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Iran: If this is true, we as a country are screwed...
I don't know how many of you out there have been catching the news, but the persistent rumors that the U.S. will be preemptively attacking Iran got another boost of credibility today.
All over the world (and in a few blogs), news organizations are reporting that within weeks the Administration will launch a war on a third front with Iran as a target.
It doesn't matter that a full 70% of the American public wants out of Iraq, let alone start another cauldron of bloodshed in yet another country with a military we don't have. It doesn't matter what any of us say about it. It doesn't matter what the U.S. Constitution has to say about it.
War with Iran may very well be the Sword of Damocles hanging over our immediate and long-term future.
I seem to remember making a statement about rogue elephants and what happens to them, ooooooh, sometime before the last election.
If this is true, and if this happens, I suspect that We the People will discover just how much saying "it wasn't me, it was those guys in Washington" is going to protect us.
Following the breaking news about the U.S. preparing for an attack on Iran:
Pentagon 'three-day blitz' for Iran (The Times — London)
Will President Bush Bomb Iran? (The Telegraph — U.K.)
U.S. 'Iran Attack Plans' Are Revealed (BBC News)
Test Marketing (The New Yorker — New York)
10 Indications That the U.S. Is Planning Military Action Against Iran (Pacific News Service — California)
Pentagon Draws 'Three-Day Blitz' Plan for Iran and Study: U.S. Preparing 'Massive' Military Attack Against Iran (Raw Story — U.S.)
Countdown to Midnight in Persia (No Quarter — U.S. Blog Analyzing U.S. Intelligence Agencies and Activities)
Considering War with Iran SOAS (Sic Semper Tyrannis 2007 — U.S. Blog Analyzing U.S. Intelligence and Military)
Post Labor Day Product Roll-Out: War with Iran (Informed Comment Global Affairs — U.S. Group Blog on International Relations)
The President's Escalating War Rhetoric With Iran (Salon/Glen Greenwald — U.S.)
If you're not at least a little bit concerned about the future of the U.S. after reading the above links, than I won't hesitate in calling you a fool.
All over the world (and in a few blogs), news organizations are reporting that within weeks the Administration will launch a war on a third front with Iran as a target.
It doesn't matter that a full 70% of the American public wants out of Iraq, let alone start another cauldron of bloodshed in yet another country with a military we don't have. It doesn't matter what any of us say about it. It doesn't matter what the U.S. Constitution has to say about it.
War with Iran may very well be the Sword of Damocles hanging over our immediate and long-term future.
I seem to remember making a statement about rogue elephants and what happens to them, ooooooh, sometime before the last election.
If this is true, and if this happens, I suspect that We the People will discover just how much saying "it wasn't me, it was those guys in Washington" is going to protect us.
Following the breaking news about the U.S. preparing for an attack on Iran:
Pentagon 'three-day blitz' for Iran (The Times — London)
Will President Bush Bomb Iran? (The Telegraph — U.K.)
U.S. 'Iran Attack Plans' Are Revealed (BBC News)
Test Marketing (The New Yorker — New York)
10 Indications That the U.S. Is Planning Military Action Against Iran (Pacific News Service — California)
Pentagon Draws 'Three-Day Blitz' Plan for Iran and Study: U.S. Preparing 'Massive' Military Attack Against Iran (Raw Story — U.S.)
Countdown to Midnight in Persia (No Quarter — U.S. Blog Analyzing U.S. Intelligence Agencies and Activities)
Considering War with Iran SOAS (Sic Semper Tyrannis 2007 — U.S. Blog Analyzing U.S. Intelligence and Military)
Post Labor Day Product Roll-Out: War with Iran (Informed Comment Global Affairs — U.S. Group Blog on International Relations)
The President's Escalating War Rhetoric With Iran (Salon/Glen Greenwald — U.S.)
If you're not at least a little bit concerned about the future of the U.S. after reading the above links, than I won't hesitate in calling you a fool.
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Many of this biggest war boosters are quick to keep their kids out of the military. War is fought on the backs of the poor in this country and no one cares about their votes. The middle class, however, is quite another matter and that's who the draft would effect. It's not going to happen. There would be a riot.
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I do hope that you are right. Sad though it is that middle class America would only riot over the possibility of its own kids having to die, and only the middle classes rioting would stop the president. So nobody does anything about him causing death and destruction over much of the rest of the planet.
War is fought on the backs of the poor in this country and no one cares about their votes.
It is so sad. I was quite horrified when I read somewhere that your military go into schools to recruit and promise poor kids money to join up - and then keep on ringing them up on their cell phones and things - the UK did away with 'taking the King's shilling' in the nineteenth century! The UK forces are only allowed into schools if there is a job fair or similar - and then only if invited to attend something like that by the Head.
I presume that the electoral college system than gives one man 0.1 of a vote, some other man 3 votes, and a third guy 10 votes means that the votes of the city poor are worth less than the middle classes - and then you see Americans deriding the UK about its class system! You get something similar in the UK - in as much as there are some constituencies that are always going to vote Labour, and others that are always going to vote Conservative - and so the electioneering is always aimed at those which are less predictable. But each constituency has roughly the same number of voters, and each MP has one vote when he gets to Parliament.
(Not that that makes a lot of difference to me as I have no vote in the UK - but it is the system, apart from our own, that I know best. I might be in one of the world's oldest democracies - we celebrated the millenium of our parliament in 1979 - but our voting system is a bit complicated!)