What do you do if you’re Bush, and you know that even hardcore, American Taliban conservatives are against your proposed escalation of the war in Iraq?
What do you do when you’ve got no support left?
That’s easy — You start a war with Iran.
American forces just stormed the Iranian Consulate in Irbil, Iraq, and have taken six staff captive. Rice has announced that the US will take action against any country seeking to destabilise Iraq.
Holy shit.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Holy shit is right.
He is looking for nothing less than confligration to bring the fucking apocalypse.
D.
What. In. The. Fuck.
Just fucking wonderful…
[facepalm]
Holy effing cow.
I’m also disturbed that you had to link to articles on the BBC site. I haven’t yet checked US “news” but I’m assuming that no one here is reporting any of this.
?!?!?
Fuckin’ insane.
Nothing on CNN or MSNBC.
Nope. Not a word of it. (At least that I’ve found). Meanwhile, It’s a lead story at the BBC.
Thank you for the heads up!
Just goes to show that if you want actual journalism inside of your country, you have to look elsewhere.
I’m getting too old for this shit.
It’s amazing how we spin stories – check out CNN’s downplaying.
“But the official disputes accounts from Iran that the troops broke open a consulate gate and conducted a raid.
“No shots were fired. No altercation ensued,” the U.S. official. “It was a knock on the door and ‘Please come out.'”
Whyyyy?! Ugh! How can someone who claims to be so full of “family values” set out to deliberately obliterate every family on the planet?
NPR had it this morning, but they weren’t playing it up either.
How exactly does dropping troops onto the roof via heliocopter count as “knocking on the door”?!!!
Wow.
And I have had the WGN noon news on for 45 minutes now and there is NO mention of this at all.
The CBC has an article about it.
Last time I checked, an air assault team repelling onto the roof with automatic weapons isn’t a “knock on the door.”
If it is, remind me to never ask the U.S. government to come to one of my parties and just “knock on the door” to come in.
It’s on the front page of the NYT now, right about the news about David Beckham.
The article is not as oh my god as the BBC, but it isn’t downplaying it, either.
Re: Rice has announced that the US will take action against any country seeking to destabilise Iraq …um, does that mean it will take action against itself? ‘Cause, brother, we’re the biggest destabilizing force over there.
Not to downplay anything her, but a consulate is not an embassy so technically it was not an act of war. It is pretty damn close and really disgusting.