Fool Them Once...

What is driving the crisis between the Bush administration and Iran and ratcheting up the rhetoric?

If the Supreme Jurisprudent of theocratic Iran has given a fatwa against nukes, if the president of the country has renounced them and called for others to do so, if the International Atomic Energy Agency has found no evidence of a military nuclear weapons program, and if Iran is at least 10 years from having a bomb even if it is trying to get one, then why is there a diplomatic crisis around this issue between the United States and Iran in 2006?

The answer is that the Iranian nuclear issue is déjà vu all over again. As it did with regard to the Baath regime in Iraq, the militarily aggressive Bush administration wants to overthrow the government in Tehran.

Read more from Juan Cole here.


Bush charged that "some of the most powerful IEDs we are seeing in Iraq today include components that came from Iran."
I listened to the sound bite of that sentence today. It was so eerily similar in tone and delivery to his assertion in his State of the Union address that Iraq tried to buy uranium ore in Africa it made me cringe! He tries desperately to instill fear but it screams to me "LIE". It did then. It does now. There's something in the way he talks...some kind of fake incredulousness when he does it that screams at me. The bites, side by side, would be very telling. When I have some time, I'll try to find both and post them.

UPDATE: Top U.S. Military Official: No Evidence of Iran Involvement in Iraq posted by Cyndy | link | | |
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