Norquist: Bush’s Advisers Telling Him ‘Invade Iran. Then Everyone Will See How Smart We Are’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/

Norquist: Bush’s Advisers Telling Him ‘Invade Iran. Then Everyone Will See How Smart We Are’

In this month’s issue of Vanity Fair, Craig Unger writes that the same neoconservative advisers who advocated for the Iraq war are now recycling the same tactics to push for the bombing of Iran. Unger reports that not all of Bush’s key conservative allies are pleased with the administration’s course on Iran:

“Everything the advocates of war said would happen hasn’t happened,” says the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, an influential conservative who backed the Iraq invasion. “And all the things the critics said would happen have happened. are effectively saying, ‘Invade Iran. Then everyone will see how smart we are.’ But after you’ve lost x number of times at the roulette wheel, do you double-down?”

For example, Richard Perle, a former Bush administration official, has said, “I have very little doubt” that Bush would order “necessary military action” against Iran. “Make no mistake, President Bush will need to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities before leaving office,” wrote American Enterprise Institute analyst Joshua Muravchik.

Two other important points from the Unger article:

1) Retired Defense Intelligence official Patrick Lang told Unger that Bush has ordered StratCom — the military command responsible for “nuclear weapons, missile defense and protection against weapons of mass destruction” — to draw up plans for a “massive strike against Iran.” Lang noted that the shift away from Central Command “to StratCom indicates they are talking about a really punishing air-force and naval air attack .”

2) Former CIA officer Phillip Giraldi said, “I’ve heard from sources at the Pentagon that their impression is that the White House has made a decision that war is going to happen.”

[nebenaube]

1. that's right

Let's back them farther into a corner and see if they react! :sarcasm:

[wake.up.america]

2. These guys are sick.

[northernsoul]

3. Sounds like even Norquist wants to get off the crazy train now!

I know this comment is superfluous, but I gotta say it: These people are fucking nuts!

[leveymg]

4. This is breaching the dangerously fine line between psyops and reality.

When people start believing their own propaganda, watch out.

Time for more cold branch water to be thrown on this, I think.

[Kikosexy2]

5. BushCo...

is treading on thin ice...DON'T DO IT!! And Israel needs to stop it's "Holocaust" horsesh*t rants too...If Israel wants to attack Iran, then leave us non-Jews and non-Middle Easterners out of it!! And don't play the Holocaust victim either...sh*t we gave you Israelis nukes..what more do they want?...fight your own battle...dammit!

[peacetalksforall]

9. You have a point - several, in fact.. If we are asking war lovers to send

their own kids, then we should ask pro-Iraeli war pushers to send their own kids. There is nothing in this for mere citizen peace and justice seekers. This is all for war manufacturers and perpetrators of perpetual war and earth resource extractor-hoarder-controllers. Send their kids. Starting with Jenna, Barbara, and all the children of war lovers.

I've had it THE INNOCENT PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST DO NOT DESERVE TO BE INVADED AND KILLED BY FOOLS.

[Kikosexy2]

10. I whole-

heartedly agree with you...any of us working class average citizens benefiting from all this plundering and pillaging?...don't think so when were paying up the ass for gas and other resources...ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! TIME TO END THIS MADNESS!!!

[Frustratedlady]

6. Why do they say that "Bush will NEED to bomb Iran's nuclear

facilities before leaving office?" I've missed something, apparently, as I can't see why he needs to do that. I could see where he would do it to leave a bigger mess than he already has slated for the next president. Is Iran also a personal vendetta?

[Kikosexy2]

7. Because...

he's the war preznut and has to save his legacy...whatever there is left to save...if any...WORST PREZNUT EVER!

[KansDem]

8. "Then Everyone Will See How Smart We Are"

Yeah, invade Iran and they'll see their collective IQs rise up to that of a decaying turnip.

And we all know what happens to rotten turnips...