The New Road

Iran

I'm starting to worry that we will actually attack Iran. I know it was the plan after Iraq, but the mounting insurgency, cost and the rising, now majority, opposition to the war halted the Iran plan. But it appears to be back now, with a vengeance. Which is really scary because nothing has changed much with the situation in Iraq. To me that means this new war is simply a way to divert us from our two current wars, both of which are going badly.

What dawned on me yesterday (ok, I'm not that fast) is that there is nothing that we can do to stop it. My guess is that war with Iran would be opposed to somewhere between 60-70% of the American population. About 20-25% of the population are hard right idealogues who long ago eschewed independent thought and always give anyone on the right a pass on anything. Those people would be hard pressed to find Iran on a map anyway. 5% will give Bush the benefit of the doubt. And the rest will see the disastrous war in Iraq and the pathetic campaign in Afghanistan and, very rightly, oppose this new war.

Unfortunately though, the percents and polls won't matter. Clearly Bush is intent on more war. (War being a fundamentalists answer to any question.) There aren't enough Democrats in Congress to stop him. And the Republicans are too blinded by money and scandal and will fall in line like sheep.

We already see them spewing the same garbage they did before the Iraq war. It's as if they are reading from exactly the same script where the 'q' has been replaced with an 'n'. Weapons of mass destruction... Mushroom clouds... Destruction of Isreal... Genocide... Axis of evil... Blahdy, Blahdy, blah... Whatever. Still no proof. Still no actual intelligence. Still lying about the intelligence that got us into Iraq. No, the French, British and Germans did not agree with our intelligence. And yes, the Abramoff scandal is only about Republicans.

We couldn't stop it then. We can't stop it now. What the hell can we do? The elections are at the end of the year and Bush could have easily invaded Iran by then. It's very depressing.

Oh, yeah, and then there is the most recent Osama statement where he says directly that Al Qaida is planning a fresh attack on the United States. You see, he can do that becuase he isn't spending a single nickel fighting us in Iraq. Weren't we supposed to get him dead or alive? Oh, yeah, I remember, it wasn't Osama who attacked us on 9/11 it was Saddam. Or was it Hugo Chavez? Oh, wait, no, it was the new president of Iran.

Wake me up when we are going to get Osama bin Laden please. He actually did attack us. This other stuff is just ridiculous noise.