It seems that the Bush administration is repeating its run up to Iraq invasion playbook this time to lay a foundation for attacking Iran.  The playbook consisted of lies and prevaricating propaganda to bamboozle the American public and representatives on Capitol Hill. 

Despite the old saying that Bush can never state correctly and obviously doesn't understand, "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me," Dubya's worst administration ever flunkies attempted to implement the saying again, ignoring the truth of the axiom.  But this time, there will be no fooling the public twice.

Gareth Porter writes at Asia Times: "The George W Bush administration's plan to create a new crescendo of accusations against Iran for allegedly smuggling arms to Shi'ite militias in Iraq has encountered not just one but two setbacks.

"The government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki refused to endorse US charges of Iranian involvement in arms smuggling to Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, and a plan to show off a huge collection of Iranian arms captured in and around the central city of Karbala had to be called off after it was discovered that none of the arms was of Iranian origin. Shi'ite militiamen in Karbala did not include a single Iranian weapon shielded the US military from a big blow to its anti-Iran strategy.

"The Bush administration and top Iraq commander General David Petraeus had plotted a sequence of events that would build domestic US political support for a possible strike against Iran over its "meddling" in Iraq, and especially its alleged export of arms to Shi'ite militias.

"The plan was keyed to a briefing document to be prepared by Petraeus on the alleged Iranian role in arming and training Shi'ite militias that would be revealed to the public after the Maliki government had endorsed it, and that would be used to accuse Iran publicly.

"Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen told reporters on April 25 that Petraeus was preparing a briefing to be given "in the next couple of weeks" that would provide detailed evidence of "just how far Iran is reaching into Iraq to foment instability"...

"US officials also planned to display to reporters Iranian weapons captured in both Basra and Karbala. That sequence of media events would fill the airwaves for several days with spectacular news framing Iran as the culprit in Iraq, aimed at breaking down US congressional and public resistance to the idea that Iranian bases supporting the meddling would have to be attacked.

"But events in Iraq did not follow the script. On May 4, after an Iraqi delegation had returned from meetings in Iran, Maliki's spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said in a news conference that Maliki was forming his own cabinet committee to investigate the US claims. "We want to find tangible information and not information based on speculation," he said.

"The Iraqi commander in Karbala had announced on May 3 that he had captured a large quantity of Iranian arms in and around the city. Earlier, the US military had said that it was up to the Iraqi government to display captured Iranian weapons, and now an Iraqi commander was eager to do just that. Petraeus' staff alerted US media to a major news event in which the captured Iranian arms in Karbala would be displayed and then destroyed.

"But when US munitions experts went to Karbala to see the alleged cache of Iranian weapons, they found nothing they could credibly link to Iran."

The cancellation of the big Pinocchio dog and pony show made the rounds of progressive blogs on the Internet and Keith Olbermann reported the story, but the mainstream "White House and Pentagon glorified stenographers" media didn't bother to cover it or dig for the implications.

"The US command had to inform reporters that the event had been canceled, explaining that it had all been a 'misunderstanding'.

"The cancelation [sic] of the planned display was a significant story, in light of the well-known intention of the US command to convict Iran on the arms smuggling charge. Nevertheless, it went unreported in the world's news media."

The fear, hate, and war mongering Bush administration and its politicized Pentagon, personified by Bushite loyalist flunky, General David Petraeus and others, continue to lie in order to justify an attack on Iran. 

How many more innocent people do these bloodthirsty, right wing, anti-Constitution criminals plan to kill?

And impeachment is still off the table.