The Daily Background
| Clift: White House to rattle Iran sabers for midterm elections
by Arlen Parsa
Newsweek’s Elenor Clift is predicting that the White House will start the “war drums” so to speak on Iran in order to get Republicans motivated to turn out at the polls this November. Broken up for readability:
An off-year election without a presidential candidate on the ballot is about turn out, which side can rev up more of its supporters to come to the polls. Conservatives right now feel pretty lackluster about Bush and the Republican Congress.
The energy is on the Democratic side. What better way to alter that equation than to generate fears that Democrats are weak on national security and will talk and talk while Iran and the crazy mullahs get the bomb. The tough language could get out the conservative vote in November, and it’s also laying the groundwork for a possible attack on Iran.
The same people who beat the war drums for invading Iraq are now leading the way within the administration and in the media for a preemptive strike in Iran. Crazy as it sounds with U.S. troops mired in Iraq, it could happen.
It’s not too far fetched, the Administration has used the Iraq war in each previous election to drum up support for Republican candidates, and now that Iraq is clearly unpopular, perhaps they think it’s time to start another drumline? So to speak? Full column.
Be sure to check out the “al-Jihad” booklet used by Hizballah and probably other terrorists planning the next attack on us. Read an analysis about it in “The Terrorist’s Nightmare” blog
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