I was vacillating about whether or not to go to an anti-Bush demonstration today at 5 p.m., but I think this tipped me over the line:
Paul Rogers writes in opendemocracy.net that the Bush Administration is still considering a strike on Iran in the last months of its administration. The idea would be to bind the next administration into a war.
Not only is this scary, but it seems almost probable. What else would this bunch of psychos do? Like Jim Lobe, cited in the article, I've been skeptical of the prospects of war with Iran given how overstretched the U.S. military is and the disastrous political consequences it could potentially have, but as the time wanes in the presidency, the administration transforms even more from stationary bandits to roving bandits. So, Cheney et al. may actually make a calculation to plunge all of us even closer to a level of violence and warfare that I don't even want to imagine.
That's what I want to know. I'll show up to the demonstration today, but what can we do to stop this from happening? I think this might silently have become THE most important thing that anyone who cares about countless people who would be affected by an expanded conflict (Americans and others) can do now. Moreover, it transcends political labels - maybe I'm being overwrought, but having read my history, I'm really worried that with no lag in warmongering and the failure of either McCain or Obama to take a stand against expanded war with Iran, we might be in for a lot of trouble unless we do something now...
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