"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." - - - William Blum

September 28, 2007

What happens when Bush/Cheney give the orders and we start bombing Iran? I don't know, but here are a few thing I suspect may happen:
  • First and foremost, thousands of Iraqis will die immediately.
  • The Democrats in Congress will fall in lock-step with our new Fuhrer.
  • Millions of Americans will protest in the streets, to the silence of the media and everyone else.
  • Small plastic American flags will be dusted off and attached to the millions of cars of everyone else.
  • The price of gas will jump to $4/gal. and then gradually crawl up to $8/gal.
  • Our soldiers in Iraq will be increasingly targeted and killed/maimed.
  • Iran which, in contrast to pre-2003 Iraq, actually has an air force, will target U.S. military installations in Iraq and ships and the waters surrounding Iran. Terrorists in Europe and the U.S. will come out of hiding and terrorize all major cities.
  • There will be unthinkable, yet serious, planning by the Pentagon for using nuclear weapons against Iran.
  • The now-subservient Congress will pass new military induction laws. (More silent protests will follow.)
  • Bush will institute the now-legal marshall law and suspend federal elections.
  • The tenuous stability in nations surrounding Iraq and Iran (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Pakistan, etc.) will go up in flames and general mayhem, death and destruction will be the order of the day, with Israel in the middle of the mix.
  • Oil supplies from the Middle East will plummet with worldwide gas rationing the new order of the day. Oil tankers will become prime targets.
  • The U.S. economy will revert to that seen in the 1930's, where everything of common need will be scarce and rationed and black markets will evolve everywhere.
  • Lawlessness in the streets will be common, resulting in the emergence of a new federal police state.
  • A massive exodus of Americans into Canada and Mexico(!) will begin.
You think I'm nuts? Then tell me in the comments what you see happening after our bombs start falling from the Iranian sky.

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