Here we go again. Congress recently voted through the formal accusation that Iran is committing acts of war against the US, and last week the White House announced moves to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation. Anyone who doubted Washington’s determination to attack Tehran need doubt no longer. Read this bit slowly: the terrorist designation allows the Cheney administration to launch an attack on Tehran without further Congressional approval. Looks like my prediction back in January 2006 is in more danger than ever of being realised:
“…one of the standard objections to the likelihood of an attack on Iran is that it will put American troops in Iraq in grave peril. If you make that objection, I have only one thing to say to you: Wake the hell up. Of course it will put American troops in Iraq in grave peril. A great many of them will probably be killed. But — and please try as earnestly as you can to get this — the administration is counting on exactly that happening…Imagine that 500, or a thousand, or even several thousand, American soldiers are killed in a single engagement, or over several days or a week. What do you think would happen?
The administration would immediately blame “Iranian interference” and “Iranian meddling.” They do that now. Every major media outlet would repeat the charge; almost no one would question it. Pictures of the slaughtered Americans would be played on television 24 hours a day. The outrage would grow by the minute. Within a day, and probably within hours, certain parties would be calling for nuclear weapons to be dropped on Tehran. Almost everyone would be baying for blood, and for the blood of Iran in particular.
No one, and certainly no prominent politician, would dare to remind Americans that we have no right to be in Iraq in the first place. They won’t say that now. Who would point it out after 800 Americans have been killed? And what Democrat would dare to oppose the tide, especially with a presidential election looming? Not one. Everyone with a national voice would be demanding the destruction of the current regime in Iran. No one would oppose such a course.”
I urge you to follow the links above and read in full the material referenced. It is sobering stuff, to say the least. But back here on Mud Island, the lunatics with the loaded gun are taking it all rather well. Neither Decent nor Left, Washington’s British propagandists merely pass on the WaPo report at face value, to the usual chorus of cheers from the comments box. The rhetoric they have employed over the past five years can no longer mask their slavish devotion to the Administration, no matter how apocalyptic the consequences.
