Sounds Like Deja Vu To Me

Seems as if we have been doing this same song and dance since the George H. W. Bush administration. White House accuses country of having nuclear weapons, country denies it. White House fabricates a case for sanctions and requests a nuclear inspection team. Team goes into country, no evidence of nuclear weapons found.

If memory serves me correctly, we used the same argument to justify a war against Iraq. The White House insisted Saddam Hussein was building Weapons Of Mass Destruction (WMD), so we sent inspectors in. The inspectors found nothing, and the White House insisted the inspectors were lying. George Bush orders an invasion to overthrow the government who he alleged to be building a WMD program. Troops go in, overthrow government, White House sets Hussein to be executed, and now our troops are stranded fighting in a country who did not need our assistance in the first place.

Now we have the White House building a similar argument against Iran. With no proof to support the claim of Iran building nuclear weapons, the White House is wholly convinced that Iran is lying.

Recently, the Associated Press posted an article from the UN Inspection team indicating that there is "No Evidence" of Iran attempting to weaponize nuclear material. How will that little tidbit of information fly in the hallowed halls of the White House?

You know, people can think of several ways to commit suicide. Perhaps the easiest way would be to flaunt a virgin nuclear weapons program in the face of the world's sole remaining superpower. No, let's forget suicide; doing something like that is just plain dumb. Here we have the country of Iran who is surrounded by US troops on both major borders. Are we saying that the leadership of Iran is so stupid that they would openly provoke a nuclear showdown in the Persian Gulf? We're not, but George Bush is.

How much longer are we going to allow this Alexander The Great mentality to fester? Are we a nation of Lemmings just following our leader down the pathway to doom? In case you are not aware, Russia is not going to sit idly by while we run rough shot in Iran. We would be knocking on the back door of Russia, geographically speaking. In other words, we would be begging for World War III, only this time, it truly will be the war to end all wars. All of this because we followed the direction of some cartoon character with a store bought degree.

People, realistically speaking, there is a large powder keg in the Persian Gulf, and we have an idiot holding the matches. Need I remind you that even though the Soviet Union dispersed in 1989, the satellite states of the former Soviet Union still have those cold war era nuclear weapons. In my humble opinion, if we fire a shot in Iran, someone is going to fire several shots at us. Only problem is, the shots fired at us are the ones that are intended to wipe out cities with a single warhead. Is it truly worth the risk?

The hand writing is on the wall. George Bush declared war against a ghost (terrorism is not physical, it is ideological, much the same as communism), and now his big Texas sized ego will not permit him to see a way out. Let's watch his eyes, and see if he can bluff his way out of this one.