Throwing Mud: the first step towards War
Donald Rumsfeld, hardly an eloquent spokesman at the best of times, seems to be trying to stoop lower with each new sentence of bile that spews from his over-active mouth. Knowing that he needs to drum up support and ‘justification’ for a pre-emptive strike in Iran Donald has been busy recently highlighting the Iranian arms smuggling into Iraq to help the insurgency:
We know we’re finding Iranian weapons inside of the country… They don’t just get there by accidents. They don’t drive over the border
So why are they smuggling arms (if indeed they are at all, I trust no statement from any American government, as through the years history has proven them to be largely complete lies) to help an insurgency in Iraq? To take over of course! I mean it really is obvious, and a link we would all have made eventually, Donald’s just giving us a helping hand, he’s telling us that 1+1 = 3, when otherwise we would have struggled to get the right answer:
Rumsfeld… told reporters on the flight from Washington that “no one ought to be surprised” by the arms smuggling since Iran would like to replicate its own Islamic regime in Iraq.
“And we know that the system of government they have, with a handful of clerics running all over the place telling everybody what to do, is fundamentally inconsistent with the kind of constitution that is currently being drafted in Iraq,” he said.
So ignoring whatever constitution is being drafted in Iraq, America’s newest state, how does Donald differentiate from a ‘handful of clerics running all over the place telling everybody what to do’ with a handful of neo-cons running round telling everyone what to do (with a little help with some repressive ‘anti-terror’ laws of course)? I don’t think he can, and I don’t think he can blame Iran - even partially - for the insurgency in Iraq, when the only foreign military presence that is causing the insurgency is the military forces of the US and their stooges.
Still, the fact that the insurgency exists due to the invasion shows Donald that if you throw enough mud at a target - even if that mud is in fact bullshit - enough will stick to allow some good old American ‘democracy-spreading’ to take place.
August 23rd, 2005 at 1:30 pm
[...] So, some of the mud slung at Iran has proved to be bullshit, but will this report get as much press as the original allegations? It would be interesting to see if Bush will in time comment on the report once it becomes official, I suspect he will disregard it, perhaps with something along the lines of: ‘Well, the report is irrelevant really, it does not deter us from completing our mission “Operation Iranian Freedom”‘. [...]