Seymour Hersh's New Yorker article The Redirection describes Bush's new efforts against Iran and puts them in a large context of backing Sunni's against Shiites. He quotes Martin Indyk, of the Saban Center: "The President sees the region as divided between moderates and extremists, but our regional friends see it as divided between Sunnis and Shia. The Sunnis that we view as extremists are regarded by our Sunni allies simply as Sunnis."
We also heard this weekend that US generals 'will quit' if Bush orders Iran attack.
George Lakoff writes in the Huffington Post The Words None Dare Say: Nuclear War. He desribes how Iran's nuclear facilities are far underground, which conventional weapons can't reach. So if we do bomb them with the intention of destroying their nuclear capability, we'd need to use a bunker buster, a "small nuke. I wrote about bunker busters almost a year ago. By the way the test described in that post was cancelled last week. Lakoff wants it to be clear, when anyone (he quotes Republicans and Democrats) says "all options are on the table" they are talking about pre-emptively using nuclear weapons against another nation. He calls that nuclear war and doesn't want a euphemism used for it.
Oh and those bombs found in Iraq the administration told us were made in Iran? Turns out, not so much. A raid in southern Iraq on Saturday seems to have complicated the case. There, The Wall Street Journal reports troops "uncovered a makeshift factory used to construct advanced roadside bombs that the U.S. had thought were made only in Iran." The Wall Street Journal no less.
When do we get to impeach these people?
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