Neoconservatives Predict The Apocalypse Starts Tomorrow

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Neoconservatives Predict The Apocalypse Starts Tomorrow



For months, neoconservatives have been pushing for regime change in Iran. In their latest effort to beat the war drums and undermine diplomacy, they are attaching great significance to August 22 – the date Iran said it would respond to an incentives package from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.

August 22 is a day “some Shiite sects believe…could correspond to the end of the world.” That’s enough for neoconservatives to conclude Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have “chosen to launch the apocalypse” tomorrow.

Here’s a look at the rhetoric being pushed by neocons to scare the American people into supporting military action:

continued at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/21/iran-apocalypse/