Predictable
Apr 25th, 2006 at 4:56 pm by Susie
John Dean on our increasingly dangerous president and the likelihood of an “October Surprise”:
But more likely, Bush may mount a unilateral attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities - hoping to rev up his popularity. (It’s a risky strategy: A unilateral hit on Iran may both trigger devastating Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks in Iraq, with high death tolls, and increase international dislike of Bush for his bypass of the U.N. But as an active/negative President, Bush hardly shies away from risk.) Another rabbit-out-of-the-hat possibility: the capture of Osama bin Laden.
If there is no “October Surprise,” I would be shocked. And if it is not a high-risk undertaking, it would be a first. Without such a gambit, and the public always falls for them, Bush is going to lose control of Congress. Should that happen, his presidency will have effectively ended, and he will spend the last two years of it defending all the mistakes he has made during the first six, and covering up the errors of his ways.
There is, however, the possibility of another terrorist attack, and if one occurred, Americans would again rally around the president - wrongly so, since this is a presidency that lives on fear-mongering about terror, but does little to truly address it. The possibility that we might both suffer an attack, and see a boost to Bush come from it, is truly a terrifying thought.
If he does it’ll lead to his very own Mussolini Moment.
Truly a terrifying thought is an understatement.
I think its definitely possible that attacking Iran will turn us into a low-standard-of-living police state. Currency and oil reprisals, international boycotts, suicide attacks in the USA, and forget about traveling off this continent- you’ll be a target. It could well cause the overthrow of Musharrif’s government , and then you WILL have nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists.
It could be a nightmare.
I think if there’s another terorrist attack, Bush won’t be able to rally the public the way Dean predicts.
I think that, after Katrina and everything else, people will blame him.
I could be wrong: but most people are sick of this guy’s shit and his slacker act.
It will be the end. Of Bush, and maybe of our soft, happy meal world.