Powers of prognostication
Here's a piece worth reading from Barry Gordon in today's Op Ed News concerning the familiar scent of ongoing plans for military, possibly nuclear, attack on Iran.
As regular visitors to this site are well aware, I've been shouting for months about the similarities of this scenario with the current Administration's "justification" of our unwarranted invasion of Iraq. The same dubious evidence. The same belligerent rhetorical tone and reckless fearmongering. The same exaggeration of the immediacy of danger from Tehran - which, for the umpteenth time, doesn't have nuclear weapons!
It's up to the citizens of this nation to raise a cry against planned military intervention in Iran on the basis of... well, of nothing but the assurances of the Bush Administration that such a threat exists. This group has given us no reason over the last five years to place any faith in its powers of prognostication.
As regular visitors to this site are well aware, I've been shouting for months about the similarities of this scenario with the current Administration's "justification" of our unwarranted invasion of Iraq. The same dubious evidence. The same belligerent rhetorical tone and reckless fearmongering. The same exaggeration of the immediacy of danger from Tehran - which, for the umpteenth time, doesn't have nuclear weapons!
It's up to the citizens of this nation to raise a cry against planned military intervention in Iran on the basis of... well, of nothing but the assurances of the Bush Administration that such a threat exists. This group has given us no reason over the last five years to place any faith in its powers of prognostication.
posted by Bob P @ 7:00 PM
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