Support for Iran Attack is About to Soar.

When trying to get support for an un provoked war, there is no better recipe than to make sure that people think you are stopping the next Hitler.

Canada, Australia concerned by reports Iran to tag non-Muslims
OTTAWA (AFP) - The Canadian and Australian prime ministers expressed concern at unconfirmed reports that said
Iran may force non-Muslims to wear colored badges in public so they can be identified.

Emphasis on unconfirmed is mine.

Funny how there reports are coming from Canada and Australia. Two countries you usually don't think of as war-mongering.

You may remember that Australia's John Howard almost lost re-election last go-round because of his support for the Iraq War. Canada's Stephen Harper? he's the new Conservative Prime Minister who also supports the Iraq war.

A couple of doves these guys are not.

The National Post newspaper reported Friday, citing human rights groups, that Iran's parliament passed a law this week that sets a public dress code and requires non-Muslims to wear a special insignia.

Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear a yellow, red or blue strip of cloth, respectively, on the front of their clothes, according to the newspaper.

Now I ask you. Iran knows it's on Bush's shit list. Why on earth would a country who is walking a thin line already, knowingly do this?
Why doesn't Ahmadinejad just grow a little mustache and part his hair to one side?

Who is the National Post anyway, and who are these "humans rights groups"? Why not give specifics about these groups?

Update [2006-5-19 15:55:6 by Brian Nowhere]: Did a little research on the National Post:

From WIKIPEDIA on National Post The Post was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black to combat what he saw as an 'over-liberalizing' of editorial policy in Canadian newspapers. Black built the new paper around the existing Financial Post, an established business-oriented newspaper in Toronto which he purchased from Sun Media in 1997. (Financial Post was retained as the name of the new paper's business section.) From the beginning the Post has had a strongly conservative editorial stance, and has an editorial page featuring the writings of many prominent neo-conservatives and libertarians from the United States and Canada, including Diane Francis, Andrew Coyne, Mark Steyn and David Frum. This stance is typically mocked by those who refer to the paper as the "Fascist Post" or the "Zionist Post". A number of newspaper stands in Toronto holding the National Post for sale have been vandalized with these statements.

OK, back to Canda's version of the Washington Times.

"Anything of that kind would be totally repugnant to civilized countries, if it's the case, and something that would just further indicate to me the nature of this regime," Australia's Prime Minister John Howard told reporters during an official visit to Ottawa.

"It would be appalling," he added.

It would be appaling if it were true. But is it true is the question. Or is this just another piece of grist for the propaganda machine that will quickly be retracted, only to leave a trace memory of truthiness(c) on the memories of the millions who read this?

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he had "only seen reports" about the law but commented he would not be surprised by them.

"Unfortunately, we have seen enough already from the Iranian regime to suggest that it is very capable of this kind of action," he said.

"It think it boggles the mind that any regime on the face of the earth would want to do anything that could remind people of Nazi Germany," he added.

Yes it does Boggle the mind.

"The fact that such a measure could even be contemplated, I think, is absolutely abhorent."

Earlier, Harper's parliamentary secretary, Jason Kenney, told the House of Commons that Canadian officials were trying to verify the claims and said Ottawa is "deeply concerned".

"Should these reports turn out to be true, this government will condemn in the strongest terms possible this kind of revisiting of the darkest period of the last century. It is something that the entire civilized world should condemn," Kenney said.

When I first heard that we were planning to attack Iran and would be doing so soon I thought, yeah right! Like we have the resources and the support to do so. I figured that Bush was just flexing a little muscle and keeping Iran on the edge.

 But knowing the way that this Administration goes about shit, now I'm starting to really worry. I think we are really planning to attack a country that is at least two times bigger than Iraq, with a much more formidable fighting force.

Here's the link to the Actual Article..just so you can see for yourself that it's real

(c) The term Truthiness was provided courtesy of Stephen Colbert, copyright 2006