Two words for you: Curtis LeMay.

Luckily for the little bit of sleep I still get at night, I don’t see nukes as a serious option in play right now.

All he needs is the support of the Air Force generals who will be given the orders to use tactical nukes on “suspected” Iranian nuclear facilities. Flyboys have believed since the days of Douhet that wars can be won with air power alone. That this hasn’t happened yet (except perhaps in the case of the bombing of Serbia) is always (to these “bombing can accomplish everything we need” theorists) because we don’t bomb enough with the proper firepower, but with the availability of tactical nukes, the Air Force generals are convinced that this time it’ll work.

All we can really hope for to save us from this madness is a mutiny by the generals when Dimwit gives the order to “nuke the Islamofascists NOW!”

I really don’t think Bush himself can tell a Shia from a Sunni or an Iranian from an Afghani. He’s just a puppet on a fraying string. All the puppeteers care about is making money. And as for the soldiers: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Give ‘em a 21 gun salute and forget ‘em, that’s the Neocon motto.

I’m feeling bitter tonight. If things go wrong in November, I’m gonna have to get away from politics for a while, myself. I did that after the 94 debacle. I had to quit subscribing to the newspaper, watching the news on TV, etc. I read a lot of escapist literature and saved my sanity. But I really do feel that at some point esaping from this mess will be a luxury we can no longer afford.

They don’t.

As long as they’ve got theirs, and keep getting more, they don’t need to.

Presuming they leave office in 2009 (and I think they will; Bush, at least, is thoroughly bored with being President), they’ll retreat to their walled communities to pursue lives of golden restful ease, paid for by the billions of dollars they’ve stolen from us all.

Nothing bad will ever happen to any of them, and we’ll be paying for their diabolical idiocy for the next three generations.

An attack on Iran would dry up U.S. oil from the Middle East at a minimum. All of the attacks plans I’ve read about call for bombing primarily civilian areas. Its hard to imagine oil owned BushCo targetting the fields or the production infrastructure. Oil may stop for awhile but it wouldn’t be lost completely. Oil that is no longer going the U.S. would be freed up for them. The money that China is lending to the US is more about purchasing a really big stick to use against the US as opposed to an investment that will be repaid. I think China believes it could survive a disruption in the supply better than the US. A decimation of the Naval forces in the Gulf would demonstrate that Chinese military prowess is comparable to the USs if not as large. Finally, the massive losses in Iraq and the gulf would also bring about a huge contraction of US military projection world wide.
I am by no means an expert. That is just my take on what I’ve read. I desperately hope I’m wrong.

Haven’t the neo-cons thought this one through? Just who do they think is in the religious majority in Iraq? They find it deplorable that Iraq’s parade in the streets in favor of Hezbollah, do they think the Shiite would nod in approval if we attack Iran?

Are they that insane?

The mind reels — this only makes sense that the plutpocrats behind this consider our soldiers to be so many replaceable non-unionized worker drones, expendable for their pleasure.

mikey

Then I snap to and remember that a whole bunch of 20 year olds will be slaughtered for Incurious George’s small dick over-compensation scheme if that happens.

Disappointing stuff from Gary R. there, if that’s the “real” one. No “The facts are…”, no posting of 12 Drudge approved talking points etc.

Really, Gary, do better or we’ll get bored with you.

Literally fish in a barrel.

The Chinese and the Russians would love for George to try. An actual live fire exercise for their cruise missile systems?

mikey

Consider – how will a goodly portion of the military take it? How will the state department take it? How will Congress take it? Yet OTOH, there will be plenty of rabid, gun-owning Apocalypse-wishers thirsty for some Islamofascist blood.

And we’ve supposedly already got some infrastructure going in, with the “detention camp” building rumored to be in the works.

So I’m buying stock in those cyanide-pill companies.

For the love of tiny green monkeys, why?!!!?!?!!?!

Fuck, I really can’t take it anymore. I just can’t. I need to come up with a hobby or interest that has nothing at all to do with politics. Help me out here – should I try fly fishing? Knitting? Promiscuity? Selling things on ebay? I’m open to suggestions.