CommonDreams: Casus Belli, Anyone?

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Published on Monday, February 19, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
Casus Belli, Anyone?
Prediction: This nation will go to war with Iran, and it will do so with the full consent of Congress.
by John Atcheson

Once more to the battlements we are marched. Once more our passions are inflamed by rumor, innuendo and lies.

Sunni insurgents supported by Saudi oil money are responsible for some 90% of US casualties, but our president, the ethical infant, points to Iran.

And once more the Main Stream Media idly mumbles the infant’s mantra, as he sets the dogs of war nipping at our heels.

Prediction: This nation will go to war with Iran, and it will do so with the full consent of Congress.

Oh, we will not preemptively attack. No. Instead, we will respond to an Iranian provocation which is all but inevitable. Why? Because the infant is making it so.

Look at the by now familiar pattern.

First, the administration has begun to "catapult the propaganda" making the case that Iran is an "evildoer" equipping our enemies with armor-piercing weapons. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0219-26.htm