A small dose of Sanity....

Christy Hardin Smith over at Firedoglake has taken on one of my favorite political subjects; that being that Iranian President Ahmadinejad is NOT about to take over the world and we do NOT need to attack Iran. The facts do not correspond to the rightwing rhetoric in the least. We are on the brink of another Middle Eastern war and while the neocons charge that Iran wants to give the world a makeover in Islamo garb; the TRUTH is the other way around. Hey Cheney, project MUCH? The truth is that the neocons want to do a world makeover in a capitalist "democratic" style (read Corporate rule). Yet they blame Ahmadinejad for wanting to stave this off, calling him "Hitler" etc. Too kooky. And scary. Here's the latest bit of sanity from Firedoglake this a.m.:

The American discussion about Iran has lost all connection to reality. Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative ideologist whom Bush has consulted on this topic, has written that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “like Hitler … a revolutionary whose objective is to overturn the going international system and to replace it in the fullness of time with a new order dominated by Iran and ruled by the religio-political culture of Islamofascism.” For this staggering proposition Podhoretz provides not a scintilla of evidence.

Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland’s and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?…