A little political

Some political tripe for you this fine morning. I've got visions of t-shirts dancing in my head again. one of them was after listening to NPR (I've been driving to work this week, so I get the news I haven't been getting) and there's a lot of buzz about Iran now. Predictably!

Who here reading this blog doesn't think that the rhetoric is building support for a hit on Iran? A lot of people say it's a bad idea, and rightfully so, but they're not the people who have their finger on the trigger. Those people, who went to Iraq, are still in power and there's still two years to serve out. Personally I hope someone succeeds in building a case for Bush's impeachment, he really is a terrible president.

Listening to the radio, they're detaining 'Iranian officials' who are doing trade with Iraq. This is clearly aimed at Iran, not at the security of Iraq, since Iraq needs to trade and become integrated with the region under the new "democratic" (read weak as water and failed puppet) regime if it is to build its economy. I love the fact that Jaques Chirac was brave enough to let out his real opinion on the situation, even if it's a little MAD-cold war era thinking.

As an aside, the MAD doctrine isn't the same anymore because Russia is no longer a communist threat, nor is China, which has trended increasingly capitalistic. These days it's much murkier since you have a cluster of unpredictable and uncontrollable countries and the question becomes how far can we go and how quickly in order to gain greater control of the region.

This is exactly where my thoughts went when I heard about the pressure on Iran's trade with Iraq, especially the cries of aiding and abetting rebels in Iraq. To me it smells like they found what they were looking for because they were looking for it, and granted I haven't done any fishing for more information but on the radio the official never says where the weapons are going, whether it's to Iraq the government we're trying to prop up, or to insurgents. Why wouldn't it be ok for Iraq, the sovereign state we support, to buy arms from Iran?

It is an agenda. We are the best, our way is best, and all you freaks and sheiks can put up or get out. The t-shirt: Bush is fascist.