Can Bush Get Any Dumber?

Gary Hart was one of the lone voices screaming about terrorists before 9/11. Sadly, no one listened. Now he is making a new prediction: The Bush Administration will attack Iran before the November elections.

Here’s how he thinks it will play out.

Air Force tankers will be deployed to fuel B-2 bombers, Navy cruise missile ships will be positioned at strategic points in the northern Indian Ocean and perhaps the Persian Gulf, unmanned drones will collect target data, and commando teams will refine those data. The latter two steps are already being taken.

Then the president will speak on national television. He will say this: Iran is determined to develop nuclear weapons; if this happens, the entire region will go nuclear; our diplomatic efforts to prevent this have failed; Iran is offering a haven to known al Qaeda leaders; the fate of our ally Israel is at stake; Iran persists in supporting terrorism, including in Iraq; and sanctions will have no affect (and besides they are for sissies). He will not say: ...and besides, we need the oil.

Therefore, he will announce, our own national security and the security of the region requires us to act. "Tonight, I have ordered the elimination of all facilities in Iran that are dedicated to the production of weapons of mass destruction....." In the narrowest terms this includes perhaps two dozen targets.

But of course it will fail miserably, just as the armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have. One key element to the neo-con strategy is the Iranian citizens rising up and overthrowing their government. It is a borderline retarded assessment of the country, especially considering Bush’s constant demands that Iran end it’s nuclear enrichment program have caused the once unpopular Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to become wildly popular.

Hart lays out the obvious results of such an attack:

Violent reaction throughout the Islamic world; a dramatic increase in jihadist attacks in European capitals and the U.S.; radicalization of Islamic youth behind a new generation of jihadist leaders; consolidation of support for Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and a rapidly spreading malignant network; escalating expansion of anti-American sentiment throughout the world, including the democratic world; and the formation of WWIII battle lines between the U.S. and the Arab and Islamic worlds.

If we do attack Iran it will be a moronic move, which is right in line with every foreign policy step this administration has taken. Failure after failure is no reason to stop and evaluate.

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