Part of me can't quite believe this is happening

But then I'm part of the "reality-based" community. What the "faith-based" foreign policy crowd is doing right now is not looking good. Robert Dreyfuss in Deja Vu All Over Iran TomPaine.com 03/14/06:

The pieces are falling into place for Operation Regime Change II, this time in Iran. You'd think, given how badly it went the first time, and how utterly unpredictable a showdown with Iran would be, that the Bush administration would have at least changed its m.o.—but no. Shaking his head in New York, where he was attending United Nations Security Council discussions on Iran, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said bluntly: "It looks so déjà vu." He ridiculed the idea of sanctions on Iran as useless and ineffective, and he called the U.S. push for a showdown over Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program a "self-fulfilling prophecy."

He's right. Even John Bolton, the neoconservative saber-rattler who represents the United States at the U.N., agrees. Said Bolton, when asked about Lavrov’s comment: "If that is déjà vu, then so be it, but that is the course we are on in an effort to get Iran to reverse its decision to acquire nuclear weapons."

This is also creepy. It's easy to see that some of this money, maybe most of it that's not siphoned off by scamsters for themselves, will wind up being our tax dollars being spent to create propaganda to persuade ourselves to support war with Iran:

Then there are the exiles. The Bush administration, backed once again by a bloodthirsty Republican Congress — with the same cast of characters, led once again by Sen. Sam Brownback — is planning to spend $75 million to support Iranian "democrats" and to back Iranian exile television stations. And, according to a recent State Department planning document, the United States is busily setting up anti-Iranian intelligence and mobilization centers in Dubai, Istanbul, Ankara, Adana, Tel Aviv, Frankfurt, London and Baku to work with "Iranian expatriate communities." I wonder how many Ahmad Chalabis they can find in those places. Dozens, I’d guess. More déjà vu.

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