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" A time will come when a

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:15:01 +0000

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" A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own": H.G. Wells

There is no indication that this prediction is coming true, though its reasoning is solid.

This gave me a much-needed

acanuck — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:20:35 +0000

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This gave me a much-needed chuckle:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/iran-worried-us-might-be-building-8500th-nuclear-w,27325/

It's mostly 'bout oil, but

A Guy Called LULU — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:35:15 +0000

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It's mostly 'bout oil,

but it's also 'bout the gas.

Mongers think they're gutsy,

When they blow it out their ass.

"Iran's oil and gas will

acanuck — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:17:11 +0000

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"Iran's oil and gas will greet us as liberators."

No one wants to engage

Donal — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:20:20 +0000

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No one wants to engage Iran—they want Iran's oil.

Salon has an artcle called

A Guy Called LULU — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:03:17 +0000

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Salon has an artcle called "The Neocon's Big Iran Lie.

The same ignorant war-mongering, self-satisfied pricks, speaking from a position of assumed safety as always, are using the same tactics, consisting largely of the same lies, for the same purpose, justifying, and thereby selling, the start of another bombing campaign. Many are buying into it.

The U.S. should carry out limited strikes on Iran’s key nuclear facilities, Kroenig argued, and could “reduce the political fallout of military action by building global support for it in advance.” “By building such a consensus in the lead-up to an attack and taking the outlined steps to mitigate it once it began,” Kroenig wrote, “the United States could avoid an international crisis and limit the scope of the conflict.”

Emphasis added. There are plenty who carry on the task of building support for military action and all is fair for those who seem to love more war. Truth was long ago a victim of collateral damage.

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/10/the_neocons_big_iran_lie/

As with the calls for war against Iraq, what all of these pieces share is a shockingly blithe attitude toward the likely costs of such a war, and a failure to seriously grapple with the consequences. (Though, it must be said, Niall Ferguson’s stands out for the clubby, back-slapping brio with which he advocates the “creative destruction” of Iran. Omelettes, eggs, right?)