Mushroom Clouds Over Iran - Anybody Paying Attention....
Condi may get her mushroom cloud yet. While somebody please explain to these End-timers that it's time to WAKE the F*** UP? It's
past time to de-bunk the Book of Revelations for the hallucinatory
fever dream that it is and give up trying to turn the Bible into a
foreign-policy manual.
Monday's post on Seymour Hersh's contention that plans to attack Iran
with nuclear weapons were "operational" and well-underway got people
talking here on AlterNet. But in the commercial media? Not so much.
Billmon
writes: "I mean, what exactly does it take to get a rise out of the
media industrial complex these days? A nuclear first strike against a
major Middle Eastern oil producer doesn't ring the bell? Must every
story have a missing white woman in it before the cable news guys will
start taking it seriously?"
Noting that "our long national journey towards complete idiocy is over. We've arrived," Billmon continues:
Even
by the corrupt and debased standards of our times, this is a remarkable
thing. The U.S. government is planning aggressive nuclear war (the
neocons can give it whatever doublespeak name they like, but it is what
it is); those plans have been described in some detail in a major
magazine and on the front page of the Washington Post; the most the
President of the United States is willing to say about it is that the
reports are "speculative" (which is not a synonym for "untrue") and yet
as I write these words the lead story on the CNN web site is:
ABC pushes online TV envelope
ABC
is going to offer online streams of some of its most popular television
shows, including "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost," for free the day
after they first air on broadcast TV.
Billmon proposes that the story's ho-hum treatment may be due to the conventional wisdom that this isn't for real... I mean, who would do that?
Only someone in a coma during the run-up to Iraq.
Should
a nuclear first-strike occur, something we all have a hard time
wrapping our heads around, according to Billmon we'd become a rogue
state, it would "mark the definitive end of the system of collective
security – and the laws and institutions supporting that system –
established in the wake of World War II," oil would skyrocket, and
Iran, with a very capable terrorist network would likely attack the
U.S.
But maybe he's wrong and it's just a ploy to strike fear into Iran. At least the Mets are in first place. Read the whole post HERE. It's well worth the time. (Whiskey Bar)
There is no room for errors here. And what we have is a President
who refuses to own up to his past mistakes, and so is incapable of
learning from them. What we need are some adults to stand up and say
"enough" and to demand that things be done carefully, methodically, and
with an eye toward the long-term consequences of our choices.
Bogus "evidence" that actual authorities debunk?Check.
The US doing everything it can to provoke an invasion-justifying response?Check.
BushCo/PNAC only briefing those Democrats it knows are already in the tank for them?Check.
The US news media spinelessly going along for the most part?Check.
Except that this is going to be Iraq on steroids.
UPDATE: from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963
Oh, where have you been, my blue eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
And what did you hear, my blue eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
As far as Iran is concerned, only a revolt in the Pentagon can stop
these people now. And even then, a lot of the military guys are very
loyal to Dubya and think he's doing the Lord's good work or some such
insanity.
Spiro
Agnew and I are thinking of leaving Hell and relocating to Pluto, just
so we can be as far away from this mess as possible. Anyone want to
come with us? ...Nixon's ghost
The thing is, the BushCo/PNAC "Real Men Go To Teheran" campaign is playing out exactly as their Iraq run-up did at this time in 2002.
Bogus "evidence" that actual authorities debunk? Check.
The US doing everything it can to provoke an invasion-justifying response? Check.
BushCo/PNAC only briefing those Democrats it knows are already in the tank for them? Check.
The US news media spinelessly going along for the most part? Check.
Except that this is going to be Iraq on steroids.
UPDATE: from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
And what did you hear, my blue eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall
As far as Iran is concerned, only a revolt in the Pentagon can stop these people now. And even then, a lot of the military guys are very loyal to Dubya and think he's doing the Lord's good work or some such insanity.
Spiro Agnew and I are thinking of leaving Hell and relocating to Pluto, just so we can be as far away from this mess as possible. Anyone want to come with us? ...Nixon's ghost