Scary As Shit

(Cartoon Via Big Fat Blog)


(Via the Daily Kos)

I have a friend who is an LSO on a carrier attack group that is planning and staging a strike group deployment into the Gulf of Hormuz. (LSO: Landing Signal Officer- she directs carrier aircraft while landing) She told me we are going to attack Iran. She said that all the Air Operation Planning and Asset Tasking are finished. That means that all the targets have been chosen, prioritized, and tasked to specific aircraft, bases, carriers, missile cruisers and so forth.

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She seemed lost. The first time in my life I have ever heard her sound off rhythm, or unsure of why she is doing something. She knows that there is something rotten in the Naval Command and she, like many of her associates are just hoping that the election brings in someone new, some new situation, or something.

"Yes. We're gong to hit Iran, big time. Whatever political discussion that are going in is window dressing and perhaps even a red herring. I see what's going on below deck here in the hangars and weapons bays. And I have a sick feeling about how it's all going to turn out."

This is truly scary. Our leaders are preparing to flex their muscles again, and no one seems willing to stop them. not the media (who aren't reporting this, by in large), not the Democrats (who act more like they want to kiss Bush's ass than represent the people who elected them), not the military (who are being purged of the opponents to the unilateral approach to military action). In this instance there's not even the pretence of trying to whip up some international support. It's an administration who does what it wants to do regardless of the consequences to the world or our own citizens.

Is this really what it has come to? Is this what we want our nation to do? For myself, I say no, no, a thousand times NO! We will not get off so easy this time (and I don't think we got off very easy in Iraq, which still drags on). BushCo wipes its ass on the Constitution and on the lives of those it puts in peril. We need to speak up and stop this madness.