..is this Congress, too, terrified of crossing the War Party? ('paleo' Pat Buchanan)

[laststeamtrain]

Is Bombing Iran Bush's Call?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

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"The same neocon ideologues behind the Iraq war have been using the same tactics – alliances with shady exiles, dubious intelligence on WMD – to push for the bombing of Iran. As President Bush ups the pressure on Tehran, is he planning to double his Middle East bet?"

Ex-Israeli Prime Minister "Bibi" Netanyahu has told CNN: "Iran is Germany, and it's 1938. Except that this Nazi regime that is in Iran ... wants to dominate the world, annihilate the Jews, but also annihilate America."

More ominous than the hawk-talk is Unger's report that "Bush has directed StratCom (U.S. Strategic Command) to draw up plans for a massive strike against Iran at a time when CentCom has had its hands full overseeing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Shifting to StratCom indicates that they are talking about a really punishing air force and naval air attack (on Iran)." So says retired Col. Patrick Lang, formerly of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

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So, will the neocons get their way and their new war – on Iran?

Or will Congress follow the guidance of Jefferson: "In questions of powers, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

Those member of Congress today apologizing for having voted Bush a blank check for war on Iraq might better tell Bush, by joint resolution, that he has no blank check for a war on Iran.

Or is this Congress, too, terrified of crossing the War Party?

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BUC20070213&articleId=4780
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What a world...when PJB makes more sense than ________(fill in the name of your least favorite DEM hawk). Mine would be...oops, out of space...

[ForFuxakes]

1. Welcome to the world of the "Matrix"

The longer this neocon nightmare continues, the more I feel like Neo trapped in a world that does not feel right. I can take the blue pill and bury my head in the sand and go about my life, or thake the red pill and see how far the rabbit hole goes...

[laststeamtrain]

2. I've never seen The Matrix. Don't have any plans to either.

I read a lot of Phillip K. Dick in the '70s. People have mentioned similarities.

Things have changed so much over the years, new alignments, shifting ground. Like the neocons going from 'Scoop Jackson' Democrats to Reagan Republicans.

Welcome to DU.

[ForFuxakes]

3. Thanks for the welcome...

It is a good movie if you are ever bored with nothing to do though...IMHO

[tom_paine]

4. Something is very wrong when Pat Buchanan makes this much sense

Say what you will about old Pat: bully, ideologue, anti-Semite, but damn it, he's his own person with his own damned views and he isn't drinking the Kool-Aid along with the rest of 'em.

Little Boots Bushler and his Busheviks are so awful, so mean and low and immoral and UnAmerican, they make Pat Buchanan seem like a sterling man of character.