The Draft Headed Toward Iran

I feel like a coal miner's canary.

Reinstate the draft. We need more soldiers! Our military is broken, worn to a frazzle. How can we possibly launch preemptive attacks against Iran and the newly labeled terrorists, "The Republican Guard" ?

General Lute was the one chosen to seed the draft idea so as not to tarnish golden boy, General David Petraeus. Just plant the seed in minds of Americans, stir up some discussion, reseed several weeks later, spread a thick layer of manure, wet it down, and watch it grow. Soon, because attentions spans are short, they'll be claiming the draft was always the answer to "fightin' 'em over there so's we don't have to fight 'em here", and line up to sacrifice their children in Bush's nuclear war.

The Bush propaganda machine has been busy, busy, busy! Iran has been the featured evil-doer on CNN for weeks now, FOX is foaming at the mouth in anticipation of the up and coming nuclear strikes against Iran, and eager Armegeddonists are so joyful that prerapture ejaculations have become the norm. It seems our heroes, Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney, have been working hard to end the Bush presidency with a bang.

Isn't it wonderful? Congress won't impeach the presiding bastards or cut military funds, but America has put nuclear war back on the table! The American War machine is HUNGRY for bodies and bundles of cash. What better way to feed it than to reinstate the draft and build more nukes?

The draft will insure that the poor, the working class, and the middle class are forced to sacrifice their children and other family members, while the ruling class is deferred from fighting in the wars it has created. Remember - George W. Bush was placed on the top of the Texas Air National guard list - someone else died in his place.

Now for the Nukes - America is already armed with 10,000 nuclear bombs and has spent $5 trillion on nuclear bombs since the 1940's. See here. The fusion-conscious Bush Administration is purposing to replace "last year's nukes" with a whole new arsenal. New nukes for old? How nice for the weapons industry. Currently our B52 bombers are being outfitted to deliver bunker buster nukes - to what end? Huge financial profits and a preemptive nuclear strike on Iran.

Donald Rumsfeld argued that bunker busters are mini nukes whose small size and precise underground delivery will cause very little collateral damage, if any. Please read the following...

"...bunker busters in Iran, or anywhere else for that matter, will vaporize hundreds of thousands of tons of earth, water and rock and send this radioactive soup downwind to kill and sicken whole populations. Those immediately downwind will die quickly, in hours or days. Those further downwind will take longer. The global incidences of cancers and disease will again rise markedly. The land downwind will remain contaminated and unusable for generations. If there were deep shelters, it has been postulated by the designers that the bunker busters would not penetrate deeply enough to affect them. I imagine that would initiate the attack theory of sending one nuke after another into the same hole. Picture the intensity of the radioactive disaster that would perpetrate on the area." Read entire article at Dissident here. For additional info check out the Union of Concerned Scientists - click on the Security tab at the top of the page.

A Rumsfeld Flip-Flop...
Reporter: "What are you trying to do with those bunker busters?"
Rumsfeld: "Kill people."
Reporter: "I meant what do you hope to find when you go to the place you dropped the bombs?"
Rumsfeld: "Dead people."

Yeah, Rummy, I see dead people, too. That's the problem

Here's my nightmare scenario... Cheney and the neoconservative cabal hype Iran's evil-doing to a crisis level and deploy the B52's to nuke 'em back to the stone age. The Iranians will so be thankful for the bunker buster bombing and the murder of their families, that they will swiftly return the gift to American ground forces in Iraq, and the carrier groups sitting in the Gulf. Massive American casualties will result but that is OK because the Pentagon has already written those soldiers and sailors off. They are sacrificial lambs, highly expendable, and will serve to fuel the propaganda storm that will blow across America. "Look what the inhuman Iranians have done to our troops? Our military has been depleted by heavy losses. More money! More nukes! Quick reinstate the draft! It's the only way to save our freedom!"

Let's hope the slumbering soccer moms of America wake up and take to the streets. This war is already five years old and were are about to expand it - your kids are going next - unless you stop it! Help us help you stop the perpetual Bush Wars.

The threat to American freedom is not in the Middle East. It is homegrown, occupies the White House, and is defiling the Constitution. IMPEACH! IMPEACH! IMPEACH!



Like I said, I feel like a coal miner's canary - singing the ill-wind blues.

..................Kitchen Window Woman..........