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The quickening pace of war preparations
by The Canadian
| August 28, 2007 |
Do you remember that note from Sherrie B.? "All I have to say about this -- and this is known to me "personally" -- is that for
those ships that leave there are reasons for it. October is the month you
need to be looking at. CLOSELY."
I cannot get her message out of my thoughts. The more I see the quickening
pace of war preparations in the Middle East, the more I think her warning was timely.
I note the increasingly overt provocations of the US against Iran, and the
US' recent and unusual sale of highly sophisticated advanced medium range air-to-air missiles & the unprecedented sale of a large amount of military fuel
supplies to Israel. I also note, for example, Syria's movement of some of
its commando units to the Golan. I also note Sarkoszy's explicit warning
about possible US bombings of Iran in his first ever foreign affairs speech
as France's President. I note the US has just arrested more Iranian
citizens who were in Iraq to sign an electricity supply agreement. Hezbollah
has announced it is restocked and ready. Hamas and Fatah have renounced
recent truces with Israel.
The brutal heat of the Summer is almost over in the Middle East and the September UN
meetings concerning Iranian sanctions are picking up where the ambiguity of
July left off. ...
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Maybe I'm a fatalist, Canadian, maybe I'm a a cynic, but to me everything about Bush and Cheney adds up to an inevitable attack on Iran.
In the build-up to the slaughter in Iraq I'd never before seen such insanity in American leadership, and trying to make sense of it between the pre-war protests I sometimes suspected Cheney and Bush were bluffing. Kept telling myself, nobody could be that stupid for real, right?
But this time around, the protests are tiny, and I don't think it's because Americans are eager for another damn fool war. Most Americans know better, but they also know Cheney and Bush don't give a damn give a damn about public opinion or protests, don't give a damn about Congress, don't give a damn about U.S. soldiers' lives, and they don't give a damn about sanity. There's no opposition party in America, and Cheney and Bush sure as sh*t don't bluff.
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Cheney and Bush want another war -- and they always, always get what they want.
It's really just a matter of when they'll trigger World War III, not whether or if. And like everything else, when is something Cheney and Bush will decide. This ain't a democracy and the American people have no say in the matter. |
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