Reports that the military is one Bush whim phone call away from attacking Iran should have all Americans horrified. Every sane person must sense this would be the biggest disaster in history. Think of financial panic and a million suicide bombers out for revenge on Americans.

Selling war with lies is evil. The Iraq people did no harm to Americans. Bush has imposed on them a dysfunctional Green Zone puppet government. Civilians are slaughtered by all sides and death squads that torture humans with electric drills operate freely.

By extending this war to Iran, the only ones who win would be Texas oil billionaires and war profiteers like Cheney and Halliburton. Everyone else loses, the future is destroyed and the Patriot Act stifles dissent. To conspire to wage a war of aggression is a war crime. An enraged citizenry needs to overwhelm Congress and demand “No Secret War Plotting” and “No Military Sneak Attacks.”

The only hope for a decent future is for Congress to impeach the Iraq war plotters, deliver all records of the war plotting to the International War Crimes Tribunal, cut off funding of the illegal war and order the troops home.

-John Mackesy