Let's Roll

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

~Ronald Reagan

I remember how the Bush Administration kept claiming that not only would Iraq be an easy war, but a cheap one, one that would pay for itself.

How'd that one work out?

As much as it pains me to quote Ronald Reagan, I now miss the old sleepy airhead and would gladly exchange him for Bush, the sequel. He seems like Lincoln in comparison to the fucknuts he has birthed.

And with that, it's on to Iran!

Chuckles Krauthammer's thirst for fucked up wars will not be sated until the biggest clusterfuck of all is accomplished.

How this psychopath manages to be considered "respected" is less a wonder than an indictment of our time.

"More War" Charlie attending the "special" Chimperial audience of conservative ("We're Winning") journalists the other day where Bush performed his special war dance ["dance monkey dance"].

In his televised Sept. 11 address, President Bush said that we must not "leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons." There's only one such current candidate: Iran.

The next day, he responded thus (as reported by Rich Lowry and Kate O'Beirne of National Review) to a question on Iran: "It's very important for the American people to see the president try to solve problems diplomatically before resorting to military force."

"Before" implies that the one follows the other. The signal is unmistakable. An aerial attack on Iran's nuclear facilities lies just beyond the horizon of diplomacy. With the crisis advancing and the moment of truth approaching, it is important to begin looking now with unflinching honesty at the military option.

The costs will be terrible...

So they are not even proclaiming cheap anyore. But what the hey, Krauthammer proclaims, let's do it anyway!!!

However, equally undeniable is the cost of doing nothing.

In the region, Persian Iran will immediately become the hegemonic power in the Arab Middle East. Today it is deterred from overt aggression against its neighbors by the threat of conventional retaliation. Against a nuclear Iran, such deterrence becomes far less credible. As its weak, nonnuclear Persian Gulf neighbors accommodate to it, jihadist Iran will gain control of the most strategic region on the globe.

Then there is the larger danger of permitting nuclear weapons to be acquired by religious fanatics seized with an eschatological belief in the imminent apocalypse and in their own divine duty to hasten the End of Days. The mullahs are infinitely more likely to use these weapons than anyone in the history of the nuclear age.

Jeebus

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.


~George Orwell

God, to be living in the same time as these war mongering motherfuckers is enough to make you yearn for the joy that is "home frontal labotomy".

These guys are the very people a Republican who knew something about war was talking about:

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

~General Douglas MacArthur

What? Did you think I was going to use Eisenhower? He qualifies too:

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Make no mistake, without a stinging rebuke at the polls, they are going in -- they are bombing Iran, they are that insane.

Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

~George W. Bush