Stop Talking About Iran

The crawl on CNN: US Military: Iran training insurgents to assemble weapons...Iran training extremists.

OK, so what? I mean that, so what? I would expect nothing less. Iran is Shi'Ite and they are supporting their Shi'ite comrades. My question is why do we keep hearing about it? Could it be that the Bush administration is spinning the truth again in a build up to an extended war? Mmmmmmm, could be.

Because here's the deal. The Saudis, not the Iranians, have been training more of our enemies longer and we do nothing. Absolutely nothing. Our president skips through the Rose Garden with their king, our Vice President gets summoned over to Saudi Arabia and drops everything but his pacemaker and goes, and Bush 41 gets quite a bit of money as a consultant in the country.

Of course, this is the country that the people that hurt us on 9/11 were raised. This is where the madrassas that teach the extremist wahabi form of Islam that says, hey, go kill Americans, Allah will bless you are allowed to flourish. And let's not forget, the majority of casualties in Iraq are from Sunni insurgents. And who are the Sunni's comrades? Say it with me, the Saudis. So if any country is truly contributing to the global war on terror, to casualties in Iraq, training terrorists and more, it's not Iran, it's Saudi Arabia. But no, our military is focusing on Iran because the man in the Oval wants them to and that, again, is a misuse of power and a downright un-American thing to do.

So don't buy it. Iran is not our enemy. Are they are friend? No, their government is not. But their people, on the whole, particularly their young people don't hate us. Unless we give them reason to, like continue posturing for war, pointing missiles at them, finding reasons to attack. The fact is Iraq is a regional war. Everybody in that region is invested some way or another. Supplying arms, money, support of some kind to some one. Yes, some are supporting us, but others are not. And of course, that's the rule. In the region you must support the United States and its efforts or you are bad and should be destroyed. Sounds so imperialistic, so British, really, pre-1800s.

And the disconnect is growing so huge every day. As news stations focus on thing like Don Imus, which are fun, but not news, the government is going about its business. The surge is not, will not, cannot work. They are stretching our national guard thin with new deployments. There's talk of extending, again, tours of duties for the Army, they offering sizeable cash payouts to make people stay in... in other words, they're taxing an already overtaxed system. And for what? If you're waiting for an answer, forget it. I truly am asking, for what?

We, the People have said NO! to the Iraq war. Let's also send a preemptive strike to the White House in the form of a giant NO! when it comes to Iran. The door out of Iraq is not through Iran. Don't worry about them having a bomb in a year, worry about the countries that have one now that hate us, and there's more than a few these days. Don't worry about their leader wanting to wipe out the Jews in theory, worry about the tens of thousand Iraqis we've already killed and the tens of thousands dying in the Darfur. Prioritize in a hurry.

And focus! Iran is not our enemy. Again, Iran is not our enemy. Just because they are not our friends doesn't mean they are a threat. The midget running things is crazy but not stupid. He'll no more attack us, sell a nuke to someone that would or bomb Israel than I'd sleep with Pamela Lee. He knows, as do I, it's suicide. And while many want to die in the name of Allah, he's too egotistical to be one of them.

There are many things on this planet that don't like us, but we don't kill them all. There are many things on this planet that aid or would aid in our destruction, and we don't wipe them all out (ants come to mind). Let's focus on rebuilding America from the inside out and stop finding new countries to invade. That is tired, all played out, we're over it.

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