Step One...Create The Crisis

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Kerry Opponent Taking Aim at New Target: Iran

Swift Boat author wants to prepare the public for what he sees as a likely war with the nation.

By Sonni Efron, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — Jerome R. Corsi, a leader of the Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth campaign against former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry, is hard at work on his next political project: preparing American public opinion for what he sees as a likely war with Iran."The world cannot tolerate the potential that these mad mullahs would have a deliverable nuclear weapon, even one, secretly developed," Corsi said in a recent interview.

"They might just launch on Tel Aviv. The moment the world intelligence community becomes convinced that could happen, either the U.S. alone or the U.S. plus Israel or Israel alone will seriously contemplate a preemptive strike, and I'd be in favor of it."

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The Neo-Con process for framing the debate is as follows:

Step 1: Create a false crisis to whip up emotions and leave reason at the door.

Step 2: Draw clear, black and white distinctions between what has to be done NOW to avert catastrophe.

Step 3: Choose side, create policy that favors friends and business, and shout as loud and as many times as possible that this is the ONLY way to save us from sure destruction.

Step 4: Develop counter strategy of denegrating any and all who would challenge such a clear and simple choice - usually by labeling it a "liberal" response.

Step 5: Cultivate emotion (usually fear) in order to bring false crisis to a head and then call for a vote or resolution.

Step 6: Go off half-cocked and ill-prepared for unintended consequences resulting from policy and action based on ideology and emotion as opposed to reason and critical thinking.

Step 7: Take no responsibility for failures of forethought due to "crisis" nature of problem and need for immediate fix. (Conveniently forget that you created the crisis in the first place.)

I suggest you take this process and apply it to virtually every policy initiative implemented or contemplated by this administration and the Neo-Cons et al. Iraq, Social Security, Estate Tax, Prescription Drugs, No Child Left Behind, etc.

Am I the only one disturbed by how casually this man commits the lives of our soldiers to his cause? I have an idea. Let's attack and kick his ass out of the airplane first!