is going on, London's Times is reporting that Bush and Cheney are preparing their real goal: an attack on Iran.

The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.

Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told the Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.

President George Bush intensified the rhetoric against Iran last week, accusing Tehran of putting the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust”. He warned that the US and its allies would confront Iran “before it is too late”.

One Washington source said the “temperature was rising” inside the administration. Bush was “sending a message to a number of audiences,” he said to the Iranians and to members of the United Nations security council who are trying to weaken a tough third resolution on sanctions against Iran for flouting a UN ban on uranium enrichment.

Maccabee over at Kos reports first hand knowledge about the preparations Bush is making for an illegal attack against Iran. Like many of us with friends in the military, Maccabee has a story about marines, soldiers and sailors who are very unhappy with the country's incompetent and venal leadership-- that and up to the minute preparations for a massive attack. Maccabee quoted his military source:

We are shipping in and assigning every damn Tomahawk we have in inventory. I think this is going to be massive and sudden, like thousands of targets. I believe that no American will know when it happens until after it happens. And whatever the consequences, whatever the consequences, they will have to be lived with. I am sure if my father knew I was telling someone in a news organization that we were about to launch a supposedly secret attack that it would be treason. But something inside me tells me to tell it anyway.

... I have become cynical only recently. I also don’t believe anyone will be able to stop this. Bush has become something of an Emperor. He will give the command, and cruise missiles will fly and aircraft will fly and people will die, and yet few of us here are really able to cobble together a great explanation of why this is a good idea. Of course many of us can give you the 4H Club lecture on democracy in the Mid East. But if you asked any of the flight officers whether they have a clear idea of what the goal of this strike is, your answer would sound like something out of a think tank policy paper. But it’s not like Kosovo or when we relieved the tsunami victims. There everyone could tell you in a sentence what we were here doing.

That’s what’s missing. A real sense of purpose. What’s missing is the answer to what the hell are we doing out here threatening this country with all this power? Last night in the galley, an ensign asked what right do we have to tell a sovereign nation that they can’t build a nuke. I mean the table got EF Hutton quiet. Not so much because the man was asking a question that was off culture. But that he was asking a good question. In fact, the discussion actually followed afterwards topside where someone in our group had to smoke a cigarette. The discussion was intelligent but also in lowered voices. It’s like we aren’t allowed to ask the questions that we always ask before combat. It’s almost as if the average seaman or soldier is doing all the policy work.

If Bush attacks Iran, Nancy Pelosi should be stapped to the first Tomahawk missle for taking impeachment off the table. And all the pathetic pygmies™ should be given their own Tomahawks to ride too. Then who will the Republicans run against Hillary? Well, Bill Maher has the obvious candidate for the Republican Party to run as the next George W. Bush.