See you in Tehran

The neocons don't give a shit if our military is stretched too thin. They want to start bombing Iran.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1724473,00.html

One of the most important paragraphs in this entire article, though, is hidden halfway through:

"The US plans to present the security council with evidence that Iran is designing a crude nuclear bomb, like the one dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. The evidence will be in the form of blueprints that the US said were found on a laptop belonging to an Iranian nuclear engineer, and obtained by the CIA in 2004. However, any such presentation will bring back memories of a similar briefing in February 2003 in which Colin Powell, then US secretary of state, laid out evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which proved not to exist."

With the Iraq war and the fabricated pre-war intel, the bushies have annihilated any global credibility we might have had to use against Iran (which may indeed pose a credible threat). In other words, by lying to the world about the reasons for invading Iraq, the administration has effectively neutered us. We're probably not going to be ABLE to deal with any other real threats that arise, i.e. we are now less secure than we were before the Iraq war.

One of the other things this article touches on is John Bolton's unreasoning stubbornness about military action with regard to Iran. The fucker just won't listen to reason. Everyone mentioned in the article, the CIA, the British, they think Bolton's just shit nuts. But like with the invasion of Iraq, anyone in Bolton's circle just doesn't want to hear anything except what they want to hear. This is oh-so-reminiscent of the Richard Clark story about Bush ordering him to find a connection between Iraq and Al-Qaida. I'm also reminded of Rummy's various claims of "we know where the WMD's are." Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rove, the lot of them, they just deny reality and speak as though their alternate reality, in which they can do anything they goddamn well please, is the only one that exists.

Mr. Bolton, there is a civil war going on in Iraq. Thousands and thousands of Muslims worldwide just spent the last few weeks rioting because of a few cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. Relations with the UN are already strained as it is. Do you really think an airstrike is going to help matters at this point? Or should we attack North Korea to top of the axis of stupid military actions?

Fuckin' tard.