Pat Buchanan sometimes gets it both right and wrong at the same time. He is insightful and makes the case why the U.S. needs to bomb Iran and probably will. But then his attitude suggests that Bush is a war monger and Bush would be wrong to carry this bombing out.
Would it put McCain in office like Pat suggests? Well for that to happen it would have to be a short sharp war that carries out its military objectives like Pat suggests. If it does that Pat should celebrate the victory and the decade of peace it will bring and not whine. His real fear should be that it will not be a sharp short war and then we will have Obama in office cutting and running in the midst of a regional Middle-East war.
We have a year or two to stop Iran from acquiring nukes and if a Democrat gets elected and it has not been done, it will never be done. You think we have problems in the Middle East now just let Iran finish installing their 56,000 advanced centrifuges that will be capable of producing nuclear material for several nuclear weapons a month. They already have a highly advanced missile system that will threaten the entire Middle East, Europe and even the U.S. through an EMP attack. Also keep in mind that Saudi Arabia will then go nuclear for self protection as well as others. Even Israel will openly expand its nuclear weapons development program if Israel had not already bombed Iran by themselves by that time. If you want a recipe for nuclear world war just allow Iran to become nuclear.
Pat says Iran does not want war. Of course they don’t want the U.S. to bomb them, but they do arm those who are warring in the Middle East against Israel and the U.S. That fact is not in question by any rational person. Iran wants to walk the line so it has time to build nukes and then it intends to dictate to the whole Middle East. That would include removing the Jewish state and overthrowing the rule of the Arab Kings and Princes.
So Pat, thanks for the information, but don’t be so damn naive. Someone might think that you really are lobbing for an advisory position with Obama?
Petraeus points to war with Iran
This is Bush’s last chance to strike and, when Iran responds, to effect its nuclear castration. Are Bush and Cheney likely to pass up this last chance to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and effect the election of John McCain? For any attack on Iran’s “terrorist bases” would rally the GOP and drive a wedge between Obama and Hillary.
Indeed, Sen. Clinton, who voted to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, could hardly denounce Bush for ordering air strikes on the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, when Petraeus testified, in her presence, that it is behind the serial murder of U.S. soldiers.
The Iranians may sense what is afoot. For Tehran helped broker the truce in the Maliki-Sadr clash in Basra, and has called for a halt to the mortar and rocket attacks on the Green Zone.
With a friendly regime in Baghdad that rolled out the red carpet for Ahmadinejad, Iran has nothing to gain by war. Already, it is the big winner from the U.S. wars that took down Tehran’s Taliban enemies, decimated its al-Qaida enemies and destroyed its Sunni enemies, Saddam and his Baath Party.
No, it is not Iran that wants a war with the United States. It is the United States that has reasons to want a short, sharp war with Iran.
