Robert Scheer: Bush's Nutty Nuclear Braggadocio

I wish I was as convinced as Mr. Scheer that Bush's "nukular' mumblings were not more than braggadocio.

I can't, and that is why I am not sleeping very well at night.

Germans called Hitler nutty and a silly little man, before the Third Reich took over their minds and hearts and the entire nation went bonkers. Fear an deception make people do stupid things and cause the masses to cheer the very essence of evil, if evil actually had an essence.

Bush beliieves in BIG actions; actions that get the world's attention, even if that attention comes with a horrible price.

We, the people, of the United States of America cannot afford to allow Bush to use nuclear weapons in our names, AGAIN!

It is time for Congress to step up! Let Junior know, in no uncertain terms that he cannot, must not do this thing without Congressional approval, and that he does not have it, because of any past resolutions.

...and not one member of Congress, in either body, had better vote for this insanity.

We mean that! Don't do this!

Truthdig - Reports - Robert Scheer: Bush's Nutty Nuclear Braggadocio:

"The quandary in which Bush finds himself regarding Iran's apparent quest for nuclear weapons is only the latest example in an astonishing series of national security blunders.

First, he vacationed while a crescendo of intelligence warnings of imminent terrorist attack blossomed into the spectacle of Sept. 11, 2001. Then, he allowed the mastermind of those attacks, Osama bin Laden, to escape while diverting U.S. resources into Iraq to save the world from Saddam Hussein's nonexistent WMDs. Now, tied down in Iraq's civil strife, Bush holds no high cards in a dangerous poker match with Iran.

A once swaggering president, who so convincingly wielded a bullhorn and modeled a flight suit, now has assumed the pretzel pose of a supplicant attempting to cajole our old enemy in Tehran into dropping its nuclear ambitions while simultaneously initiating talks with Iran aimed at bailing us out in Iraq. After the fiasco of using the blunt instrument of military force to 'democratize' Iraq, Bush now resorts to mild talk of U.N. sanctions on Iran, the very weapon he had derided in relation to quarantining Hussein. Bush's nutty nuclear braggadocio on Tuesday, 'all options are on the table,' was a sign of weakness, not strength, hobbled as he is by various self-created impediments.