This can’t be good

This can’t be good: Iran announces that they’re dramatically increasing uranium enrichment, and threaten darkly about pursing nuclear weapons if the West doesn’t back off (okay, I’m paraphrasing freely). That could help provide the specific excuse that Bush will use as provocation for his attack on Iran.

It’s probably inevitable that Bush will attack. He and the neo-conservatives who run his administration have been planning an attack since before they took power, and Iran’s pursuit of things nuclear provided a veneer of practicality for planning an attack they were probably planning in any case.

While Iran’s petulance doesn’t help, there’s probably nothing that will stay Bush’s hand. He’s expressed his contempt for Congressional oversight and, by extension, the Constitution. His ardent determination to continue with escalating his Iraq war shows that he also has contempt for the will of the American people.

So, if Bush and his controllers feel they’re above the law (US or international), and Congress is unable or unwilling to use their oversight responsibilities to control a runaway presidency, it seems to me there’s nothing and no one that can stop the Bushies from their plan to attack Iran.

Increasingly heated rhetoric culminating in ultimatums that can’t be met will mean the attack is imminent. I wonder if this time the mainstream news media will be a little more sceptical of what the Bushies say about their target. I hope the media have learned their lesson from Bush’s Iraq war that, as the old saying goes, truth is the first casualty of war.

Put it all together: This can’t be good.