This dog won’t wag
The American Prospect
by Michael Tomasky
02/14/07
Put aside completely the merits of starting a war with Iran, which is easy to do since there are none. Does the White House really believe that it can help itself politically by doing this? Do the people who have alienated this country and decimated another actually think that they can get away with this — that the natural order would assert itself, and that the people would respond in the usual rallying way if the president went on prime-time television to announce the commencement of air strikes? The two most recent polls I found on the question suggest a resounding no...
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12456
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Tomasky
by Michael Tomasky
02/14/07
Put aside completely the merits of starting a war with Iran, which is easy to do since there are none. Does the White House really believe that it can help itself politically by doing this? Do the people who have alienated this country and decimated another actually think that they can get away with this — that the natural order would assert itself, and that the people would respond in the usual rallying way if the president went on prime-time television to announce the commencement of air strikes? The two most recent polls I found on the question suggest a resounding no...
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12456
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+Tomasky
rudkla - 15. Feb, 15:08
