Armageddon

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The Ultimate Consequences of Bush’s Coming War Crimes: “I recoil from my own logic. No sane person can look at the possibility of such horrors and not shiver with revulsion. But recent history shows that there are no sane people making these decisions. When sanity again prevails in the White House, I will gladly dismiss the unthinkable as impossible. For now, I fear Armageddon.” — Jon Steinberg (Raw Story) The short version: Iranian military capabilities would make an American fleet sitting ducks. We need to question our assumption that even Bush is not crazy enough not to find that a deterrent, though. Given his administration’s inherent immorality, its need for a war to resurrect jingoistic support, belief in preemption and Manichaean convictions about the Axis of Evil,

“Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Americans would die in a day as the Fifth Fleet was sacrificed. Bush would see no disincentive there — the thousands of American soldiers killed so far have not altered his calculus. Iranian casualties from the U.S response could reach into the millions, but there are Americans who would welcome such a result if they believed Iran attacked us first. 125 billion barrels of proven oil reserves — ten percent of the world total — would be wiped out, which would perhaps double gasoline prices overnight. General Motors and Ford would sink absent massive bailouts our resurgent spendthrift emperor will be happy to disburse. Exxon and its ilk will cry all the way to the bank. Many thousands of square miles of Iran would become uninhabitable for thousands of years, dwarfing Chernobyl in scope, but what right-thinking Christian would want to live there anyway?”

The only preemptive power the American people have would be an explosive antiwar outburst dwarfing the Vietnam-era movement, encompassing all outraged right-thinking Americans and bringing the war machine to a halt with acts of resistance, disobedience and rage. Before it is too late. Do we have it in us?