Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Will someone buy Bush a set of tin soldiers to play with?

I have this weird feeling that he didn't get to play soldier when he was a little boy, and so now he's making up for lost time, but since he's all grown up he needs to play with soldiers his size.

The problem is that he doesn't seem to realize that he's literally playing with people's lives here.

From a Raw Story article, this scary tidbit:
Last month, a national security source told The London Times that the Pentagon has "drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days."

According to the paper, a Washington source said the "temperature was rising" to launch an Iranian attack inside the Bush administration. This information comes on the heels of reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency last week that cited "significant cooperation" with Iran over its nuclear program, including the slowing of uranium enrichment.

The most recent report by the nuclear watchdog agency, however, said that Iran was three to eight years away from building a bomb.
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ABC notes that there appear to be few targets such a weapon would be useful for in Iraq. It could be used on Taliban or Qaeda targets in Pakistan caves, though there'd be scant need for a stealth bomber.

"You'd use it on Natanz," John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org told ABC, referring to a site inside Iran. "And you'd use it on a stealth bomber because you want it to be a surprise. And you put in an emergency funding request because you want to bomb quickly."

"It's kind of strange," Pike said. "It sends a signal that you are preparing to bomb Iran, and if you were actually going to bomb Iran I wouldn't think you would want to announce it like that."
Is he really going to do this? Are the Democrats in Congress really going to let him get away with this?

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