Attack Iran? Part 1

The Israel Lobby, determined to attack Iran, is forever quoting Iranian President Ahmadinejad's expressed desire to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Actually, this sentiment is commonplace in the Arab and Muslim worlds, thanks to the sin that dares not speak its name (in the US), i.e. the Israeli occupation and persecution of the Palestinians. (This is why establishing justice in Palestine is key to peace in this region.) Whereas Israel occupies Palestine and parts of Syria and Lebanon, and whereas the US occupies Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran occupies nobody. Indeed, it was Iraq, backed by the US, which invaded Iran in 1980, initiating the Iran/Iraq War in which a million soldiers died. Our war-mongering, trigger-happy president, who is allergic to diplomacy and oblivious to the other side of any issue, is threatening an attack on Iran. Given his pathological history, we must take such threats seriously. President Bush is apparently not content for our soldiers to be merely fighting Sunni insurgents, Shiite militias, al-Queda, and messianic cults in Iraq, he wants them to take on the Iranian army as well. Could he be suffering from megalomania?