Does no one else see the political maneuvering that this is? This is a fabricated news story by a right-wing propaganda tool after word of a National Intelligence Estimate report states that the war in Iraq is actually increasing terrorist activity. Iran isn't being significantly agreeable as terrorist boogiemen, their president appearing far too rational and intelligent for his crazy demonic stereotype, so the sabre rattling isn't really going anywhere there. Chavez isn't a serious option because no one really takes him seriously, and Pat Robertson already blew the pundit spunk load by calling for his assassination.
All while the second most important ally in the 'coalition of the willing' reveals that his country was threatened with almost unfathomable force if they did not agree to 'help'. In Canada, there is political resistance to sustained presence in Afghanistan, while public opinion for the war is dropping by the day.
How do you get that off the national news? You create a fake news story turning a hot-point issue like security into a partisan issue, get everyone to vote again along party lines with a flood of campaign commercials as a result of your tremendous stores of cash and organize some safety non-events in the weeks leading up to the election, with some well planted and unsubstantiated 'arguments' into the mainstream discourse and voila, another election sufficiently muddled, and serious debate on american political culture can be effectively evaded for another 2 years..
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