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Iran, the target for the next Bush preemptive attack; Congress remains
in a state of mental paralysis

By Michael Payne
Online Journal Contributing Writer


Mar 5, 2007, 02:00


Last Nov. 7, the American electorate stated in the clearest terms that
“enough is enough, we want change and we want it now.”

Bush and Cheney not only have ignored that loud and powerful voice but
they now have even more ambitious plans for dominating the Middle
East.

The new Democratic majority is still searching for its identity
and is feverishly trying to pass non-binding resolutions.

It stands
the chance of being blindsided by a preemptive attack on Iran.

Iran is now directly in the crosshairs of this war machine, and this
Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, cannot seem to address this
potential disaster, even when the future of America and the entire
world is at stake. They did not have the foresight to prevent the
first Iraq debacle and they are now on course to make the same
mistakes again relative to Iran. Let there be no doubt that the
American people now, after almost four years of enduring a
catastrophic foreign policy, want to bring an end to this incompetence
and madness.

The GOP in Congress has now begun the process of committing political
suicide in the 2008 elections. This gang of completely tone-deaf
Republicans, which the American electorate chastised in the November
2006 elections, has learned not one single lesson from the beating
that was administered to them. Instead of listening, absorbing how the
vast majority of Americans now feel about the direction America has
taken and their anger over the insane Iraq war, they have decided to
yet again to “stay the course “ and go down with the decider-in-chief.
In doing so, these thickheaded disciples of war face political suicide
in 2008 when many GOP senators and representatives come up for re-
election. The American electorate will be waiting, ready to administer
another well-deserved beating. These GOP lemmings are ready to go over
the Iraq cliff following their delusional drum major.

Each day I read more and more articles in which knowledgeable Middle
East journalists and analysts are predicting that this administration
is poised to attack Iran in the very near future. This unimaginable,
unthinkable event, if it happens, will: 1. Ignite a massive Middle
East conflagration and 2. Congress will then have no choice whatsoever
but to initiate impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush, for
certain, and quite possibly against the de facto president of the
United States, ***** Cheney.

Cheney, the puppeteer-in-chief, and Bush the puppet decider continue
to thumb their noses at the entire nation, which they no longer serve
but are hell-bent on dominating. They now have most clearly stated
that they will not only continue to stay the course but that they will
escalate it as they see fit, no matter what the Congress or the
American people desire. Cheney has said that they will not be stopped.

As they see Iraq completely coming apart, and our military slowly, but
surely, being decimated by the never-ending deployments and re-
deployments, Bush & Co. are showing signs of panic. Their dreams and
plans of controlling the rich resources of the Middle East are now in
a state of disarray and extreme danger of totally failing.

The virus
of the Vietnam experience has now infected their Iraq adventure and
so, in a repetition of history, they will not only stay the course,
but they will up the ante. These reckless, oil-thirsty gamblers are
totally jeopardizing the future of the entire Middle East, the United
States and, yes, the entire world.

As we know, when a powerful animal is mortally wounded and cornered,
it becomes extremely dangerous.

And so this totally incompetent, but
now decidedly wounded, cabal of neocons sets it sights on Iran, the
next Saddam-like bogeyman, the next obvious target for the Bush
doctrine of preemptive war.

We are now watching the Bush & Co.
propaganda machine of misinformation revving up, fabricating the same
type of reasons for attacking Iran that they used to justify the
attack on Iraq.

They are trying to plant the same insidious seeds into
the mind of America that they planted prior to the invasion and
occupation in Iraq.

We are now continually hearing all about Iran’s
plans to develop WMD, i.e., nuclear weapons, their involvement in
furnishing weapons to the Iraq insurgency, and of their goal to
destroy Israel.

And so, “we must prepare to strike Iran before they
strike us. We have to fight them over there so that we do not have to
fight them here.”

Can the 30 percent of Americans that still support
Bush & Cheney, those we refer to as “sheeple,” continue to feed at the
trough of slime, lies and smokescreens?

This is déjà vu all over again as Bush & Co. are on course to repeat
history.

They will repeat history as Captain G.W. Bush of the modern-
day SS Titanic steers this nation directly into the field of icebergs
and brazenly states, “Full speed ahead, damn the icebergs, damn the
opinions of the American electorate and the entire world,” as he stays
the course, escalates it and forces America and the world into a
disaster of the worst magnitude.

It now appears with each passing day that an attack on Iran, while
unfathomable to the 70 percent or so of Americans who no longer
support Bush in any way, could take place in the next month or two.
Already positioned in the Persian Gulf is the U.S. aircraft carrier
group, the Dwight D. Eisenhower, while a second battle group, the John
C. Stennis, has just arrived. Newsweek reports that a third carrier
group will soon leave for that region. Just recently Bush nominated
Admiral William J. Fallon for the position of commander of U.S. Middle
East forces. Fallon, an expert in Naval air and amphibious operations,
was initially a strange choice to lead a ground war, but now we
understand his entry upon the scene completely.

All the pieces are
rapidly being put into place.

Iran is clearly in the crosshairs.

If that catastrophic preemptive event happens, then I predict that the
American people will completely erupt, the slow-moving turtle-like
Democratic majority will finally say, “Enough is enough,” the lemming-
like Republicans will completely cave in, and, without a doubt,
impeachment proceedings will be initiated for Bush. As the Middle East
then explodes into a hellfire, there will be no more time to initiate
futile debates, and political maneuvering will end when America and
Congress will act and act quickly. Impeachment proceedings will be
brought against Bush and, hopefully, a group of Republican senators
will head for the White House to give this completely failed leader an
ultimatum: resign or face sure impeachment, just as a group of
senators did with Nixon in the Watergate scandal.

Let’s hope that this nightmare scenario never takes place, for if it
does, we will witness a war like nothing we have ever seen or even
imagined. We do not need this, the world does not need this and so it
must be stopped, but how? I know not what it will take to motivate
Congress to somehow rise up and stop this next act of insanity before
it begins. If the Democrats can somehow convince enough Republicans to
support legislation to ban any action against Iran without
congressional approval, it would be a major step to sidestep disaster.
However, Bush & Co. have shown in many other actions that they will
not be stopped by anyone, so this monumental disaster could be on the
way.

Even if this nightmare scenario is followed by impeachment or
resignation, the damage will have been done and the Middle East will
erupt in flames. This will be a total no-win situation with no good
way to stop a massive regional war, as those whose lust for oil cannot
be satiated will never back off. And as the situation escalates,
Syria, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and possibly others nations in
that region will have no choice but to take sides, be it siding with
Sunnis or with Shiites.

There will be no winner, only losers, as the
world will be at the brink of World War III.

Is this U.S. Congress a modern-day version of the German Reichstag,
the governing body that watched in silence and total submission as a
powerful war machine was assembled and then launched those preemptive
attacks that led to the horror of World War II?

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