I don’t know who Frank Rich hates most in his Sunday editorial in the NYT: Dick Cheney and the mob of neocon dead-enders, crazy Bush or hedging and straddling Hillary Clinton.

These are all adjectives used in his column, most of them in the first paragraph, but of course Hillary’s descriptives come in the middle and at the end as does President Bush’s.

WHEN President Bush started making noises about World War III, he only confirmed what has been a Democratic article of faith all year: Between now and Election Day he and Dick Cheney, cheered on by the mob of neocon dead-enders, are going to bomb Iran.

But what happens if President Bush does not bomb Iran? That is good news for the world, but potentially terrible news for the Democrats. If we do go to war in Iran, the election will indeed be a referendum on the results, which the Republican Party will own no matter whom it nominates for president. But if we don’t, the Democratic standard-bearer will have to take a clear stand on the defining issue of the race. As we saw once again at Tuesday night’s debate, the front-runner, Hillary Clinton, does not have one.

Oh, so the column is about us going or not going to war with Iran. With 14 months to go in the Bush Administration this Neanderthal Man thinks Bush will start a war with Iran and stretch our troops even thinner just so he can hand it off to the next president, who will surely be a Democrat if he does start such war.

And if there is no war with Iran Hillary loses because she has no defining issues of the race. How perceptive he is since her big loss last Tuesday night. Before that she hung the moon and the stars.

If Bush doesn’t start a war with Iran, it will be good news for the world but bad news for the Democrats. Huh?

Have we at last come to the point where we are rooting for a war while at war so the Democratic party can win the White House? Is this the only reason Rich can see for a Democrat to win? Not on the issues dear to most voters’ hearts, but on a war so his favored party can control the White House?

The reason so many Democrats believe war with Iran is inevitable, of course, is that the administration is so flagrantly rerunning the sales campaign that gave us Iraq. The same old scare tactic — a Middle East Hitler plotting a nuclear holocaust — has been recycled with a fresh arsenal of hyped, loosey-goosey intelligence and outright falsehoods that are sometimes regurgitated without corroboration by the press.

Mr. Bush has gone so far as to accuse Iran of shipping arms to its Sunni antagonists in the Taliban, a stretch Newsweek finally slapped down last week.

Anything slapped down by Newsweek or the NYT for that matter is nothing more than a common black fly. The only stretch is them reaching for such fly with the fly-swatter. In other words, if you believe Newsweek and the NYT you are pretty gullible, as they report from their comfy offices in downtown Manhattan. You know the place. It’s where the planes crashed on 9/11 or am I living in a parallel universe with Rich and pals?

And he even states if such a war happens Hillary, the presumed nominee, couldn’t handle it.

In 2007, Kyl-Lieberman passed by 76 to 22. No sooner did Mrs. Clinton cast her vote than she started taking heat in Iowa. Her response was to blur her stand. She abruptly signed on as the sole co- sponsor of a six-month-old (and languishing) bill introduced by the Virginia Democrat Jim Webb forbidding money for military operations in Iran without Congressional approval.

In Tuesday’s debate Mrs. Clinton tried to play down her vote for Kyl-Lieberman again by incessantly repeating her belief in “vigorous diplomacy” as well as the same sound bite she used after her Iraq vote five years ago. “I am not in favor of this rush for war,” she said, “but I’m also not in favor of doing nothing.”

There is one descriptive word I can use for this editorial: BALDERDASH!

If there’s a war with Iran during this president’s term it will be initiated by Iran and not Bush. In the meantime, crazy Bush (who doesn’t live in the real world according to Neanderthal Man) is positioning our troops in case of an attack by Iran—not to attack Iran in his last 14 months as president.

Written by ~J~

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