More nonsense from mad men in charge

It has become obvious that someone left the door open at the institution for the criminally insane and they all not only escaped they have taken over the government. To make matters worse no one seems able or willing to stop them. The most recent nut case who has come to our attention is one John McCain. Alexander Cockburn explains in McCain Starts Bombing Run on Iran.

Senator John McCain is on track for another rhetorical bombing run. In Munich, he's been squaring up to Iran, gravely telling the allies that the military option can't be ruled out if diplomatic efforts fail to stop Iran developing a nuclear bomb: "Immediate UN Security Council action is required to impose multilateral sanctions, including a prohibition on investment, a travel ban, and asset freezes for government leaders and nuclear scientists."

"Every option must remain on the table," McCain said. "There's only one thing worse than military action, that is a nuclear armed Iran."

The senior senator for Arizona is, thus far, sparing the Iranians his riper bouts of pugilism, as when he bellowed for "lights out in Belgrade" and for NATO to "cream" the Serbs back at the close of the Nineties.

As I reported last week Iran has Economic WMD's that are capable of doing more damage to the world economy than the conventional WMD's and they have made it clear they will use them if attacked. Cockburn explains that Iran has another weapon in it's arsenal, Iraq's Moqtada al Sadr.

As Andrew Cockburn wrote here last week, in his piece "Bush's 130,000 Hostages". Iran recently hosted Moqtada al Sadr for a high profile visit, in the course of which he obligingly pledged that his militia, the Mahdi army, would retaliate for any American attack on Iran. His spokesman quoted him as telling his hosts "If any Islamic state, especially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is attacked, the Mahdi Army would fight inside and outside Iraq."

"This warning should be taken seriously, " Andrew wrote. "The Jaish al Mahdi, al Sadr's militia, has emerged as a formidable force since its formation in 2003. Fifteen months ago, in November 2004, when it was less well trained and equipped than today, this army held off a determined assault by US Marines for three weeks in Najaf."

Can there be any doubt that those like McCain, and yes the Democrat's own neocon Joe Lieberman, are completely mad?