We’re supposed to believe that a so-called Iranian manufactured rocket propelled grenade would have a United States date format silk screened onto the munition? As any good computer geek knows, the rest of the world uses DD/MM/YY date formats.
After “evidence” like this provided by our government before (see Gulf of Tonkin, Colin Powell’s UN presentation), color me skeptical. But watch our media whip the country into a frenzy pushing for the bombing of Iran, since there’s no ground troops left. What we’re seeing in slow motion here is a repeat of Nixon’s widening of the Vietnam war into Cambodia and Laos, to have “peace with honor”.
Meanwhile, in the real world, more American troops and Iraqi civilians continue to die for a war based on a neo-con wet dream. You know the one, with soldiers greeted with flowers, and democracy springing forth from Babylonian gardens.
The clock has run out, there is no overtime period here, no Michael Jordan last second shot. When former National Security Agency directors are saying that it’s time to go, it’s time to go.
The question is, will the Democratic majorities in Congress provide the necessary leadership to push for withdrawal? Again, color me skeptical:
Yet the Democratic-controlled Congress is clearly not going to attempt to exercise its power to compel the end of this war — at least not any time soon. And, with some exceptions, there seems to be very few objections over that failure, very little clamoring that they do more. Why is that? What accounts for the seeming willingness — even among more vocal war opponents and bloggers — to give Democrats a pass on actually ending the war (as opposed to enacting symbolic, inconsequential resolutions)?
We’re at the point when non-binding resolutions will not do. When VPOTUS claims that he’s not subject to the same checks as the Executive branch, since he claims that he’s the Fourth Branch of government, nothing less than impeachment will do.
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