Apocalypse June

Mighty tip of the cap to our esteemed colleague, the King of Zembla, for pointing out this bit of scary information: according to former UNSCOM weapons inspector Scott Ritter (who, it may be noted, was fucking right when he said that he didn't believe that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a repository for a huge cache of WMD), Preznit Don't Smoke Pot Like I Did has already signed off an order to begin bombing Iran in June of this year. He also made the claim that the Bushists manipulated the results of the January 30th elections in Iraq, but after the Florida and Ohio debacles of 2000 and 2004, is that really news? Is anyone really surprised?

As to the bombing... I can't say that's much of a shocker, either. We all know it's coming, and if the mullahs in Iran are smart, they'll just cede the country to Halliburton now and get it over with.

Personally, I plan on being in Europe in June, and so will miss the US news' glorification of the shock and awe that will undoubtedly strike Tehran and points east, west, south and north somewhat. Maybe I'll be able to join in some massive street protests in Paris or Rome, just to let some of the people over there know that not all Americans are fucking bloodthirsty fascists like the good folks in the White House are.