Friday, February 02, 2007

Who will stop a Bush attack on Iran?

As Marjorie Cohn points out, the warlords in the White House have been gearing up for an attack on Iran for the past four or five years.

She writes:
Congress has the responsibility to prevent Bush from attacking Iran. In view of congressional opposition to his war in Iraq, Bush will not likely ask permission to make war on Iran. We can expect Bush to provoke -- or even fabricate a la Tonkin Gulf -- an incident with Iran and then claim he's responding to Iranian aggression. Senior Pentagon officials reported in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times that Air Force and Navy fighter planes along the Iran-Iraq border may be used more aggressively. Bush will then try to bootstrap the September 2001 and October 2002 congressional authorizations for force in Afghanistan and Iraq respectively into consent to attack Iran.
Will Congress, with the Democrats holding the reins and with some recent Republican opposition to the Iraq fiasco, have the cojones to put a stop to Mad King George? Or will they continue to debate non-binding resolutions until he drags us all into the abyss?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

12:51 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home