Do you get the feeling that Bush wants to invade Iran?

Question

Suddenly Iran is getting all this negative media attention, and being blamed for the in-fighting that is occuring in Iraq. Why Bush accepts no responsibility for this is beyond me. Would it not be convenient for Bush to use this as an excuse to invade Iran? The excuse he used for Iraq was "weapons of mass destruction". Will he dare to use the same excuse for Iran?

Answer 1

Chips down, Bush prepares a Hail Mary bet

It's just like playing blackjack in Vegas.

Invariably, sitting right next to you is some guy, eyes shifty and body twitchy and making weird sounds with his mouth and smelling vaguely of sawdust and horse manure and dead dreams, with a huge pile of chips he is quickly turning into a very small pile of chips.

He is suffering. He is playing terribly, grumbling, sneering at the dealer, talking to the cards like they were his personal slutty harem, complaining to his very angry God who is apparently no longer coming through for him. He is getting desperate. He is sweating, glancing around, wondering where all his drunken fraternity friends scurried off to.

Soon he is down to his last chips. He makes one final stab, but his final bet tanks. He is out, the pile is gone.

He then does what every miserable, lunkheaded gambler does at this point: In a fit of alcoholic rage and demonic encouragement, he says, "Screw it" -- and digs into his pocket, pulls out his last remaining crumpled $1,000 bill and slaps it down on the table in one big final gesture meant to turn his fortunes around all at once, damn the wife at home and forget a decent meal and forget every ironclad rule of gambling because damn it the gods owe him and he's long overdue for a change in fortune. Yes. Right. Sure he is.

Sure enough, the lug loses his big Hail Mary bet. He is broke. He cannot believe it. He curses the table, curses the whore cards, swears at the dealer for not treating him better, slams the rest of his drink and his face contorts and his hands shake and he stumbles off into the night, railing against his lousy luck, the gods, all of humanity. Same ol' situation, happening all over Vegas. And, of course, Washington, D.C.

Now, here he is, sitting right next to all the other countries at the Big Table, representing America, it's little Dubya Bush, stewing in his own juices, his poll numbers hovering right near Nixon levels, mumbling to himself, smelling vaguely of sawdust and horse manure and dead Social Security overhaul plans.

He is pockmarked by scandal, buffeted by storms of disapproval and infighting and nascent impeachment. He authorized the leak of classified security information merely to smear an Iraq war critic, he lied about WMD and lied about Saddam and lied about making the United States safer and lied about, well, just about everything, on top of launching the worst and most violent and most expensive, unwinnable war since Vietnam.

His pile of betting capital is down to a tiny lump, nothing like back when he had the table rigged and all the pit bosses worked for him and the pile was as big as a roomful of Texas cow pies. But now, fortune is frowning. In fact, fortune is white-hot furious at being so viciously molested, spit upon, raped lo these many years. The truth is coming out: Bush has now lost far, far more bets than he ever won.

What's to be done? Why, do what any grumbling, furious, confused, underqualified alcoholic gambler does: reach down deep and say, "To hell with the nation and to hell with the odds and to hell with the rest of the planet," and pull out one more desperate, crumpled war from deep in your pants, slap it on the table and hear the world moan.

But this time, try to make it serious. Do not rule out the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Do not rule out another massive air strike, ground troops, special forces, a strategy so intense it makes Iraq look like a jog in the park. Think of yourself as creating a masterful legacy, going down in history as the guy who "saved" the world from Iran's nukes while protecting American oil interests. Yes? Can you smell the oily sanctimony in the air? Is God speaking to you again, telling you to damn the torpedoes and kill more Muslims? You are the chosen one, after all.

Sound far-fetched? Don't think even Bush could be capable of using nukes to slap Iran? Perish the thought. All reports from underground White House sources -- most notably by way of Sy Hersh's horrifying report in a recent New Yorker -- indicate that Dubya and his remaining team of war-happy flying monkeys have been secretly laying out plans to attack Iran for months, possibly including the use of tactical nuclear weapons to get at those deep Iranian bunkers, all because Iran just celebrated its entrance into the world's "nuclear club" by finally enriching some uranium for the first time. Cookies all around!

No matter that most analysts say that Iran is far from being a true threat, that a nuclear Iran is at least a good decade away, if not longer. No matter that 10 years is a good long time to work on ways to force Iran out of the game -- via negotiation, diplomacy, sanctions -- without unleashing another river of never-ending violence.

With Bush in power, there is no waiting. There is no thought of avoiding another hideous war at all costs. To the Bush hawks, diplomacy is a failed joke. Negotiation is for intellectuals and tofu pacifists. In the Dubya worldview, the planet is a roiling cauldron of nasty threats, crammed with terrorists and hateful Muslims and foreign demons suddenly growling on our doorstep when, curiously, they really weren't there before he stumbled into power. Amazing how that works.

