Representative Duncan Hunter (R), a candidate for the nomination of the Republican party, fanned the flames of war as he spoke with Judy Woodruff on the Lehrer News Hour this evening. His comments suggest the inevitability of a war with Iran and Woodruff asks him for a judgment as to whether or not a military confrontation with Iran is settled. It seemed to me that Hunter indicated that it was not yet time to say inevitable with the implication that such a decision is in the wings. Well, when it is decided, Judy Woodruff will be ready to talk about the inevitable, ie. go along with the war plans of the United States and become part of the imperialist war by informing all, with a straight face, that the bombardment of Iran is inevitable, coming down the pike.

What Judy Woodruff will not do is challenge the endless unsubstantiated allegations about how the Iranian nuclear program is a program to build nuclear weapons.

What Judy Woodruff will not do is dwell on the possibilities for peace which are many given the repeated diplomatic efforts of Iran to work out some sort of modus vivendi with Washington.

What Judy Woodruff will not do is detect any lie, any distortion, any act of public deception or mass manipulation. She will part of the "in-crowd", one of those favored creatures who finds
our what "has been decided" and then almost gleefully leads us to support that decision.

Above all Judy Woodruff will not question the decision to go to war with Iran and almost never question any other decision for that matter, unless of course it is the decision of a foreign leader, a polygamist leader or anyone else who does not make those decisions she so loyally transmits to the millions of her viewers, hungering for news, not political complicity with newsmakers or
powerful decision makers.