Causus Belli

I said:

One thing we should understand is that it is now the policy of the Bush administration to wage war against Iran. There is no evidence or consideration that will sway it from this, because it isn't at all concerned about Iran's nuclear ambitions, it's concerned with maintaining Congressional majorities for the GOP.

Kevin said:

Since Iran is incapable of delivering a nuclear weapon 7,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, the primary doomsday scenario they've offered up is that Iran (or a terrorist group working with Iran) will ship a completed nuke through an American port and then threaten to detonate it in a large city.... Today, House Republicans voted almost unanimously against an amendment to beef up port security and install radiation monitors at all U.S. ports of entry. They also blocked consideration of an amendment to require 100% scanning of shipping containers entering the United States. I think this tells you just how seriously they take the actual threat of a nuclear Iran.

The Republicans that I know seem to think of themselves as bulwarks of reality against some hippie-dippy liberal fantasy land. They should get their heads out of their asses and take a look around. It's the GOP that's pushing the unreal and the ineffective on the United States.

Those hippie-dippy liberals have been pretty much right on the mark about just about everything for the past six years. Remember that when Bush starts saying "No decision has been made about invading Iran. I pray for peace."

Posted by shamanic at March 17, 2006 01:20 PM | TrackBack