Psyche, Science, and Society

Iran attack needs no authorization, decider believes

January 13th, 2007

Glenn Greewald provides an analysis making it clear that the Bush administration does not believe the President needs any Congressional authorization to launch war against Iran. Well worth reading as we stand on the precipice.

And while your at it, read Greenwald’s The President’s intentions towards Iran need much more attention:

The AEI/Weekly Standard/National Review/Fox News neonconservative warmongers are mocked because of how extremist and deranged their endless war desires are, but the President is, more or less, one of them. He thinks the way they think. The war in Iraq has collapsed and the last election made unmistakably clear that Americans have turned against the war, and the President’s response, like their response, was to escalate. How much more proof do we need of how extremist and unconstrained by public opinion and basic reality he is?

In response to the unprovoked attack by the United States on an Iranian Consulate in Iraq, an act of war by all international standards, Greewald asks:

Isn’t it a definitive act of war for one country to storm the consulate of another, threaten to kill them if they do not surrender, and then detain six consulate officers?

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