The Iran Card

My new friend Jim over at Derosa World and I were discussing the "Iran Card". As most of us know, the Bush administration is again orchestrating a new and improved war with Iran. He hinted during his last speech and he's building another pile of "fears" to plunge down the throats of all Americans.

Increased US military activity in the Gulf is aimed at Iran's "very negative" behaviour, the Bush administration said today.
The defence secretary, Robert Gates, told reporters that the decision to deploy a Patriot missile battalion and a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf in conjunction with a "surge" of troops in Iraq was designed to show Iran that the US was not "overcommitted" in Iraq.

Ah yes! Iran's "very negative behavior". What is that exactly? Iran has every right to be angry with the occupiers of its neighbor. If Canada were invaded without just cause, had monstrous civilian casualties, would we smile, pop the corn and settle in for a few years of entertainment? I didn't think so.

Speaking in Brussels after meeting Nato officials, Mr Gates said: "We are simply reaffirming that statement of the importance of the Gulf region to the United States and our determination to be an ongoing strong presence in that area for a long time into the future."

Ongoing strong presence? What happened to the "step up/step down" plan?

His remarks followed tough comments on Iran at the weekend from other senior US officials. The vice-president, Dick Cheney, accused Iran of "fishing in troubled waters inside Iraq", while the national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said the US was "going to need to deal with what Iran is doing inside Iraq".
Such remarks, following the prospect of "hot pursuit" raids into Iran as raised by George Bush in his televised address last week, have fuelled speculation that the US is softening up the American public for possible action against Tehran.

The increasingly confrontational pose struck by the US is a repudiation of one of the key recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, which called for the start of a dialogue with Iran and Syria in an effort to extricate the US from Iraq.

You can read the entire article here.

This entire scenario is being played out like a bad B movie. But that's not what it is. It's real life. Our lives, the lives of our sons and daughters and friends, the lives of the Iranians and Syrians and Iraqi's.

WE as Americans need to step up - and step this administration down, down into court, into impeachment before they bring us down into a hell the likes no one has ever seen before.