Monday, January 14, 2008

Remember the Maine?

The Navy Times reported the following today:

A threatening radio message to U.S. warships may have been a coincidence but was taken seriously because it came at the same time Iranian vessels swarmed the American fleet, the commander of one of the American ships said Sunday.


In other words, no one really knows what happened in the incident. Gulf of Tonkin, anyone?

Remember too that after the National Intelligence Estimate concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2003, Dubya proclaimed that Iran was a nuclear threat (or has he always puts it, a "nookyoolar" threat) because it might someday revisit its former nookyoolar program.

If you think I'm paranoid because I believe the Dubya gang is looking for a pretense for war with Iran, think again. No one can seriously maintain that Dubya and company wouldn't do such a thing, because that's exactly what they did to lead us into war with Iraq. There was no factual support for war with Iraq, but Dubya and his posse assured us there was. We needed only trust their superior wisdom and information. Do you still trust them?

If you like the Iraq war, you'll love the Iran war.

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