Thanks, John, for an excellent summary of Bush's Iran B.S.

as i sit here in skopje early thursday morning (6 hrs. ahead of edt), watching cnni relentlessly flog the iran "crisis," i am reading john at americablog who has the 4-1-1 on this latest wh criminal diversion... according to john, the two main drivers are...

1.) Iran is a convenient way to change the subject

from all the horrors bushco has perpetrated that we're having serious trouble gagging down...

• the Iraq debacle
• rising gas prices
• Valerie Plame
• New Orleans lost
• Republican corruption
• the massive budget deficit
• how Bush lied to the American people in trying to sell them on the Iraq war.

so, why are we seeing iraq iran being hyped NOW...?

2.) Bringing up Iran now is a convenient way to help Republicans in the fall congressional elections

although there are several things i don't agree with, john has some good suggestions on what we should be stressing to put a halt to this latest insanity...

• George Bush is the wrong man to be launching yet another war. America simply cannot afford another rash Bush misadventure.

(my own comment here is that there is no "RIGHT" man to be launching yet another war... we cannot have another war, period...)

• Slow down, we've got ten years. America's intelligence community estimates that Iran is still ten years away from building a nuclear weapon.
• Since we have ten years, we can at the very least wait seven months until the congressional elections this fall. America needs a Congress that is going to look into Bush's claims about Iran's nuclear program and determine if those claims are even credible.
• It is ridiculous to consider any congressional resolution on Iran until after the fall elections. George Bush proved with Iraq that he has no intention of using diplomacy to avoid war.
• There is no reason we need to even go to war until Bush has left office. George Bush has proven that he is unable to wage war effectively.

(again, there is no reason we need to go to war, period...)

• Bush is the not the president we want exercising the nuclear option. There are credible news reports that President Bush isn't just considering using nuclear weapons against Iran, but that he is strongly leaning towards that option.

(we don't want ANYONE exercising the nuclear option, period...)

• Bush either lied to us, or was unable to determine the truth, about Iraq's WMD program (which we now know didn't exist). Why should we believe claims from the same president and same intelligence agencies about Iran's WMD program?
• What military and what money are we going to use to launch a war against Iran? Our troops are stuck in Iraq, and Bush says he refuses to withdraw them. So what troops are we going to use to invade Iran?
• Why is it always us? If Iran is such a threat, then why not let the Europeans and the Russians and the Chinese take care of it? Clearly none of those countries wants a nuclear Iran on their back porch.

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