The Bush Quartet

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As a country founded on the principle of majority rule, most of us have yet to accept that a small cabal of extremists infiltrated and wrested control of our government. Despite Bush & Co.'s violations of our trust, we remain incapable of believing they'd commit an act as "befuddling," according to the title of the incomparable Gareth Porter's latest article, as attack Iran.

To most of us, Iran is a thunder most distant. Besides, it's apparent to the public that we're too over-extended in not only Iraq, but Afghanistan, to address any threat it poses. Nevertheless, Porter, the rare journalist who turns the dryness of news writing into an asset rather than a disadvantage, reports in "Washington’s befuddling line on Iran":

As US and Iranian diplomats met in Baghdad on Tuesday for a second round of talks on Iraq, the domestic US political climate appeared decidedly more supportive of an aggressive US posture toward Iran than existed just a few months ago, reflecting the apparent triumph of the Bush administration's narrative on Iran's role in Iraq.

Droll of Porter to dignify their senseless scheme by calling it a "narrative." He continues:

Symptomatic of the toughening attitude in the US Congress toward Iran was the 97-0 vote in the Senate last week for the government of Iran "take immediate action" to end all forms of support it is providing to Iraqi militias and insurgents.

When, in fact, according to Porter, "Iran's strategic interests in Iraq are far more compatible with those of the United States than those of the Sunni regimes in the region with which the US has aligned itself."

You've got to hand it to Bush & Co... read more of Russ Wellen's post at Scholars & Rogues