OpEdNews - Diary: War with Iran, might it be just what we need?

A look at a possible war with Iran from the view that perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad thing, if only for the lesson it might hold for the asshole in the White House.

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There has been much in the news, and here on OpEdNews about the coming war with Iran. DUBYA and the rest of the toadies in his administration have been playing the saber ratting game with Persia for a few months now. DUBYA has been spewing the same kind of lame-brained rhetoric towards Iran that he spewed at the dawning of making a Mess Of Potamia (thanks to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). I personally have signed numerous petitions from numerous on line political action committees on the topic of a war with Iran. Military experts say it would be military suicide. Political experts say it would be political suicide. Others say it would be our official entry into World War III. Others don't know what to think, but smell a rat coming from the direction of Washington DC. Then there's myself. Frankly my friends, I am overloaded by the very thought. As a matter of fact, It's dealing with the worries about the possibility of another front on the so-called war on terror that made me pull back from current events, and writing about them. Perhaps it was the realization that for all the words I write, all the petitions I sign, and the depth of my concern, there's not a fucking thing I can do to stop DUBYA from making yet another tragic mistake, moronic blunder, ego-fueled fuck up, or whatever you want to call starting another war of choice with the Middle East. Last night, I watched a show on the Dark Ages on the Discovery Channel. I realized that the Middle East has been in a state of more or less unending war since Rome conquered it, and perhaps even before then. The rise of Islam just made sure that there would never be a true and lasting peace in that region. Into that eternally losing poker game, we have thrown ourselves. We have antied up with the lives of three thousand soldiers, and more to surely come. Then, when we have a weak hand; when losing on both our chosen fronts; we decide it's time to bluff and throw even more chips (soldiers) into the pot and dare to call for yet another fight on another front with another batch of people who hate our guts simply because we have guts. It's either the acme of foolishness on our parts, or the height of blind, ignorant arrogance to even consider fucking with this already stirred-up hornet's nest that is the Middle East. In any event, it is clearly a bad idea to even consider that a war with Iran would be anything but a completely losing proposition. But while this reality seems to be a fact that needs no further proof to people with fully functional brains than just taking a cursory look at the Mess Of Potamia, our Chimp In Chief, DUBYA seems to think we would have a real chance of making a difference by attacking Iran. I could go into the level of ignorance required to come to such a hair-brained conclusion, but that would mean I'd be writing until next week, and then some. Suffice it to say, only an idiot would think we have a chance of doing anything in Iran but raising the aggregate number of men and women sent into the military sausage grinder. Oh, I'm sorry, we also have a chance of pissing off enough people that we will have another terrorist attack on our soil; one that will make 9/11 look like a flyswatter hitting a cockroach. My father had a saying that, although I hated it at the time, it always proved to be true: "Those who don't listen will feel!" In DUBYA's case, clearly, he doesn't want to listen. For being a draft-dodging coward, shit kicking faux Texan from Kennebunkport, Maine, reputedly closeted screaming bisexual who graduated from Harvard with a C- average, he sure seems to think he knows which side of the bread contains the peanut butter. After destroying numerous businesses, and dragging Texas down the toilet, one might think he'd catch the clue bus and realize that perhaps he doesn't know what he thinks he knows. HAH! It is to laugh. In DUBYA's quest to prove that he deserves something akin to respect, he's done nothing but destroy America's image on the world stage. In his blind run to prove that he has more courage than his "military" history bears out, he's turned himself into "the decider". In his unwillingness to listen to people who actually know shit from Shine-ola, he has destabilized perhaps the only truly stable part of the Middle East, Iraq. In other words, he has yet to grab a handful of Q-Tips to dig the obviously huge wax clog that prevents him from being able to hear the words of people with more than pith between their ears. So, since he's obviously unwilling to listen, perhaps feeling will finally get through to him. Yes, I know, it will be us who will feel the fallout from a war with Iran first, but he will also feel. When our country sits in a pile of smoldering ruin, and there are no more political toadies to lick at his boot heels, when he's finally forced to see the death and destruction his stupidity has wrought because it's right there at his front door, then he will no longer be able to deny what has happened, and who made it happen. If he does get his wish, and we get involved in another war in the Middle East, it's a surety that we will have as much chance of winning it as we have of winning the current debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq. Perhaps then his much needed dose of humility will get through his incredibly thick skull. Of course, by then, it will be way, WAY too late. Some people really need to feel because they absolutely refuse to listen. I think DUBYA qualifies as one of those kinds of people. Then his legacy in history will be complete. He will shine through as the most inept, moronic, arrogant, and criminally negligent president to have ever darkened the Oval Office. He will have punched his own ticket and insured that he will always be looked upon with much deserved derision by future generations. All it would take for him to stem the tide of destruction that lives in his wake would be to admit he was wrong, and start taking real steps in rectifying the damage. I have a better chance of growing a uterus or making a baby than I do of living to see DUBYA admit he was wrong. So let's stop rattling the saber towards Persia and just do "it". If DUBYA thinks he has balls as big as Texas, then for fuck's sake, let's get to it! We have the military hardware in the area. We have ships in the Persian Gulf. We have lots of un-armored Humvees, depleted uranium bullets, and other tools of destruction within farting distance of Iran. Let's just move everything over a bit and turn Tehran into a glowing, nuclear glass ashtray. I mean, come on, DUBYA thinks we can do it. It's not like he's ever been wrong before. Blessed be! Pappy