DINAH LORD: Blogging is like crack to me...

I normally write historical fiction, painstakingly researched, endlessly edited, long books. In comparing the writing of historical manuscripts to this blog I am finding that writing a book is like a fine snifter of cognac, while blogging is like, crack. Or what I would imagine it to be.

Here's what happened. I couldn't leave Al Jazeera alone. First of all, front and center they had a big, fat pic of W with a Cindy Sheehan quote plastered over it. Talk about giving aid and comfort to our enemies. Bleh.

Then I came across this and realized that blogging must be like taking crack.
But I couldn't help myself.

I promise this is the last one for today.

That brings us to our favorite picture of Dick Cheney! and this article.

Who's the Secret Planner for the Coming War with Iran?

The U.S. Vice President has instructed the Air Force to start putting plans for an air strike on Iran's nuclear sites using the excuse of the next “terrorist attack”, according to CIA counterterrorism officer Philip Giraldi, now a partner in Cannistraro Associates.

Leave it to Al Jazeera, they go on to mention Scott Ritter. ugh. that child molesting nuclear weapons expert traitor. Listen to him dribble.

Last April, former Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter wrote an article saying that Air Force officers had told him that they were working on plans for war against Iran, that are supposed to be ready by June of this year. Ritter also stated that the invasion will come from U.S. bases in Azerbaijan, and that the U.S. is already flying drones in Iranian airspace. He writes: "Americans, and indeed much of the rest of the world, continue to be lulled into a false sense of complacency by the fact that overt conventional military operations have not yet commenced between the United States and Iran. As such, many hold out the false hope that an extension of the current insanity in Iraq can be postponed or prevented in the case of Iran. But this is a fool's dream."

Of course, Al Jazeera is incensed at that!

Why would Iran attack the U.S. when they have been doing everything possible to avoid a war that would absolutely devastate their country?
But the U.S. government is following the same script as with Iraq: ‘This Axis of Evil member has ties to “terrorism” and a nuclear weapons program, the UN won't act, so we have to attack them from the air, if not invade them to plant the flag of “liberty and democracy”’.

Wait one cotton picking minute! What about the Jooooos!!!!!

Again, there’s a convergence of interests between those who have a long-term energy strategy and those whose primary objective is protecting Israel.

They go on to point out:

Invading Iran through Iraq would be impossible, as Iraq’s Shiites would finally be unleashed against U.S. forces, who would then have to fight from both front and rear. Also a general Shiite uprising in Iraq would be a likely result of bombing Iran. If the U.S. attacked the Bushehr reactor, not only would radioactive particles blast into the air and fall back down to earth and cause great harm to the environment, but numerous Russians would also be killed. How is the U.S. going to react if the Russians in retaliation bombed a reactor full of Americans in, say, India?