{"id":65,"date":"2005-02-27T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/?p=23"},"modified":"2005-02-27T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2005-02-27T15:32:09","slug":"next-stop-tehran-ver-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2005\/02\/27\/next-stop-tehran-ver-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Stop Tehran? ver 1.1"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBush and an advisor in a stratgey session.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looks like we\u2019ll soon be headed into Iran.<\/h4>\n

The hysteria about possible nukes in the hands of the Iranians has been building and building in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

The Bush administration has been making a much more subtle case than they did with Iraq \u2013 drawing the \u201cbad\u201d news out slowly, trying to shape public opinion, making it so the public can only make one conclusion: that Iran has nuclear weapons and it\u2019s the United States\u2019 job to go in there and disarm them \u2013 to save the world from the Iranian menace.<\/p>\n

Bush, a true schizophrenic, in one breath termed the idea of invading Iraq \u201cridiculous,\u201d and then flatly stated the US was \u201ckeeping all options open.\u201d
\nTalk about mixed messages.<\/p>\n

One small problem with all this: can you say WMD? In the words of President Ronald Reagan, \u201cThere they go again!\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAlthough no one apparently remembers it, our invasion of Iraq was almost wholly based on the fact that Bush assured us that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and that he was preparing to use them against the Free World. The United States was forced to invade Iraq to protect all us freedom-loving sorts from imminent destruction.<\/p>\n

Okay. So exactly how many weapons of Mass Destruction did we fond in Iraq? Don\u2019t all raise your hands at once.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. None. Zero. Zip.<\/p>\n

Oppsie daisy\u2026<\/p>\n

The really amazing thing is that Bush and his buddies have successfully pushed this fact aside.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, Jeeze\u2026 Saddam was gonna develop WMD\u2019s real soon. And he was a very very, bad man. So even if we screwed up and miscalculated about the WMD\u2019s, it was still okay to invade Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n

And people, by and large, have bought this tripe.<\/p>\n

Like PT Barnum once said, \u201c\u2026there\u2019s one born every minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

So now here we are and the administration is hyping Iran as the next big bogeyman with WMD\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Does anyone seriously believe the administration\u2019s intelligence data on Iran is better or more accurate now than it was prior to the Iraq invasion? Really?<\/p>\n

I believe the administration is lying its ass off trying to further Bush\u2019s vision of a US dominated Middle East. Like they did with Iraq, I believe they\u2019re manipulating facts to suit their conclusion.<\/p>\n

And that is dead wrong.<\/p>\n

So how many more American lives are we going to spend in support of George Bush\u2019s goal of world domination?<\/p>\n

This has got to stop.<\/p>\n

Wake up America. It\u2019s time to bring the soldiers home, now.<\/p>\n

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Bush and an advisor in a stratgey session. Looks like we\u2019ll soon be headed into Iran. The hysteria about possible nukes in the hands of the Iranians has been building and building in the past few weeks. The Bush administration has been making a much more subtle case than they did with Iraq \u2013 drawing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepellegrini.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}