With the Democrats now back in control of the congress, who will (with any luck) waste no time launching a number of long-overdue investigations into Bush's failed war and the various scandals and lies and fiscal abuses that led us all here.

For Dubya, now is the time. One last, desperate gamble. Slam that last drink, scrunch up your face, screw the rules and let the bombs fly. What, you don't think he could do it? Don't think a nuclear attack on Iran is possible? You haven't looked into the tiny, ink-black eyes of Dick Cheney lately. You haven't seen Rumsfeld's arrogant sneer, seen Bush looking confused and lost, wondering where all his "capital" went, desperately hunting for a legacy and finding only irresponsibility and self-righteousness and death.

But hell, as we already know, that's good enough for him.

Answer 2

I think Bush would want to feel secure about Iraq first before considering any type of conflict with Iran. At this point we're just starting the increase in troops strategy, so it would probably take a few more months just to make Iraq secure enough for Bush to think about Iran. If we do get involved in a conflict against Iran, it would be a harder fight than Iraq, due to them having a more powerful army than the Iraqi one Saddam possessed, and they also could pull off terrorist tactics which so far have been brutal to our armed forces. Besides that I think he would want the support of other U.N. nations just so we weren't alone in the conflict.

Now I don't think he would use the "weapons of mass destruction" excuse because he would know or at least be paranoid about the public rioting over another war due to the same excuse. I mean the American people don't want to go through another war like the one in Iraq & Afghanistan. Iran would have to interfer in a way for our tactics to have "holes" or "gaps" in them, so another words Bush's excuse is going to be about how much devistation Irans interference has done to our armed forces. If we are to go to war with Iran.

Well I was wondering. What would you do if you were president at this time? and what would you have done about Iraq when Saddam was in power?......just curious.

Answer 3

No, In fact I think that the opposite is true. Iran would like nothing more than to provoke the US into direct action so they can point their fingers and use the tired old "look at the big bully" act in forum of international public opinion (where wars are actually won and lost).

There are few things that Bush would like less than being forced to invade Iran. That would involve a huge negative impact to his already low public opinion numbers. Iran, of course, knows this, which is why they are taking this opportunity to be openly antagonistic. It's kind of like poking a caged tiger with a stick.

Answer 4

It would have been better if there was a clear choice for the democratic nomination this year. Dragging this whole primary on and on is definitely going to add fuel to fire already raging. However, only time will tell how much this will negatively affect the party and the November election. I don't think the divisions are too deep, yet, that we couldn't come back and unify. However, I have never thought these two would be party unifiers and they are proving that to be true everyday. Democrats may still be able to unite under a platform of anyone but McCain, but that will only drive more independents away. If they haven't already been driven away.

Answer 5

No, I don't get that feeling. I get the feeling that he wants to let Iran know that they better stay clear of our business in Iraq. So now Bush is responsible for the Iranians and Syrians supplying the insurgents with weapons? If you are an American, BE an American. Stand behind your country, or go live somewhere else. I get sick of you crybaby MF'ers that can only criticize. You suck. Make sure you report me now, asshole.

Answer 6

I'm not sure what the plan is. I guess we could just wait until 10 or 15 Ameican cities disappear under a mushroom cloud from Iranian nukes, smuggled across the southern border, by terrorist trained to pass themselves off as mexicans by Chavez.

That way we could be sure they had weapons of mass destruction and were really going to use them. Then we could nuke their manufacturing facilities, and all we'd have to worry about it the few dozen that were either already on their way over here or stashed some where. I guess at that point we would have to invade to find them.

Or we could just nuke them now and not have to worry about it.

Answer 7

Just nuke em. That's what they would do to us if they could.

And they're getting pretty close to being able to.

Unless you think those nice Islamics wouldn't do anything like that.

Think about it. They have sworn to destroy us. Kill us all.

Now it seems to me, that if I see some guys coming up to my house with the intent to cut me to pieces and my family too, I'm not going to be to concerned about how to be diplomatic. Those SOB's are getting 7 rounds off a 12 gage shotgun. Double 00.

The analogy is not that different.

Answer 8

Bush is itching to invade Iran.

Answer 9

If not invade...maybe he is baiting them to do something so Bush will have a reason to attack. Bush is seriously provoking the Middle East...instead of making the world safer he has managed to make even more unstable with his asinine plans.

Answer 10

I'm pretty sure that in the world of "the shrub", Iran must be made to feel the power and wrath of the Christian Nation of America. After all, they continue to cling to their Muslim faith, and refuse to be subservient to the whims of Washington.

Answer 11

Yea, haveing two different countries with a similar name is confusing. Might as well combine them so that Bush quits getting confused.