Mark your calendars, the Iranapalooza approaches!
The full-on bloodthirsty pro-Iranian war drumbeats picked up noticeably in volume today. Watch as the chickenhawk drumbeats get louder and louder.
What planet do these people live on? The current invasion plan involves, get this, 25,000 marines in a ship off the coast of Iran. This will, according the plan, lead to a popular uprising amongst the people of Iran because they love our 25,000 dudes in a boat. Or something. Then, the post-invasion plan says we can hold a country more than twice the size of Iraq with a bit over 1/3rd the number of troops we have in Iraq.
Oh, and the plan also considers acceptable the preemptive use of tactical nuclear strikes.
Seymour Hersh, of course, has been on this story from the beginning. I wonder if he thinks he should have been named Cassandra?
There is no doubt that Our Dear Leader and his despotic regime of neocon fantasists, aided and abetted by the sycophantic lap dogs of the right wing echo chamber of course, are trying to lead us in the direction of an Iranian war. Listen to the news; do you ever see a single piece showing anything good in Iran? It’s like the war on drugs in that way.
I sincerely hope and actually do believe that this sturm und drang will turn into nothing in the sands of time. I highly doubt we are going to invade Iran. Besides the impossibility of it all, I refuse to believe that we are such sheeple led by such evil. Also, it reeks of a domestic electioneering ploy.
I predict this will be highly analogous to the Reagan/Nicauragua situation in the 80s where the right was screaming for invasion to get rid of the evil, evil socialist Noriega and the lefties were certain we were heading towards Vietnam part 2. The difference, of course, was that back then we had adult morons in the administration rather than childish morons, and children through tantrums when they don’t get what they want. Don’t they, Little Boots?
Update: Atrios totally copies me one day later. Of course, he’s limited to a maximum of 50 words per post, so I’ve not only got him on timeliness, I’ve got him on length. Booya! That Hersh beats us means noth… hey! Look over there! A beautiful butterfly!