Is Bush Intent on World War Three?

I'm done with doubt. The latest actions by American troops in the Kurdish part of Iraq prove that this Administration is dead set, that if they can't win on their terms in Iraq, on creating the conditions for World War Three.

So, here's the reality. Bush is still irrevocably addicted to the Neo-Con KoolAid. I have come to the conclusion that he is intent on sabotaging the situation in Iraq in such a manner as to provide a pretext for a general war with Iran and/or Syria. Why have I finally, and reluctantly, come to that position?

Maliki and the Iraqi leadership have made clear that 2/3 of the troops Iraq has promised to send to support the US troops in Baghdad will have to come from the Kurds in the north. Already, Kurdish leaders were saying they couldn't find enough troops willing to go. So, what does the Bush regime do?

They attack an Iranian diplomatic office in the Kurdish portion of Iraq. An action guaranteed to create a rift between the US and the Kurds (formerly the one major Iraqi ethnic group who supported the US and its goals there.)

We have LEGALLY invaded Iranian sovereign soil. That's the rule that applies to consular and diplomatic land.

This all happens within 24 hours of the President giving a primetime national speech in which, while apologizing to Americans for the mistakes in Iraq, he threatens Iran and Syria, instead of taking the suggestions of the Iraq study group and engaging them.

Ladies and gentlemen. Be very afraid. I believe, that this Administration intentionally has us on the FAST TRACK for a war with Iran and possibly Syria. I simply cannot believe in my heart of hearts that any diplomat or political leader could be ignorant of the cumulative effects of such policies.

I'm not alone in this fear either. Even conservatives like: Pat Buchanan, Joe Klein (of Time Magazine), William Kristol (of Neo-Con fame) and Joe Scarborough are now voicing the same fears. Pat Buchanan has even explicitly said he thinks Bush intends to invade Iran. He noted that the President said in his speech that that we are sending Patriot missiles and a Carrier Task Group into Iraq. (As Buchanan notes, you don't need fighter jets, naval power, and Patriot missiles to fight insurgents in Iraq!)

During the Cold War, we constantly worried about what would happen if a delusional Soviet leader had his fingers on the button, should the Soviet Union disintegrate. We feared that he would "push the button." Fortunately for us, Mikhail Gorbachev, proved, in the words of Sting, that the Russians loved their children too.

However, for the first time in my life I am truly afraid about an occupant of the White House in exactly the same way we all once worried about the fall of the Soviet Empire. I am now convinced that George Bush would actually prefer a nuclear war with Iran & Syria in the Middle East, a war which could only lead to World War 3, to simply accepting the loss in Iraq, withdrawing our troops from there and working to stabilize the region and Afghanistan.

President Bush has clearly adopted a "bunker mentality." Although I do not believe Bush is cut from the same general moral cloth as Adolf Hitler, this kid of bunker mentality and its concomitant denial of reality is all too reminiscent of Adolf Hitler as the Russian front began to collapse completely in the wake of Stalingrad.

I am beginning to think we may have no choice but to impeach Bush/Cheney to prevent World War Three.