Wednesday, September 05, 2007

War with Iran?

Rumors and reports that the administration is planning to attack Iran persist. While I constantly remind myself not to underestimate Bush's capacity for mendacity and duplicity, I remain skeptical that he would actually try to start a war against Iran (barring some spectacular attack that would convince even the skeptical that the Iranian regime was behind it), or that the public would go along with it. Where would the troops come from? Where would the money come from? What secure bases could we use?

Even Bush and Cheney don't seem that doctrinaire and that dumb.

But then again, I've been wrong before.

1 comment:

Leanderthal, Lighthouse Keeper said...

The troops would come from the carrier groups in the Gulf, pilots and missile launchers. The rumor mill has it that this would be a massive air raid on 1200 sites in Iran. The money would come from continued funding of the War On Terrorism which the Dems still haven't had the guts or sense to stop. Bush conveniently labelled an element of the Iranian military "terrorists" recently. So this would be part of the war on terrorism, not Iran. The secure bases would be the ships in the Gulf. No ground troops involved. The goal is to annihilate Iran's military.

Even some neo-cons are calling this "lunacy". The lunatic is Cheney.