Let Slip the Dogs of Iraniraqistan

Despite- or perhaps because- the Germans keep busting their terrorist wanna-bees before they grow into the real thing, Germany suggests the IAEA may be right after all, and refuses to willingly Coalition in the latest full frontal facade on Terra. Let's watch how FOX disinforms about this development.

Germany — a pivotal player among three European nations to rein in Iran's nuclear program over the last two-and-a-half years through a mixture of diplomacy and sanctions supported by the United States — notified its allies last week that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel refuses to support the imposition of any further sanctions against Iran that could be imposed by the U.N. Security Council.

The announcement was made at a meeting in Berlin that brought German officials together with Iran desk officers from the five member states of the Security Council. It stunned the room, according to one of several Bush administration and foreign government sources who spoke to FOX News, and left most Bush administration principals concluding that sanctions are dead.

The Germans voiced concern about the damaging effects any further sanctions on Iran would have on the German economy — and also, according to diplomats from other countries, gave the distinct impression that they would privately welcome, while publicly protesting, an American bombing campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities.

Ah, yes, FOX groks the Bu$hCo fratboy version of diplomacy. Dear Leader knows Merkel says no but knows she really wants it. Backrubs and all.

...Germany's withdrawal from the allied diplomatic offensive is the latest consensus across relevant U.S. agencies and offices, including the State Department, the National Security Council and the offices of the president and vice president. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, the most ardent proponent of a diplomatic resolution to the problem of Iran's nuclear ambitions, has had his chance on the Iranian account and come up empty.

Political and military officers, as well as weapons of mass destruction specialists at the State Department, are now advising Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the diplomatic approach favored by Burns has failed and the administration must actively prepare for military intervention of some kind. Among those advising Rice along these lines are John Rood, the assistant secretary for the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation; and a number of Mideast experts, including Ambassador James Jeffrey, deputy White House national security adviser under Stephen Hadley and formerly the principal deputy assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs.

Consequently, according to a well-placed Bush administration source, "everyone in town" is now participating in a broad discussion about the costs and benefits of military action against Iran, with the likely timeframe for any such course of action being over the next eight to 10 months, after the presidential primaries have probably been decided, but well before the November 2008 elections.

The discussions are now focused on two basic options: less invasive scenarios under which the U.S. might blockade Iranian imports of gasoline or exports of oil, actions generally thought to exact too high a cost on the Iranian people but not enough on the regime in Tehran; and full-scale aerial bombardment...

[thanks, vastleft]

David Addington knows the Iranian people would much rather have a full scale aerial bombardment, maybe with a few of Darth Rumsfeld's bunker-buster nukes thrown in, than a blockade of imported oil from places like, I dunno, Iraq?



There is no doubt that Darth Cheneyburton's Cheney, his Padwan-learner Addington has the best interests of the Free Market of the Flat World in mind.

There is no doubt a good firebombing- hell, might as well make it nukular- leveling Tehran, killing tens of millions of people, devastating the Middle East with fallout and by extention the economy of the world in its blowback repercussions on the export of Iranian oil would be preferable to any other solution.

After all, these are the best NeoConservative minds that gave us the Endless War on Terra in response to the criminal acts of fringe group of the Royal House of Saud originally organized by the Central Intelligence Agency under the direction of the Reagan/ Bu$h administration.

These are the thousand points of laser light that ignored the stated aims of this ronin spy proxy, hushed the FBI, CIA, and NSA agents that warned them about said renegades, muddled the response six years ago, and set us to fight instead a nation totally unrelated to the 9/11 attack but much closer to the financial interests of the Company and far more profitable for them to fight.

We know they have the best interests in mind. Their own.