Why Bush will Choose War Against Iran

[Imagevision]

Like many people, I find it extremely difficult to believe that President Bush could actually do anything so crazy as to launch a military attack against Iran, and that even if he wanted to, the Congress, the Pentagon, and the American public would ever countenance such action. But

Quickly followed by a period of rapidly escalating threats of military action, during which international and domestic opposition to American policy will increase dramatically, making Bush’s choices increasingly more painful and difficult in every respect;

A judgment by Bush that the immediate risks and costs of preemptive military action against Iran are, in the final analysis, less formidable than the risks and costs of tolerating Iranian nuclear possession --- and the personal and national humiliation that would result from passive acceptance of that outcome.

Sometime before the end of his term, a massive air military attack on a wide range of carefully selected targets in Iran, in partnership with Israel, and against the advice of many of his advisers --- justified by the conviction that a nuclear Iran would pose an intolerable threat to American national security, firm in his faith that God agrees with him on that point, and certain that history will eventually recognize and properly appreciate his courageous and visionary leadership.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14694.htm

[illinoisprogressive]

1. I heard tonight that Bush and Cheney want to go out with

a war with Iran. They think it will be thier blaze of glory. thier ode to the world that they saved America and Isreal from the Muslim threats.
Someone should call 41 and tell him to get his buddies together and shove 43 and Cheney in a closet until Jan 09 and just try to clean up his kid's mess.

[sakabatou]

2. The stupid! It burns!

[Old and In the Way]

3. Electing a puppet for Big Oil has hurt our national security interests.

Gore would have focused on a national energy strategy that weaned us off ME oil while creating meaningful jobs developing a new infrastructural for a post-peak oil world. The $2TT devoted to Iraq and the military build-up could have been better invested in our own economy, priming the pump with investments in other energy producing technologies. Instead, our energy security is worse today than it was 6 years ago....but Big Oil isn't complaining.

[Imagevision]

5. Bush & Cheney first and foremost are Oilmen, this job simply requires more man power

Iraq, if Bush wins, this could be the largest Oil score ever for the Bush clan and certainly Poppy would agree that use of the US. military to pull it off was ingenious. Viva Zapata...

[The Count]

4. For a brief second, after 911, I thought they won't be as crazy as to attack Iraq

Thresholds are made to be broken.