Two months ago, I thought the only thing that would keep the White House out of Iran was an Iranian nuclear bomb.

Now we've got the Iraq poll numbers.

Remember how the Republicans used the "wag the dog" attacks to discredit Clinton's anti-terrorist moves during the Monica scam?  That effectively prevented the Dems from using the "wag the dog" line of attack against Bush when he was staging a war under false pretenses in Iraq.

I think the same principle is in play.  Americans have seen the "WMD requires war" maneuver.  All that matters now is we know we've been played.  They cried wolf.  Iran starting a 5-15yr program to create the bomb isn't gonna galvanize Americans into wanting to take on Iran.

Our appetite for imperialist expansion waned when we didn't see the promised benefits.  I hope.

Besides, even the ass-kisser in the pentagon have to be scared of doubling our conflict in the middle east.

I'm sure the politicos (Rove, etc) would love to use Iran as an excuse to bail on Iraq, but there's even less chance of winning a ground war in Iran.

Let Europe or China or Russia deal with Iran if its weapon's ambitions are a serious threat to world safety.  After all, they're a hell of a lot closer and more likely to feel the effects than we are.  And our world credibility is zero.

Thanks George.


The Religious Right didn't take over the Republican party with a brilliant strategy of appeasement and selecting 'electable moderates'

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I added info to my new diary --
Nuclear Spy AQ Khan - CIA/America Refused Arrest in 1975 & 1985

Pakistani nuclear spy AQ Khan stole essential blue prints in the Netherlands in the seventies. The Dutch secret service BVD was on to the espionage and uncovered the role Khan played to remove documants from nuclear facilities of UCN/URENCO ultracentrifuge process for enriched uranium and NIKHEF research institute.

Ruud Lubbers reveals today that on two occasions to his personal knowledge, the decision to arrest Khan for espionage was twarted by the CIA and America. The reason was the CIA and US was following Khan in his effort to obtain nuclear materials and sophisticated nuclear test equipment, in order to uncover the countries and persons involved in world-wide nuclear proliferation. Therefore on both occasions, Dutch government and Justice stepped back and let Pakistani nuclear spy travel out of the Netherlands.

Illicit Nuclear Weapons Programs Involve Smuggling High-Precision Bearings
Uranium enrichment gas centrifuge bearing, confiscated
by the U.S. CIA in Iraq in mid-2003 represents an older,
less-efficient design of uranium gas centrifuge:

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