Talking Points Memo has a quote from a new Time article suggesting that the Bush administration is getting ready to go to war against Iran:
We must do everything in our power to stop this war. The fact is, Iran is years away from obtaining nuclear weapons, and real diplomacy - namely, face-to-face negotiations with all topics, including normalized relations, on the table - has yet to be tried. A war in Iran could be the fatal blow which would make the world five years hence unrecognizable from the world of today - sadly, almost certainly to the detriment of all of the world’s people (think World War I’s impact on Europe).Coupled with the CNO’s request for a blockade review, a deployment of minesweepers to the west coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed—but until now largely theoretical—prospect has become real: that the U.S. may be preparing for war with Iran.
Whoever DK from Talking Points Memo is, he/she keeps hitting it out of the ballpark:
If you were to pick the single greatest hypocrisy of the Bush Presidency, wouldn’t it have to be this: that the man who ostentatiously claims Jesus as his favorite philosopher (he of “do unto others as ye would have them do unto you” fame) would say, in all seriousness, “Common Article III says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. “What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?”
It saddens me deeply that there are large parts of the church in America who continue to support a man who is arguing over the definition of “is” when it comes to torture. Reasonable people can disagree when it comes to whether it is important to “stay the course” in Iraq or pull out, but I cannot find any reasonable basis for a Christian belief that torture, in any form, is ever justified.
