Here We Go Again

[FightingIrish]

When I watched the television coverage of the first air strikes on Baghdad in March of 2003, I was horrified and dismayed. Even though I had fought for months against this invasion, it still seemed to me that were going after a monster. The idea that we were killing innocent people did not really sink in until we saw the first bodies in the rubble. The Bush administration had done such a good job of personalizing the war that it really did seem for a moment that our objective was to take out an evil dictator.

The pattern is unfolding again with Iran. The non-stop Ahmadinejadamania has been staged for one purpose, to condition us to hate a symbol of the country our government wants to invade. Even though he is not the real ruler of Iran, his careless rhetoric has made him the likely target for the transference of our collective distrust of a people we scarcely understand. At he same time the Bush administration is demonizing the man, they are insuring that his popularity in Iran will keep him exactly where he is until he has served our purpose.

Although the Neocon agenda is years behind schedule, it is moving forward again with monotonous precision. We are already seeing the seemingly innocuous and hollow resolutions in Congress that will be the precursors to unlawful military action. Later we will learn that behind the charade of patient diplomacy the war machine was already gaining unstoppable momentum. We couldn’t let the U.N. inspectors do their job in Iraq because the hot weather was approaching and our soldiers were getting antsy. Now the real urgency is the likelihood of a Democratic administration that will want nothing to do with bush’s bloody legacy and the dreams of Neocon madmen. Once our troops are thrown into the new meat grinder however, any talk of peace will again be treason. Maybe we will get used to the repeated pattern of invasion and occupation that the people of Nazi Germany passively accepted as their destiny.

[rusty quoin]

1. There is a big difference between 2003 and now.

Most people aren't buying it. You can't fool all the people all the time, only faux news viewers.

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. What difference does it make that people aren't

buying into it? They (this evil criminal admin) does whatever it wants. Show me one instance that they haven't gotten everything they wanted.....other than the privatization of SS.

[driver8]

5. That's exactly what I was thinking. This administration does what it

wants and does not listen to the public.

If they want to attack Iran, they will.

There is nothing that anyone can do that will stop them.

[Breeze54]

7. And you can be sure that

the Dems won't stop him. Wait! They didn't!

[Hydra]

6. Who's not buying it?

The events at Columbia U. speak for themselves.

[peacetalksforall]

2. The vote this morning by Dems was a dishonor to humanity.

Into hell with war lovers telling us to hate and kill.

[Bitwit1234]

3. I have such a sick feeling in my stomach and over all depression

I feel as if something terrible is going to happen. And this is not the first time. I hope I am just tired...

[ProfessorPlum]

8. What they will do is shock us with another big disaster

and then start their war.

Everyone: read Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine". It is the one book that has made any sense to me in years.