From B. Rubin at Informed Comment, here, and for those who missed the WeeklyStandard's case FOR war, in this Kimberly Kagan report: "Iran's Proxy War Against The Us and the Iraqi Government", here.
"...But this apparently is just test marketing, like Cheney's 2002 speech. After all "from a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August." Today I received a message from a friend who has excellent connections in Washington and whose information has often been prescient. According to this report, as in 2002, the rollout will start after Labor Day, with a big kickoff on September 11. My friend had spoken to someone in one of the leading neo-conservative institutions. He summarized what he was told this way:
"They [the source's institution] have "instructions" (yes, that was the word used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don't think they'll ever get majority support for this--they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is "plenty.""
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AND HOW WOULD SUCH A WAR BE FOUGHT? WITH TROOPPS? HOW WOULD IT BE PAID FOR? BY CONGRESS? I DON'T THINK SO. ON THE OTHER HAND MY QUESTIONS WOULD STOP THE LUNACY COMING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND OVP.
no way it would happen. i really think the American people would revolt (literally, and finally) against the Cheney White House. (like with torches and pitchforks)
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