Olbermann's Special Comment on Iran's nukes

I haven't posted a Keith Olbermann in a while, but this one is certainly worth sharing - a Special Comment on the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that states that Iran gave up its nuclear program some time ago.

Of course, the war-mongering administration wasn't going to take this news sitting down.

There's not much I can add to this one, other than to say I whole-heartedly agree. Anyone who has been even remotely paying attention ought to be frightened at the roads Bush would love to take us down. The only thing stopping the president and his war cabinet are (God help us) mostly spineless Democrats, and Americans who speak out against another war. I'll go to my grave believing that Bush would have already drummed up a war against Iran had the Democrats not retaken Congress last year. Bush may get his war yet, and I still say that most American's won't care, as long as someone else is doing the fighting.

Probably the only way there will be any sort of significant uprising/backlash against the Bush administration, no matter where we fight and no matter how flimsy the justification, is if there is a draft. Bush knows this, and that's why the military has a massive army of private contractors, who are answerable to no one but the Pentagon, and ultimately, Bush.

My favorite passage from the clip above:

A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency: an unapologetic war-monger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself.

It doesn't get much more succinct than that.

h/t Crooks & Liars

An outrageous War With Iran montage

This is a great compilation of the War With Iran Rhetoric, put together by the fine folks at Talking Points Memo.

It's beyond frustrating, and in fact downright frightening that the corporate media continues to talk about a war with Iran as if it's an inevitability. This should bring back plenty of unpleasant memories of the run-up to the war with Iraq, but no one seems to be listening.

What's happening now is exactly what the Bush administration hopes will happen - keep repeating over and over and over that a war with Iran is all but inevitable, and eventually everyone will treat it as a fait accompli. This is the PR phase of Bush's next war, and so far, there is no resistance.

I hear these talking heads on television talk about a war with Iran, and it's hard to not get cynical about the lack of meaningful political discourse in America today, and by that I mean every day people. I'm guilty of it, too - I feel like I don't do enough, and I'm changing that very soon. I've made a commitment to myself to become even more politically active - to make my voice heard loud and clear - that we don't desire another war, and that all diplomatic possibilities must be brought to bear on any situation in the Middle East, including Iran.

Of particular note in the video above is Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) - a walking, talking jackass in the Senate if there ever was one. He's the Senator who, while on one of John McCain's non-listening tours of Baghdad, snorted during a press conference, "I bought five rugs for five bucks!"

Whenever I hear his annoying voice and regurgitated White House talking points, I ask myself, "What in the hell are the people in South Carolina thinking?" I swear to God, there must be a five-foot string on the back of Graham's head, and all you have to to is pull it to hear five Bush talking points about the War in Iraq or the War on Terrorism.

South Carolina is currently suffering from one of the worst droughts on record, and it seems like that drought has also affected political coherence as well. How this moron ever made it to the U.S. Senate is beyond me.