Russia, Georgia, And The Republicans’ Permanent Raging Woody For The Start Of World War III (Or IV or V).

Have you noticed that whenever there’s some military activity somewhere in the world, around the time of a US election, a wingnut goes on national teevee and tells us that it’s the beginning of World War III?

For example: Russia invades Georgia. Cue BillO’s hysterical headline, "DRIFTING TOWARD WORLD WAR III" (TP has audio).

In addition to the sheer absurdity of this bed-wetting hyperbole, BillO must’ve forgotten that he’d already declared the start of World War III — when Israel invaded Lebanon two years ago.

That conflict, which lasted about a month, also inspired Newt Gingrich to go on Fox and announce that WWIII had begun. And then he went on "Meet The Press" and did it again. And then he did it again at a GOP fundraiser.

Then there was Glenn Beck, not about to miss the biggest story since Hitler invaded Poland, who said of Israel/Lebanon,

BECK: Hey, everybody. Hurry up; we’ve got World War III to fight. Yes, it is the end of days. Isn’t it?

No.

Naturally, Sean Hannity was right there with ‘em during the conflict, though he skipped World War III and went right to V.

We are loaded up today, as the Middle East on the brink of World War V, here.

But before you laugh, Hannity was apparently on top of his fake wingnut World Wars, because James Woosley had marked the beginning of World War IV — in 2003.

And last year, when the wingers were itching for war with Iran — the Decider got in the act.

"We’ve got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I’ve told people that, if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

It’s obvious what’s going on here. Wingnuts wanna scare people, because they think fear makes people vote Republican.

Having failed to protect us on 9/11, after failing to achieve victory in Afghanistan and Iraq after nearly seven years, and after presiding over yet another foreign policy debacle in Eastern Europe — it remains to be seen whether this tactic will work again.

Sure as hell won’t stop them from trying, though.

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