OK – This shit is just getting too scary:
The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.
The article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said that Bush and others in the White House have come to view Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential Adolf Hitler.
As John points out, unfortunatley Seymour Hersh usually gets his stories right.
Some other interesting points of this article before going off. First is this and I wonder if we know who it is talking about:
In recent weeks, the president has quietly initiated a series of talks on plans for Iran with a few key senators and members of the House of Representatives, including at least one Democrat, the report said.
The safe money is on Lieberman.
Now we see that a the chickenhawk in chief is in such a hurry to push the big red button, but what does out military think about this?
But the former senior intelligence official said the attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the military, and some officers have talked about resigning after an attempt to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans in Iran failed, according to the report.
“There are very strong sentiments within the military against brandishing nuclear weapons against other countries,” the magazine quotes the Pentagon adviser as saying.
The adviser warned that bombing Iran could provoke “a chain reaction” of attacks on American facilities and citizens throughout the world and might also reignite Hezbollah.
Yes – even leaders in our military don’t want to nuke another country. This is Bush’s hard on. At least when Clinton got a hard on, it was literally and he got it taken care of without killing anyone. It is hard to believe in this day and age that the President of the United States would even consider such a tactic. I suggest Bush have a front row seat if they plan on doing this. Better yet, I implore Congress to remove this dangerous asshole from the White House before he does bring on Armageddon.