April 11, 2006
Spinning ---- Wild Speculation
I am tossing my hard-earned abstinence aside for the moment, although I'm sure I will be soon able to refocus on beauty. Meanwhile I find myself looking directly into the deranged eyes of the psychotic individuals that we call our leaders.
They seem to be gearing up for the use of nuclear weapons in Iran. Watch for the lastest code word "wild speculation" in the news. Scott McClellan used it eight times yesterday in his briefing. You know they're up to no good when they have an oft repeated label for something that is the complete opposite of what it really is. Good enough reason to sip from the bottle of outrage and horror? Probably not, but, of course, a mere sip will not do, and I can't stop now.
Dan Froomkin from the Washington Post, a real reporter, in a sea of sycophants, has the best summary. Unfortunately, he's going on vacation until the April 20th. By then we could all be fried fish. From Froomkin:
"Wolf Blitzer asked [Seymour] Hersh [from the New Yorker] on CNN on Sunday: 'So what's your bottom line? Do you believe, based on the reporting you did for this article, that the president of the United States is now aggressively plotting military action, a preemptive strike against Iran?'"
HERSH: 'The word I hear is messianic. He thinks, as I wrote, that he's the only one now who will have the courage to do it. He's politically free. I don't think he's overwhelmingly concerned about the '06 elections, congressional elections. I think he really thinks he has a chance, and this is going to be his mission.'"
And here's a little something I missed somewhere along the way. Guess who is in charge? Again from Froomkin:
"Lawrence F. Kaplan writes for the New Republic: 'Although a spokesman for the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA) declines to comment on its existence, and the press has yet to carry a single mention of it, last month the administration formed something called the Iran-Syria Operations Group (ISOG) -- a group headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Liz Cheney, the purpose of which is to encourage regime change in Iran. It's no secret that Cheney has over $80 million at her disposal to promote democracy in Iran. But ISOG isn't simply about promoting democracy. It's about helping to craft official policy, doing so not with one but two countries in its sights, and creating a policymaking apparatus that parallels -- and skirts -- Foggy Bottom's suspect Iran desk.'"
How's that for a little Nuclear Nepotism.
Do we really need another war, not to mention another hideous pollutant to add to our environmental chaos? Ask the Messiah.
Alternative possibilities for the future abound.
Photo note: Democracy made trite -- spinning in the wind