If You Liked the Iraq War, You'll Love the Iran War

you liked the war in Iraq, you probably love the idea of going to war with Iran.

Why?

It's the same agenda from the exact same people who took us into Iraq just over a decade ago.

The hawks on the right keep crying that we need a "better deal."

They say that this deal will help Iran to support terrorism in the Middle East - and that ultimately this will enable Iran as a regional power and destabilize the region.

And even if Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon -- the right wing is ready to whip up any sort of weaponized boogieman to sell their case.

This time it's "Electromagnetic Pulse" weaponry, or EMP weapons, that the warhawks in Congress want you to be scared of. If you're not already scared of the nuclear bomb.

But in 2002 and 2003 -- it was a simpler time -- it was just months after 9/11 and Americans were primed to be scared and ready to go to war just to feel safe.

All the administration had to talk about then were some vague -- and non-existent -- "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.

And they were even parroting the same arguments for war.

Take a look at Netanyahu testifying to Congress in 2002 about why the United States needs to invade Iraq.

Riiiiight. So Iraq and Iran were sponsoring terrorism -- weren't listening to the international community -- and both were hotbeds of anti-US sentiments.

And as you saw at the end of that clip -- even back in 2002 -- Netanyahu and the war zealots on the right in the country were stoking the same vague, but visceral, fears about both Iraq and Iran.

But George W. Bush and his administration found an easier way to stoke vague and visceral fears.

Remember when they declared that Iraq and Iran make up two-thirds of the so-called "Axis of Evil."