The latest Zogby Poll released last week reports that 52% of the American public supports going to war with Iran.
No, really.
I’m sorry…hasn’t ANYONE been paying attention for the LAST FOUR YEARS? Is the average American so fucking stupid that they will believe the exact same lies that they were told the last time, even after every single thing that was said has been proven to be false OVER AND OVER AGAIN? I am so flabbergasted at this that I can’t even work up a decent rant. It’s unimaginable to me. When I read that story last week, my jaw just about dropped three feet.
Lincoln said “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” I guess he was right.
The poll goes on to say that even more people believe that an American attack on Iran will happen before George bush leaves office. This is a different opinion than thinking that staging such an attack is a good idea. I do happen to think we will probably attack Iran just in time for next year’s elections, but you’d better believe that I do not think it is even remotely a good idea.
Over the weekend, Pervez Musharraf usurped whatever last fragments of democracy were to be found in Pakistan, sounding frighteningly like George Bush as he talked about “activist judges” and fighting the “war on terror” as he suspended the Pakistani constitution and arrested their Supreme Court. Pakistan even already has a nuclear arsenal, and they’ve been spending all the money we’ve been throwing at them to get ready to go to war with India, even as they support the Taliban AND let Osama Bin Laden hide in their country. And we are willing to go to war with a country that has half the military spending of any other country in the region because there’s a “threat” they might make a nuclear weapon?
I understand that there’s a hardcore 25-30% of people who would support Bush if he ate babies on live television, but just what the fuck has to happen to the 30% of people in this country who are stupid enough to go along with this? AGAIN?!?!?
It really just shows you Americans just can’t learn from their mistakes. Every time it’s going to be different. This time, when we aggressively attack a country, it’ll work out. This time, when we prop up a dictator, it’ll end well.
(thanks for the link, by the way.)