The Rubicon
Soon to blossom over Teheran if you continue to support Bush.
The biolab claim is only one in a series of claims about terrorists and Weapons of Mass Destruction, many of which later proved false, that were used as justification for the U.S. war on Iraq. They were also used to justify the Bush administration?s demand that within the United States they be allowed to exercise extraordinary and unprecedented power without commensurate accountability.
Someone has to declare a dividing line. I?m doing it. After this, there are three reasons to publicly support Bush, or to insist there must be an excuse for his actions:
1. You?re stupid.
2. You know there?s no excuse, but you?re too dishonest and unpatriotic to say so.
3. You?re bound by solemn oath to make a public show of supporting him (i.e., you?re in the military, and your job requires it).
What scares me is that the same kind of lies, the same kind of rhetoric that we saw in the runup to the war on Iraq we now see aimed at Iran. Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, is an immediate threat, is the world largest sponsor of terrorism, etc. And this time nuclear attacks are in the offering…
And don’t think Bush and co are not nuts enough to use this, or that there will be decent people anywhere in the chain of command who will stop them. This time there’s no Kissinger to warn army commanders against blindly obeying the president’s orders…
In the meantime, imagine if Bush pulled it off and imagine the maelstrom the world would descend into. What better justification for cancelling the 2008 presidential elections. “We can’t change leadership when we’re at war” and all that…
So yeah, if you still support Bush out of your own free will, you are stupid or evil. There is no other choice.