Generals Ready To Bail On Bush

Bush seems to have a mutiny on his hands. According to the Sunday Times, several military commanders will resign if Bush orders a strike on Iran. Four or five generals and admirals would consider an attack on Iran “reckless” and are prepared to walk away from the job to which have they dedicated their lives.

“All the generals are perfectly clear that they don’t have the military capacity to take Iran on in any meaningful fashion. Nobody wants to do it and it would be a matter of conscience for them. There are enough people who feel this would be an error of judgment too far for there to be resignations.”

American generals are known for staying on the job and fighting until they get fired. Several leaving at once is unheard of and would be a slap in the face to Bush. The generals are concerned an attack on Iran would backfire on American troops in Iraq and lead to more terrorist attacks, an increase in oil prices and possibly a regional war.

But Dick Cheney has been quite vocal lately about “keeping all options on the table” and two aircraft carriers are sitting the Persian Gulf. The administration has begun a propaganda war, with unsubstantiated claims that Iran is supplying bombs to Iraqi insurgents. And New Yorker magazine has reported that the Pentagon has already begun planning air strikes on Iran.

Meanwhile, the Bush propaganda machine on Iran nuclear ambitions has hit a snag with the UN. According to the LA Times, most of the US intelligence that has been shared with the International Atomic Energy Agency has turned out to be inaccurate and none has led to “significant discoveries inside Iran.”

"Since 2002, pretty much all the intelligence that's come to us has proved to be wrong," said a senior diplomat at the IAEA. Another official here described the agency's intelligence stream as "very cold now (because) so little panned out."

In one example, US intelligence provided the IAEA with documents from a laptop computer that was supposedly stolen from Iran. The documents contained designs to upgrade missiles to carry nuclear warheads, plans for underground nuclear testing and research into "green salt," which is used during uranium enrichment. However, the IAEA didn’t buy what the US was selling. Why? Because all the documents were in English, not Farsi. How stupid do you have to be to try to pin something on another country but not use their language?

Iran certainly is up to something but the administration cannot help but lie and exaggerate the facts. The IAEA released a report this week declaring that Iran had expanded uranium enrichment and defied a Security Council deadline to suspend nuclear activities. But reality is just not good enough for Bush and company.

And all the pressure the US is putting on Iran is only serving to increase the popularity of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The once unpopular president is now riding high by standing up to the US and claiming that Iran has the same right to nuclear power as other nations. Ahmadinejad's stance has also increased his popularity in other Islamic nations, increasing the chance of Iran spreading its militant brand of Islam.

All in all, a situation that could not be handled any worse by Bush.

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