Iran from Iraq
Admit it. It's crossed your mind, hasn't it. Okay. If you won't, then I will.
As soon as I heard the news about the kidnapping of 15 British sailors by Iranian terrorists I thought, "Oh my. That IS convenient." And feared the worst for their lives.
In a way that sent a chill up my spine. Like maybe this whole thing is exactly what it looks like except that the people behind it aren't necessarily the people we're being led to believe are behind it.
Maybe the people behind it are closer to home than even the most conspiratorial among us would want to believe.
I'm just saying.
And I suppose I'm a traitor for thinking such a thing at all, but I can't pretend to not know what I know about the American administration - a.k.a. Bush Inc. The media might have to in order to report the news as objectively as possible, but, adding up the facts of the War on Terror so far - I can't pretend I don't think this international incident is not at all what it seems.
In fact, now I think of it... did I insert "kidnapping" and "terrorist" myself? Did the original news report say "capture" and "authorities"? Or just "kidnapping" and "Iranians"? On account of "Iranians" is loaded enough to set the scene in a way that is meant to justify an invasion - sooner rather than later.
I'm just saying.
We all knew it was coming. A trigger for invasion. Is this it? With just enough time left in the Bush Inc. mandate to get really down and dirty and embedded in Iran? Do I even want to go there knowing there are fifteen lives at stake right now in Iran (I assume) and that all fifteen may be murdered for reasons we may never know because of Official Secrets acts and Patriotism acts and just because the C.I.A. which has seemed to be laying low these past few years may only have seemed to be laying low because it is, in fact, the Government of the United States?
I don't go there often because I find it all pretty terrifying. You know, like how the New York Times must have found it terrifying to realize there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction, that the President of the United States had been lying all along about there being intelligence to prove that there were, that he would have known all along that he was lying, that he deliberately perpetrated a massive fraud on the American people in order to invade Iraq, that the duly elected Leader of the Free World was lying to everybody in it but that he had so whipped up the American people in a frenzy of Patriotism that the most important and influential newspaper in the United States of America was afraid to report the news.
I get scared. I get scared because then I think - they've got more money than they could ever possibly want, these Bush Inc. people. So why are they perpetrating this massive fraud on the rest of the world? Is it, in fact, because they are ideologues? Is it because they truly believe in their Tribe as being of the One True Faith - with Faith being something unique to this mix of the American religious right and Texas oilmen? Is it possible that this is all about their Tribe being seen to take over the world before its term is up?
I'm just saying.
I really don't know what to believe. I know what I don't WANT to believe, but I also know that the first thing, the very first thing, that sprang to my mind when I read about the "kidnappings" was how convenient they were to Bush Inc.'s push for a War on Iran. The next thing I thought was - they'll be killed. Those people will be killed - we just won't ever really know by whom. And their deaths will be used to justify the next step in this War on Terror. Remember? The Axis of Evil? Like a prophesy it will come true.
Look. I don't want to think these things. I really don't. But I can't unthink them, now, can I.
But read this and tell me if you haven't read it all before:
