The Persian Front

It's been two years since Bush sacked Babylon. He has since recreated it in his own image by spreading "chaos & order" like Alexander the Great did centuries before him. Will Bush now set his sights on Persia to complete his Near East Empire? Well, Liberal Revolt has complied a great timeline of the Bush administration's rhetoric on Iran called Iran Watch - Timeline to Destruction.

 

The media is too busy covering the Michael Jackson trial and Bush selling his Social Security Destruction Act--both which serve to distract people from the administration's mounting war plans for Iran. Meanwhile, oil prices grow higher and higher. I just paid $2.40/gallon here in Southern California. And how does Congress respond? Instead of funding research for fuel efficient technologies and hybrid cars, they voted 51-49 to allow for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It will take 10 years before any oil comes out of that land, probably after the land is polluted and animal populations decimated. But who cares? Dick Cheney will probably make a few G's off it. So watch for increased rhetoric on Iran (remember they have oil, and Condi Rice just talked about a pipeline deal too).

Comments

[Johnny Gosch]

That timeline page is f'ing terrifying. Chick ninjas, I tell you!

New site looks awesome! I see you left blogspot behind...I may have to check out typepad. The format is sweet. By the way, nice job with my Gannon pic.

Anyway, John Kerry sent me an email letting me know that losing the senate vote on the Arctic Refuge 51-49 is somehow a reason to celebrate. Apparently 400,000 people signed an online petition that had absolutely no effect whatsoever...So the system works.

[HP]

Why does everyone talk about bombing Iran as if it were a taken for granted "cakewalk?" Why hasn't the US/Israel already bombed the nuclear facilities? Law? World opinion? Hardly. Could it be they can't? Perhaps Iran's supersonic cruise missiles and the S-300 systems may removes the icing from the cake?