Why Iran will be bombed

[salinen]

2 reasons. The first, because we are looking to Washington to refuse this action. Politicians are not in the business of stopping Imperialistic tendancies, protestors are.

Secondly, the executive branch has successfully grabed ultimate power. They did this so the executive branch has no one to answer to. Senators and Congresspeople are beholdant to their districts and states. By eliminating that connection, the executive branch has no rival. They do whatever the fuck they want for whatever reason they want.

Welcome to Totalitarianism. How's the view?

[Drum]

1. The view is awfully bad from way down here

amongst the citizenry. But I'm hearing about clear sunny skies on Capitol Hill.

Sigh.

[unblock]

2. it's worse than that. more war is their only remaining political hope.

they are becoming "injured and cornered" now that the current wars are unpopular and their domestic policy of corruption and embezzlement is becoming more widely understood.

injured and cornered creatures do viscious and desperate things. since victory in iraq is not in the immediate offing, only a shift of attention to a new war offers the banana republicans a glimmer of hope of winning in november.

[salinen]

4. Right

They are doomed to use the strategy that gained them power to begin with. Lying, coruption, theft, murder, and much worse.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Erect bogeyman. Wave flag. Start war. Never fails.

Accuse all those who dissent of being "unpatriotic", "not supporting the troops"(aka cannon-fodder), "hating America".
Also, show video game "smart" bombs accurately destroying buildings and tanks, but decline to show shredded bodies.
Follow with a rousing rendition of "God Bless America".

[salinen]

5. predictable

[motocicleta]

6. I feel that this one is a little different

In Iraq, the real motive was rather hard to discern. Oil? I suppose. Revenge? Possibly. War incumbents always win? Probably. It certainly wasn't WMDs, but nobody really seemed to care.

But in Iran, the government is establishing an oil bourse to start trading in euros. I'm no economist, but I gather that that is bad news for US currency and US oil companies. The administration is being pushed into this, probably not at all reluctantly because of the other ideas on this thread, by the financial interests who own them.

Methinks it will take a lot more protesting than occurred before Iraq, which is of course a very real possibility. Which makes me think they will start the aggression much more surreptitiously. Much easier to continue aggression in the face of opposition than to start it.

I wish I had some good point to tack on at the end. Right now, I'm just trying to tell as many people as possible about this oil bourse thing, hoping the public will go into the Iran debate more open-eyed than Iraq.