Asking the Wrong Questions on Iran by Tony Karon

Published: August 21, 2007, 10:04 am

The Debka Made Em Do ItAsking the Wrong Questions on IranImagine, for a moment, that U.S. troops invading Iraq had, as they neared Baghdad, been fired on by an artillery unit using shells filled VX nerve gas an attack that would have lasted minutes before a U.S. aircrew had taken out the battery, and may have brought a horrible death to a handful of American soldiers. Imagine, further, that the conquering troops had later discovered two warehouses full of VX and mustard gas shells. And later, that inspectors in a science lab had discovered a refrigerator full of Botulinum toxin or even anthrax.The Administration and its allies in the punditocracy would have proved their case for war, and the media would have hailed President Bush as the kind of Churchillian visionary that he imagines himself to be. And goodness knows what new adventures the Pentagon ideologues would have immediately begun planning.Now, ask yourself, had the above scenario unfolded and the case for

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