KRUGMAN: Scary Movie 2 - With CHENEY Calling The Shots

[kpete]

PAUL KRUGMAN: Scary Movie 2

Attacking Iran would be a catastrophic mistake, even if all the allegations now being made about Iranian actions in Iraq are true.

But it wouldn’t be the first catastrophic mistake this administration has made, and there are indications that, at the very least, a powerful faction in the administration is spoiling for a fight.

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But you have to wonder about the other stuff. Why would the Pentagon put someone who got everything wrong on Iraq in charge of intelligence on Iran? Why wasn’t any official willing to take personal responsibility for the reliability of alleged evidence of Iranian mischief, as opposed to being an anonymous source? If the evidence is solid enough to bear close scrutiny, why were all cameras and recording devices, including cellphones, banned from yesterday’s Baghdad briefing?

It’s still hard to believe that they’re really planning to attack Iran, when it’s so obvious that another war would be a recipe for even bigger disaster. But remember who’s calling the shots: Dick Cheney thinks we’ve had “enormous successes” in Iraq.

more at:
http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/02/paul-krugman-scary-movie-2.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. needs kicked and rec'd. n/t

[LSK]

2. K&R

[truedelphi]

3. I guess Krugman just doesn't get it:

We meant to bring democracy to Iraq (never mind that it was the corporatist version of democracy) and now we are bringing the hope of democracy to Iraq.

And we will bring the hope of a very radioactive democracy to Iran. YUM!

[Straight Shooter]

4. I'm very worried about the dovetailing of the Libby trial with the talk of war against Iran.

Remember when Lamont beat Joe, and the bush administration blew a very carefully-crafted investigation of a potential terrorism plot in England (the planes).

I really believe bush is waiting, with Iran as the ace up his sleeve, to blow any story about Cheney off the news and replace it with the bigger story of air strikes on Iran.

So stupid, so incredibly stupid. We don't even know what we'll be striking. We don't even know if the targets are valid targets.

[upi402]

5. liquored-up lawyer shooters who love too much

need to take a break.

They will bomb if they can wriggle their way to it, but have no troops and equipment and funds and ad infinitum