But the U.S. will need a few more than the 160,000 troops currently deployed in Iraq. Those lucky freedom fighters ain’t going nowhere fast. The answer is easy. Blackwater hasn’t been kicked out of Iran yet even though they are unlikely to ever leave Iraq where they have been kicked out. Send Blackwater in. Bush had better ask for another $200 billion to pay for it. That should be easy. The congressional rubber stamp is ready and waiting… as always.

And when all else fails… as it surely will… The U.S. can institute mandatory conscription. But whatever they do… it cannot be called a “draft.” That’s too medieval! I like: “Compulsory Democratic Liberation Volunteering.” It’s a much better iSlogan.

What’s going to pay for the next U.S. Imperial Adventure? Iranian oil? Don’t make me laugh. Once the Revolutionary Guard is disbanded… for being a “terrorist organization” and out of work, they’ll have nothing better to do than… uh… become “terrorists” and take pot shots at anyone and everyone… particularly if they have a U.S. Flag flying from their Standards. That Iranian oil won’t flow into U.S pocketbooks any faster than the Iraqi oil.

So that means Bush, Cheney and their Congress of Fools will do what they always do… take out another mortgage on our country. Just how long do they think the sub-prime US borrower can defer payments before China forecloses? Best to brush up on your Mandarin. At least enroll your kids in Chinese language lessons. They’ll need the skill while they sneak into Shanghai illegally to wash dishes, dig coal, work in the rice paddies all day and do basic house keeping chores in order to pay for your twenty-four hour hospice care.

Oh, and let us not forget the other recent big Senatorial blunder (I know, there have been too many to count). In a “non-binding” resolution (that gets them off the hook on this one too) the Senate voted 75-23 to carve up Iraq into Sunni, Shi’ite and Kurdish regions. It reminds one of the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement. Once again the West has decided it has the power and right to hack up the Middle East as it sees fit. What, the Iraqis can’t do this themselves? It seems they’ve been making this decision despite the U.S. occupation for some time. So why do they need our approval or help?

Let’s try to ignore the fact that Iran will probably rush in and take over the Shi’ite region. In other words… the Lieberman-Kyl Amendment fits in nicely. Turkey will capture Kurdistan under the guise of defeating their pet “terrorist organization” the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, PKK, another desperate group defending their homeland from a stronger oppressor. What both Iran and Turkey really want is our oil… er… I mean Iraq’s oil.

Only God can imagine what the fate of the poor Sunni region will be, an extended Saudi Arabian welfare state?

How stupid can the members of congress be? Never mind. The question is rhetorical and the answer obvious.

After spending their entire careers studying the art of public manipulation and perception management, also known as “lying” and  “campaigning,” collectively congress has no scruples left. No common sense. No understanding of cause and effect. No respect for anyone or anything other than the all mighty… well, not so mighty anymore… dollar. Learning from history? Why bother? We make up our own reality and write our own versions of history as we go.

When it gets right down to it, few members of congress, especially the senate, would dare risk killing their shot at POTUS. That’s the big pie in the sky for them all. Now that the Executive Branch has been rendered a virtual dictatorship our “elected officials” must be drooling uncontrollably at the chunk of unitary executive meat hanging before their chompers. Who wants to be the next Caesar… or Augustus… or Tiberius… or Caligula, Claudius, Nero? We can expect a long sequence of mad Emperors lusting for more blood.

I give up. There is no point in deluding myself anymore. Congress wants war with Iran as badly as George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Norman Podhoretz, Rudy Giuliani, Hillary, Barack Obama, AIPAC or... the list goes on and on. All options may be on the table but our “esteemed” members of congress are quickly painting themselves into the corner furthest from that table leaving one option: War with Iran. Remember, congress answers to the call of the puppet masters holding the campaign contributions, powerful lobbies and big business… not We The People.
 

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