Could Fitzmas Lead To An Attack on Iran?

[Carolab]

As focused as we all are on the investigation--are they planning the BIGGEST DISTRACTION of all?

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In fact, at the same hearing where I took Dr. Rice to task for the Administration's many false statements and changing justifications for the invasion of Iraq, I was extremely distressed to hear her lay out yet another even broader mission for our soldiers -- to remake the Middle East.

Even more unbelievably, Rice insisted that rebuilding the entire Middle East has been the Bush Administration's mission ever since 9/11. Well that is not what Congress voted for in either the resolution authorizing force in Afghanistan or Iraq, and it is not what the American people believed to be our goal. The Bush Administration is trying to perpetuate yet another classic "bait and switch," because Congress and the American people would never have supported an open-ended mission to remake the entire Middle East if the President had made his true intentions known up-front.

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http://www.barbaraboxer.com/diary?id=0029

This appeared on dKos:

As most of the political focus is on a series of indictments and charges over leaks and treason as well as nominations for the highest court in the land, we must never let our attention stray from the machinations of those in power. And quite frankly, I am becoming worried about those who wish to further beat the drums of war.

It seems like an eon ago but in 1997 a movie named Wag the Dog got the nation's attention with its theme that concocting a war is one of the most effective methods of distracting public attention from the deficiencies of the president, as well as unifying public support. While the movie is often connected to the Clinton administration and the Lewinsky scandal, it was actually based on a book that specifically made parallels to the George H.W. Bush administration.

With poll numbers plummeting for both the president as well as his "war" in Iraq, you might think that starting another war right now would be both foolhardy in a political as well as financial sense. But desperate times call for desperate measures. Just how close are we to a war with Iran?

http://dailykos.com/story/2005/10/19/14372/445

[LittleClarkie]

1. Nah.

Syria is my bet.

How comforting eh? Multiple choice.

[Kindigger]

2. A preceding terra attack is no longer required then?

Just trying to keep the madness straight...

[LittleClarkie]

4. It doesn't appear so. They keep trying to cooperate

and this administration apparently keeps ignoring that fact and announcing that they are losing patience with Syria.

I believe they will probably try to stitch it to 9/11 as best they can, or at least the wider war on terror.

Kerry's prediction of unending war doesn't sound so far fetched when you listen to this administration sometimes.

[okieinpain]

13. you're damn right, syria is the weakest of the two. and I fear iran

already has the bomb and I'm pretty sure the bushies fear that also.

[Hissyspit]

3. Sure.

[McKenzie]

5. "Playing Brinkmanship with Iran

- or Will this be America's Next War": A documentary currently available on one of the Newsgroups. I can't recall which one, but, if you have Usenet access, and want a copy, PM me and I'll check for you. It might also be floating around on the P2P networks.

The documentary is not sensationalist - it is, however, alarming.

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[Taxloss]

6. Maybe Iran leaked Plame's identity!

Smoking gun! Mushroom cloud!

:tinfoilhat:

[funflower]

7. Or San Francisco...

:scared: :tinfoilhat: :scared: :tinfoilhat:

[AtomicKitten]

8. Hey, that's not funny. I live in SF.

If anything, the BusHitler youth Freepers might do a stealth raid on Haight & Ashbury thinking they're still getting their groove on there.

Nope, my money's on Syria.

[funflower]

11. I used to live there. It's the greatest city on earth!

[AtomicKitten]

15. Maybe ...

but it has the worst drivers of any place I've ever lived.

[funflower]

16. The scary drivers are mostly outside of the city. I agree the Bayshore is

about the worst commute there is.

[Shipwack]

9. Iran, possibly... depending on how much power one faction holds.

It has always been my belief that the Administration was not unified in their reason to go to war with Iraq... Some wanted Bush to be a "war president" and out do his father. Armageddon.

There is a vocal minority of Christians that feel that Jesus will come again to earth and reward the faithful at the end of the world. Therefor, they reason with a child's grasp of theology, if they cause the end of the world, Jesus will come, and they can do the proud dance because they're superior.

"Unfortunately", God is being stubborn. Invading an Arab country did not cause the rest of the Arab states to unite and attack the US, plunging the world into chaos. So, as they see their power dwindling, with a good chance they will not have such power again for a long time, they will try to make a last effort to snatch war from the jaws of (relative) peace.

[radfringe]

10. IraQ exit plan

invade IraN and/or Syria....

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

12. Let's hope there's a new deep throat paying very close attention

to what is being said and planned, who'll be leaking like a sieve very soon if this is the case.

Do you imagine that they are feeling at all paranoid and wondering who they can trust and who they can't be sure of?

[truthisfreedom]

14. i'm truly surprised he hasn't done something already. i wonder if there

are serious fissures in the ranks, and bushco is rudderless.