Sound like you are saying the the Iranians are holding all the cards and the real plan is to blackmail the U.S., but you failed to mention that they have been planning to do this Euro conversion since 2004.

BTW Iran won’t even be able to consider it’s move to the Euro untill it starts cooperating with the IAEA and the U.N. Security Council.

Iran seems not to be trusted ey, too bad it’s exactly the same for the US under the presidency of Bushwacka. ‘Defiance of the international community’ are words that Dr. (!) Rice should keep out of her three-tongued mouth. First take a look at yourself, than maybe you can say something bad about an other nation. Doctors have realy small brains these days…probably a side effect of this administration.

Comment by Clif #49

Clif,

…that’s why Puny Hermaphrodite got “the runs”…

Comment by Tracy #14

Trashy,

…it’s NO ACCIDENT that you haven’t heard his name mentioned in a while…

False. With an error factor of +/-3 pts it’s a statistical tie. Americans trust Bush as much as UN.

******Dear Turtle & Clif – No, I didn’t “sponge off pop” – he was dead. I earned a scholastic scholarship and worked summers and nights to pay for books, room, board, the payments on my Volkswagon Bug and the gas to keep it running. Law school was paid for by the Navy and paid back through service. All of my siblings were able to earn scholastic or athletic scholarships – Mom expected no less. Different parents have different expectations, I suppose….

I don’t have a problem with student loans….I just expect them to be repaid before plunking down the $$$ for the BMW or the Prius.

I must say that not only I dislike Bush and his administration, but I’m also very disappointed at the right-wingers that don’t want to hold their own idiots responsible for their wrongdoings and the crimes they committ, and they just follow the “talking points” like the sheep they are!

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=29437&SESSION=875

Americans read this http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/02/14/impeach_yes_but.php

Much of the PR was in the form of “news reports,” used to manipulate the American mind. I would assume that much of the PR was in the form of DISINFORMATION as well. The Bush Administration does not like the UN (for obvious reasons.) So, I am sure that $millions were spent to bash the reputation of the UN.

read this about Iran and Bushes battle plans http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/02/battle_plans_fo_1.html#more

And if you really want war read this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/13/wiran13.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/13/ixworld.html

And if you do start war Its goodbye planet earth

get that American president Bush Impeached he really is an embarasment to America in the eyes of the world

Ridiculous and duplicitous… but those qualities describe Karl Rove 100%.

#38 & beyond – MA you mis read what I said, that was from an article regarding the Iran situation. And if you agree that we need to step away from the rhetoric and actually talk then you will end up on the beating end or IRI’s anger. But I know you disagree and do not believe in negotiation, you only believe in the bullying blow it up diplomacy as practiced by your master.

My class was international marketing and in business you need to get along and actually negotiate to do business (please exclude Wal-Mart though as they do nto believe in win-win situations). If you treat your customers and partners as adversaries then you are truely a fucked up business person. Sun Tzu figured it out 2000+ years ago that you always leave your opponant an out and an opportunity to claim victory even when everything is on your terms. Leaving them no opportunity to maneuver only makes them want to fight with more reckless abandon to save themselves. Taht was 2000+ years ago, and we have that much more history to back up his assertions, yet our current leadership can not see any further back than 9/11, except of course when there is an opportunity to blame something on Clinton.

I’ll bet way back when the whole Iranian hostage situation hit you were majorly conflicted. Does the US continue to support Iran, and the shah, Our allies of 30+ years, even though the shah was a major human rights abuser on par or worse than Sadaam (I’ll bet you say yes support him). Then once his government collapsed do we take him in as a refugee for treatment like we did? Or do we abandon our former allie? Then once the hostages get taken what do we do? Your way is to blame the current president and not take into account the previous history with Iran. Of course then when Reagan got in office we know the hostages were released in exchange for weapons spare parts which congress had dissallowed (i.e. we broke the law in a major way) and we encouraged Sadaam to fight with iran and had a market for business on both sides of the fence. You see Iran Contra actually started in 1980, it’s just we did nto add the contra portion until later. But your way, whatever it is works best, don’t bnegotiate, threaten and bully.

BTW every single one of my instructors save one, professed that they were conservative in values. Shoudl I have filed a complaint with the mind police who want to shut down college campuses across the country?