In his latest testimony to the Senate, CENTCOM commander General David Petraeus reiterated, predictably enough, that Afghanistan is in for a “tough year,” but the more interesting portion of his testimony focused on Iran.
At the same time, Gen. Petraeus claimed this was because Iran’s efforts had been “delayed a bit.” He called for more international pressure against Iran, and declined to answer questions about a possible attack plan against the nation.
The rhetoric was, as always, telling. The questions centered around Iran’s supposed production of a nuclear weapon even though the nation is only a month into a very modest effort to enrich uranium to the 20 percent needed for medical purposes.
The production of a weapon would require Iran to enrich virtually all of its uranium to 90 percent, something Iran isn’t even accused of attempting to do in small quantities. Administration officials expressed doubts last month as to whether Iran was even capable of producing the 20 percent enriched uranium, let alone the 90 percent.
But the Senate discussion did not focus on any of the inconvenient realities of Iran’s civilian nuclear program, with its program still focused chiefly on 3.5 percent enriched uranium production for energy generation. The weapons program, which the most recent National Intelligence Estimate says simply does not exist, is taken as a matter of course, and the only debate is about how much to escalate against Iran to punish them for what, by all accounts, they couldn’t even be doing if they tried.
The war mongers will find a way to hit Iran for any reason. The jackboots are hitting the ground in the good 'ol USofA. Now that its a defacto police state as they announced to the general public that they can assassinate American citizens at home or abroad if they feel they are a threat to the so called "freedom" the plebes are currently enjoying. If they do attack watch for martial law to be enacted quickly and with an iron fist. America has become what it fought against for generations…maybe that was the plan all along. Corporate America continues to rape the citizens with their culture of entitlement….it won't be long now that the so called democracy in the US will be completely and utterly dead. How sad.
The propaganda here is far more shocking than the Iraq war propaganda was. It's nothing but a pack of lies and distortions that barely pretends to be anything more than that, but which has been repeated endlessly – with virtually no counterargument coming from the supposedly anti-war Left – so that now it is simply parroted without question as water transformed miraculously into propaganda wine.
Take a look at that map. You will see that there are American troops fighting in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It would be like Iranian troops occupying Canada and Mexico in comparison.