Too Late for Diplomacy

While Bush and his cohorts are saying that they want a diplomatic solution to Iran, what is really going on? They said the same things befor the Iraq war, even though they had already decided privately to go ahead with it regardless. In fact, they were already at war.

In 2002 Operation Southern Focus started. It was a bombing campaign designed to soften Iraqi air defenses prior to a US invasion. You are probably re-reading those last 2 lines again and thinking to yourself "The war didn't start until 2003", and you would not be the only one. In fact, all the time Bush was saying that the choice for war was up to Saddam, Bush had already privately declaired war.

Is the same thing happening today? Retired Colonel Sam Gardiner seems to think so. In an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Col. Gardiner says "The issue is not whether the military option would be used, but who approved the start of operations already".