Nuclear Option
The drumbeat for a new war in the middle east is apparently still going strong, and the Bush administration has Iran in its crosshairs. According to sources within the administration from a must-read New Yorker article by Seymour Hirsch, Bush has a messianic vision about "fixing Iran" and removing their government.
Bush and others in the White House view him (the president of Iran) as a potential Adolf Hitler, a former senior intelligence official said. That's the name they're using. They say, "Will Iran get a strategic weapon and threaten another world war?'"A government consultant with close ties to the civilian leadership in the Pentagon said that Bush was absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get the bomb if it is not stopped. He said that the President believes that he must do '"what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do," and "that saving Iran is going to be his legacy."
One former defense official, who still deals with sensitive issues for the Bush Administration, told me that the military planning was premised on a belief that "a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government." He added, "I was shocked when I heard it, and asked myself, 'What are they smoking?'"
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The only "messianic vision" the Bush administration has is the one that says, "You got re-elected because of the last war. Your approval ratings suck. Hmmm... Maybe if you go start another war people will like you."
This whole thing stinks.
And where is bin Laden, anyway?
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