THERE'S NO MAGIC WAND TO WAVE AT BUSH ADDICTIONS

Bush's top officials openly assert that he can do anything he wants--including attacking another country--on his authority as Commander in Chief.
Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution/Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith/The Nation


All words between quotation marks were spoken by our Long War President George W. Bush. Words between brackets are by Mad Plato.

1. "America is addicted to oil."
[I'm addicted to war.]
2. "America is addicted to oil."[I'm addicted to breaking laws.]
3. "America is addicted to oil."
[I'm addicted to using bad grammar.]
4. “It’ll take time to restore chaos...” - Washington, DC - White House South Lawn - Remarks upon Arrival from Camp David - 4/13/03 [I'm addicted to restoring chaos quickly.]
5. “Natural gas is...hemispheric...” - Austin, TX - President-Elect Press Conference - 12/20/2000
[I'm not.]
6. "Ethanol is good for the whole country." [I'm not.]
8. "We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." -Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002
[And I've given you one!]
9. "The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway." Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004
[I just help them out.]
10. "Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." -Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
[Is America a free nation?]
11. "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." -Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." -Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
[I really don't know what the hell I'm saying.]

AND...
Journalists at a Columbia University event are worried that, Bush, Rove and Cheney, if they thought they were going to lose the House in November and face serious investigations into their crimes and deceits, would do something treasonous, like launching a war against Iran, or perhaps allowing another major terrorist attack against a U.S. target, so that they could then clamp down further on domestic freedom and ramp up jingoistic support among their wavering base.
Dave Lindorff


There is considerable evidence that military action against Iran has already started. Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner (ret.) told CNN that "the decision has been made and military operations are under way." He said the Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency recently told him that the Iranians have captured dissident units "and they've confessed to working with the Americans." Journalist Seymour Hersh wrote in The New Yorker that "American combat troops are now operating in Iran." He quotes a government consultant who told him that the units were not only identifying targets but "studying the terrain, and giving away walking-around money to ethnic tribes, and recruiting scouts from local tribes and shepherds.

article | posted April 21, 2006 (web only)
Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution/Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith/The Nation