Bush met with James Dobson and other so-called “leaders” of the family values crowd last week. So why was the topic of discussion big, bad Iran (via Raw Story)?
“I was invited to go to Washington DC to meet with President Bush in the White House along with 12 or 13 other leaders of the pro-family movement,” Dobson disclosed on his radio program Monday. “And the topic of the discussion that day was Iraq, Iran and international terrorism. And we were together for 90 minutes and it was very enlightening and in some ways disturbing too.” […]
Dobson went on to enumerate a series of meetings convened by Christian right leaders in Washington to discuss the supposedly existential threat to the United States from a nuclear Iran.
“I heard about this danger [from Iran] not only at the White House but from other pro-family leaders that I met during that week in Washington,” he said. “Many people in a position to know are talking about the possibility of losing a city to nuclear or biological or chemical attack. And if we can lose one we can lose ten.
“If we can lose ten we can lose a hundred,” he added, “especially if North Korea and Russia and China pile on.”
This is deeply disturbing on so many levels I don’t know what to say, other than I am more convinced than ever that Bush desperately wants to pull the trigger on his war plan to strike at Iran. The only people still likely to be on board with such an atrocity are the “Armageddon is coming!” people. And so he’s holding special meetings to rally his “spiritual troops” as it were for what comes next.
Dear God, please let me be wrong. Let this just be another in a long line of fear mongering and religious right base pandering. Because otherwise we are in for a world of shit:
“We’ll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating the region,” he said, speaking from a cavernous hangar bay. Stennis officials said 3,500 to 4,000 of the 5,000 personnel aboard were on hand. [….]
Cheney … said Iran would top his talks with Arab leaders during his regional visit [last week].
“The (Iranians) are obviously a major source of concern not only for the United States but also for most of our friends in the area, who are worried when they see an Iranian government that appears to be operating in a threatening manner… So Iran is a big area of concern,” Cheney told Fox News on Thursday.
A big world of shit.
I first heard of this back in September
What does “pro-family” have to do with blowing families up? Why is our “commander-in-chief” discussing sensitive foreign policy with a group of “pro-family” ministers? Isn’t that like treason or something?
This drive towards bringing The Second Coming(tm) is really scary.
ITMFA!
It’s just a matter of time.
Before Jan. 20, 2009.
“I wish the American people could have sat in on that meeting we had.”
So do a lot of the American people. We love to hear how Armageddon is discussed by some clowns.
While Cheney visited certain Mideast “allies” this past week, I wondered if he was telling them to get ready for the next blast.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/04/17/060417fa_fact
How many Aircraft Carriers have reach the area off the coast of Iran?
It’s a little unclear. Two or three. News of the third carrier en route for the Gulf (the Nimitz) was silent for the past month until May 8th. We know there are at least two. The USS Nimitz (which supposedly relieved the USS Eisenhower) and the USS Stennis. The Eisenhower is officially heading home. No news yet on when it is expected to reach its home port or where it is exactly right now. There’s also a French carrier off the coast of India/Pakistan in support of the NATO force there.
Just like Cheney’s Energy Task Force, you can count on questions asked about this meeting being deflected in the name of executive privilege and national security. How do you expect them to stage a theocratic coup with all you dang liberals snooping around? SHEESH!
l would posit that the truly disturbing part of all of this is not whether or not BushCo™ wants to nuke Iran, but rather the issue of a nuclear, bilogical or chemical attack in this country:
lt’s unlikely, imo, that Bush has the political capital, let alone the military support/capacity, to start a new war with Iran without a very serious casus belli…ergo: a major “attack” on the homeland.
especially troubling when you factor in this information:
Given the disdain for the constitution and the obsession with executive authority that’s already been shown by the WH…to think that this scenario is unlikely would be naive. After all the ineptitude that’s been exhibited, nobody would question the inevitable cries of we didn’t know, and all those draconian methods that we already know about, and the ones we don’t, will become the norm…and gosh darn…elections just aren’t doable when we’re under attack…
l know which scenario bothers me most.
A big world of shit….indeed.
/tinfoil
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