Operation Extreme Redundancy is back in full-swing. The government is rehashing what it used to get people supporting the Iraq War a few years ago, and this time, they're using it for Iran.
Alarm bells over an emerging nuclear threat in the Gulf, UN credibility at stake, a fervent call to a coalition of the willing: the United States has been there before.
As Washington presses its drive to thwart Iran's suspected efforts to build a nuclear bomb, it is turning increasingly to the same diplomatic rhetoric used in the runup to the Iraq war.
Nobody here is talking seriously about a full-scale invasion of Iran like the 2003 move to oust
Saddam Hussein for allegedly developing weapons of mass destruction that were never found.
When asked about the possibility, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has a stock answer: "Iran is not Iraq. I know that's what's on people's minds. The circumstances are different."
Nevertheless, US officials appear in much the same position as they were in 2002: stalwart defenders of the nuclear order scouting world support for their cause, uncompromising souls in a compromising multilateralist universe.
With the latest nuclear crisis coming to a head after Iran blew off a UN Security Council injunction to halt uranium enrichment, the United States is again showing signs of frustration with the world body.
Iran is not Iraq? Sure it is.
Prequel to Iraq: Saddam is flippant about his dealings with the UN in regards to biological and chemical weapons (among other things), the UN looks like a doe caught in the headlights, the UN does nothing at the moment because no one is willing to go to war, the US government forgets that it is NOT the entire UN, the US government goes in and says, "You aren't taking care of Afghanistan, Iraq, blah blah, yadda yadda to our specifications, so we're going to take care of them for you. You just be ready to thank us when we win," and the US goes to war with everyone hating us.
Prequel to Iran: Mahmoud is flippant about his dealings with the UN in regards to the enrichment of uranium and whether Iran has nuclear weapons or not, the UN looks like a doe caught in the headlights once again, the UN does nothing at the moment because everyone is afraid of possibly getting nuked, the US government forgets again that it is NOT the entire UN, the US government goes in and says, "You aren't taking care of Iran, blah blah, yadda yadda to our specifications, so we're going to take care of Mahmoud for you. You just have the champagne ready for us when we return home as the victorious forces," and the US goes to war with everyone still hating us (except this time, they're planning for this war in secret because everyone is so in love with Dubya anymore).
Sound familiar?
Tags: [Iraq], [Iran], [Iraq is not Iran, supposedly], [Iran pre-war scenario is the same as pre-war Iraq scenario], [Bush], [Rice], [United Nations], [US is secretly planning war with Iran, but they deny it]
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