Bush's Game


One aspect I found disturbing about the President's speech today was that he specifically linked Ahmedinejad as ordering the Quds force to ship weaponry to the Shi'ites in Iraq, when everyone knows Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei controls Quds. Why did he do this? Of course, it's easier for Bush to sow fear and confusion when it comes to Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, professional Holocaust denier and Israel hater. All red-blooded Americans want to bomb him, right? Who could oppose that? He's an evil man just like Saddam Hussein and the world will be a better place without him in it . . .

Sound familiar?

Finally, here's the debate Bush is aiming for. Today Bush asserted, very firmly, that he knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Quds was responsible for the EFPs (and other weapons) killing Americans in Iraq. In purposefully muddying the waters of the evidentiary debate, Bush moves the terms onto more favorable ground. Now the right-wing wurlitzer will start pounding out the patriotic notes of this argument, an argument Democrats will be hard pressed to win: a.) the weapons are in Iraq, b.) the Iranians gave them to the Iraqis and c.) I have a duty as president to protect American lives. Thus, we attack Iran. Questioning the evidence is to put American troops in even more danger.

That's Bush's game. How do we respond?

Update: Steve Soto has an answer. Rockefeller doesn't have the best record when it comes to standing up to this administration, but it's a start.


Sean Paul Kelley February 14, 2007 - 11:00pm
( categories: Iran )

as the Iranians were that America was giving suppport to Iraq when it was killing Iranians during the Iran-Iraq War??

Escher Sketch February 15, 2007 - 2:29pm

I see little benefit to turning the entire Middle East into a depleted uranium wasteland. This will make the oil buz more expensive as oil people discover their shortened lifespan.
As far as Dems desire to "win" anything that has been proven false with HR 1. An Anti-terror bill endorses and approves of Bush's endless war on terra.

Lasthorseman February 15, 2007 - 5:26pm

Please Mr President, explain what the post invasion strategy will be with a quarter million Iranian soldiers sitting on the supply lines through Basra.

Takachi99 February 15, 2007 - 11:34pm

the Pentagon created for the revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons.

14 (d) To counter potentially overwhelming adversary conventional forces,
15 including
16 mobile and area targets (troop concentration).
17
18 (e) For rapid and favorable war termination on US terms.
19
20 (f) To ensure success of US and multinational operations.
21
22 (g) To demonstrate US intent and capability to use nuclear weapons to deter
23 adversary use of WMD.
24
25 (h) To respond to adversary-supplied WMD use by surrogates against US
26 and multinational forces or civilian populations.

( ... Link ... )

Escher Sketch February 16, 2007 - 1:03am

Iranians stop giving weapons to Iraq - Iraq official

BAGHDAD, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Iranians have stopped training and providing weapons to Iraqi militants in Iraq in the last few weeks to allow a U.S.-backed security plan in Baghdad to succeed, a senior Iraqi official said on Sunday.

National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told CNN there was some evidence that Iranians had been supporting some Shi'ite militia groups fighting U.S. troops in Iraq.

"There is no doubt in my mind that recently in the last few weeks they have changed their position and stopped a lot of their tactics and interference in Iraq's internal affairs," Rubaie said in an interview.

It was unclear if he was talking of the Iranian government. Washington accuses Shi'ite Iran of fuelling violence in Iraq.

The United States has drafted thousands of extra troops into Iraq in an attempt to crack down on insurgency and curb sectarian conflict.

U.S. officials said this month that the Quds Force, a unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was supplying weapons to Shi'ite militia groups in Iraq.

Washington has been particularly concerned about the so- called explosively formed penetrators, a sophisticated Iranian made roadside bomb that the U.S. military says has killed 170 U.S. soldiers in Iraq since 2004.

"Recently the Iranians have changed their positions and we have some evidence that they have stopped supplying arms or creating any of these shaped mines in the streets of Baghdad," Rubaie said.

He said the Iranians had also advised some of their Shi'ite allies in Iraq to "change their position and support the government to give the Baghdad security plan a good chance of success."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO560423.htm

lol mkay

Tina February 25, 2007 - 12:40pm

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