there will be no real opposition to a Bush Administration attack on Iran.

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1225&Itemid=135%20

As you may know -- unless you rely on the corporate media for your news, of course -- yesterday the U.S. Senate unanimously declared that Iran was committing acts of war against the United States: a 97-0 vote to give George W. Bush a clear and unmistakable casus belli for attacking Iran whenever Dick Cheney tells him to.

The bipartisan Senate resolution – the brainchild (or rather the bilechild) of Fightin' Joe Lieberman – affirmed as official fact all of the specious, unproven, ever-changing allegations of direct Iranian involvement in attacks on the American forces now occupying Iraq. The Senators appear to have relied heavily on the recent New York Times story by Michael Gordon that stovepiped unchallenged Pentagon spin directly onto the paper's front page. As Firedoglake points out, John McCain cited the heavily criticized story on the Senate floor as he cast his vote.

It goes without saying that all of this is a nightmarish replay of the run-up to the war of aggression against Iraq: The NYT funneling false flag stories from Bush insiders. Warmongers citing the NYT stories as "proof" justifying any and all action to "defend the Homeland." Credulous and craven Democratic politicians swallowing the Bush line hook and sinker.

To be sure, stout-hearted Dem tribunes like Dick Durbin insisted that their support for declaring that Iran is "committing acts of war" against the United States should not be taken as an "authorization of military action." This is shaky-knees mendacity at its finest. Having officially affirmed that Iran is waging war on American forces, how, pray tell, can you then deny the president when he asks (if he asks) for authorization to "defend our troops?" Answer: you can't. And you know it.

This vote is the clearest signal yet that there will be no real opposition to a Bush Administration attack on Iran. This is yet another blank check from these slavish, ignorant goons; Bush can cash it anytime. This is, in fact, the post-surge "Plan B" that's been mooted lately in the Beltway. As you recall, there was much throwing about of brains on the subject of reviving the "Iraq Study Group" plan when the "surge" (or to call it by its right name, the "punitive escalation") inevitably fails. Bush put the kibosh on that this week ("Him not gonna do nothin' that Daddy's friends tell him to do! Him a big boy, him the decider!"), but that doesn't mean there isn't a fall-back position – or rather, a spring-forward position: an attack on Iran, to rally the nation behind the "war leader" and reshuffle the deck in Iraq.

[leftchick]

1. Sad but true

duplicitous MFers!

[msongs]

2. there doesn't seem to be real opposition to bush at all now nt

[madeline_con]

3. Where are they going to get troops?

Are they going to pull them out of their ass, like they do their policies?

[scarletwoman]

4. They don't need troops, this is going to be an arial bombardment of 1000's of "targets".

[madeline_con]

5. Oh, right, like shock and awe.

No casualties, hailed as liberators.

Wait, haven't we seen this before?

[scarletwoman]

6. Yes. They're not done yet with their Middle East "regime change" program. (nt)

[AllyCat]

14. And will probably only cost a couple million dollars too.

:eyes:

[lumberjack_jeff]

17. It'll be over in weeks, not months.

Actually, the risk is that it'll all be over in hours. :nuke:

[Jesse Hemingway]

16. Not so fast

Iran has known they have been the real target since the sunnis attacked us on 9/11 and the first WTC bombing in 1993 and the USS cole. Iran has been set up since 11/24/1989 i would suspect that there is plenty of fight left in hezbollah I just pity the burnt out U.S. military having to deal with them because Iran will have something to fight for. Remember how effective was shock an Awe?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

11. They weren't concerned with the "unknown unknowns" concerning Iraq.

You really thing they worry about troop levels?

They BELIEVE the troops necessary will be provided. Why shouldn't they? Even one of my favorite Dems suggested the burden must be spread via conscription (and I acknowledge he did it to make the big money 'pay', too,...BUT).

Trust me, with this cabal,...troop level is of no concern. They have ultimate access over 75 million plus young men and women if necessary. It's just a matter of timing, marketing and necessity.

[Maraya1969]

7. I thought the senate has not reconvened yet?????

How could they come back on a Friday?

[seemslikeadream]

10. This is from Thursday, 12 July 2007

[bellasgrams]

8. If the US bombs another country

we are in deep do-do. We better just leave the US because they will come after us. Anyone and everyone. When I look at the young ones in my family it really worries me what they may have to go thru in their lives.

[mitchum]

9. But...but...but...they're keeping their powder dry!

tools

[Sarah Ibarruri]

12. What the F*** are the Democrats in the Congress doing? nt

[chknltl]

13. Doesn't China and Russia have heavy investment into Iran's oil?

If the world 'knows', (strongly suspects due to a hell of a lot of evidence), that bush invaded Iraq with Iraqi Oil as the prime motivator, won't everyone think that Iranian oil is bush's prime motivator again? I wonder what Russia and China are gonna think about this??? Maybe Iran, Russia and China will just tell bush to take the damned oil in order to prevent a potential WWIII.....
Meanwhile back at Britney Craig and Anna Nicole Vitter and Thank God nobody is talking so loudly about impeachment around here lately, (sorry gang, chknltl is no master of sarcasm)

Let's not mince words: Iraq is being squeezed like a big zit. Millions of refugees, perhaps over a million of it's citizens are dead, it's lands poisoned with depleted uranium, as are much of it's population, torture camps, little to no electric, water and sewage services, no jobs, little to no hope, daily suicide bombings, and etc. etc. GENOCIDE! oh and lest I forget to add: LITTLE TO NO HOPE FROM THE VERY ONES WHO ACTUALLY COULD STOP THE MADNESS: THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA!!!

Iran is worried it may face a similar fate. If we here in DU can see it coming how do you suppose the Iranians must feel being stuck on GROUND ZERO with a big target painted on their cities? I suspect Iran courts Russia and China deliberately in order to have some protection from the perps of Iraq's nightmare. This could get FAR uglier than we would even imagine. The smoking gun could indeed start out as a mushroom cloud, in Tehran!

Deep inside me, I feel the ONLY way to stop this "dance macabre" is with a People's Revolt. WE THE PEOPLE can yet force the impeachment issue...the internet is the key! OR I suppose we can just sit around and use our great "DU Intellect" to tell ourselves such a thing is impossible, impractical and just a distraction from getting important stuff done like debating how many minutes of peering through a crack in a bathroom stall constitutes lewd behavior...karl rove must be laughing his ass off at us as he is heading out on vacation to someplace safe. I wonder if bush is going to install an anti missile battery around Washington DC soon...

yeah, the irony of my chosen name is not lost on me

[NMDemDist2]

15. this is one of the many times I wish I could nominate a single post

:cry:

[Solly Mack]

18. I tend to agree

That Selection 2000 stood should have been a give-away that anything goes no matter how illegal or disastrous or destructive or criminal...alas...hope springs eternal for many (even as it drowns them)