11 April 2006

So we're going to attack Iran now. According to the Bush adminastration, we're attacking them because they have nukes. Which they probably don't. In an e-mail I received from AlterNet.org, Scott Ritter said that "there's no reason to believe that Iran has the capability, nor that they're actually doing anything to violate the nonproliferation treaty at this point." And former UN weapons inspecter Hans Blix has said that "Iran is at least five years away from developing a nuclear bomb, leaving time to peacefully negotiate a settlement...'We have time on our side in this case. Iran can't have a bomb ready in the next five years.'"

Now for what our prez said. This is a Hersh statement that I'm just gonna copy and paste: "A government consultant with close ties to the civilian leadership in the Pentagon said that Bush was 'absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get the bomb' if it is not stopped. He said that the President believes that he must do "what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do," and 'that saving Iran is going to be his legacy.'"

I very much doubt that saving Iran is going to be his legacy. His legacy is going to be driving America into three wars while we have a huge deficit. I personally believe that the only reason we're going into Iran is to forget about Iraq, much in the same way we went to Iraq to forget about Afganisthan. It seems the administration thinks American's are to forgetful and dumbfounded by whatever news they choose to tell, and will forget about the other two wars and the over 2000 soldiers who have died there.

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