An original article by Madhoosier;

The Bush administration’s impending attack on Iran has always been about Saudi Arabia, Israel, oil, and regime change. Iran’s supposed nuclear program was just a convenient excuse for the attack.

America’s disintegrating economy, the plunging dollar, and a probable blowout by the democrats in 08 make a Bush administration attack on Iran an almost certainty, Bush will attempt to create his own scapegoat to blame for the mess his policies have created by attacking Iran.

What I expect to happen now that he can no longer use Iran’s nuclear program as an excuse is that we will get a new round of propaganda from the administration; “Iran is arming Iraqi militias with Explosive Formed Penetrators and they’re killing our soldiers” or a false flag incident which “America must respond to protect our honor.” Either way there is no way Bush is going to give up on attacking Iran. Israel wants it, the Saudi Royal family wants it, the American Neocons want it and with Halliburton’s new digs in Dubai within missile range of Iran, Halliburton wants it.

Now that the NIE says Iran is not making a nuclear bomb the question becomes “Will Bush start a war of aggression that is blatantly illegal? And if he does, does that mean that he has quit pretending to observe the rule of law? And if he is no longer even bothering to pretend to observe the rule of law will he implement full blown fascism, declare a State of Emergency, implement National Security Presidential Directive 51 and cancel the 2008 elections?

The damage Dick Nixon did to the republican party is miniscule compared to what Bush and Cheney have done during their seven year crime spree, if they go out of power and are no longer able to cover up their many misdeeds and the American public learns the extent of their crimes the word bush will become a swear word. Bush and Cheney have always governed with the mentality of tin horn dictators and after drinking the nectar of power for seven years I doubt they are going to give up the juice cold turkey.

Since we now know that this administration’s stated need for an attack on Iran was horse manure we need to ask what the real reason is: The Neocons need to attack Iran because there are two basic models of society, in the Neocon model of society the resources and labor of a society benefit a tiny minority while the majority live in poverty. In the other model of society the wealth is more evenly distributed, the largest class is the middle class and there is a small minority of both wealthy and poor. Since the fall of the Shah of Iran Iranian society has tended toward the second model of society, and serves as a good model especially when compared to the Saudi model of society where the royal family lives with unimaginable wealth while the average Saudi citizen has seen no improvement in their standard of living for over a generation.

The second reason for an attack on Iran is to provide another shock like 9-11-2001 so Americans will accept that there is no longer a middle class in America. The largest investment of most members of the middle class is their home and the value of that investment is probably going to shrink by at least half as food and energy costs skyrocket as the housing bubble pops like a balloon on a county fair dart board.

After never calling for any sacrifice for either the Afghanistan War or the Iraq War now Bush plans to use the Iranian War as the excuse for the economic plight of America’s middle class.

And because our conventional troops are allready exhausted from the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War America’s attack on Iran will be with the only unused part of our military; nuclear weapons. If Bush uses nuclear weapons (his only option) to attack Iran, going completely outlaw, he will also attempt to implement fascism here at home.