Senior U.S. Officials “Want to Hit Iran”
Senior U.S. Officials “Want to Hit Iran”
Joseph Cirincione is a respected non-proliferation expert at the Carnegie Endowment, one who admits he “was the last remaining person in Washington who believed President George W. Bush when he said that he was committed to a diplomatic solution.” Yet, in a new column for Foreign Policy magazine, he says he now believes that senior U.S. officials have already made up their minds to attack Iran:
For months, I have told interviewers that no senior political or military official was seriously considering a military attack on Iran. In the last few weeks, I have changed my view. In part, this shift was triggered by colleagues with close ties to the Pentagon and the executive branch who have convinced me that some senior officials have already made up their minds: They want to hit Iran. … What I previously dismissed as posturing, I now believe may be a coordinated campaign to prepare for a military strike on Iran.
The ramifications of such an attack could be disastrous. At a minimum, it would likely “rally the Iranian public around an otherwise unpopular regime, inflame anti-American anger around the Muslim world, and jeopardize the already fragile U.S. position in Iraq.” But most importantly, a military strike would “almost certainly speed…up” Iran’s nuclear weapons development by sparking a “crash nuclear program that could produce a bomb in a few years.”
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It sounds like they truly want to start WWIII.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:10 pmyes, it will happen.
by the way, Here is a link to seymour hersh from Januaury 17, 2005. and others too were writing about this in late 2004 and 2005.
Here is a quote:
April 4th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
#1 beat me to the punch. Striking Iran will be much, much, much more serious than was striking Iraq. Kiss your asses goodbye.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:13 pmoops
here is the correct hersh link.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:13 pmI’m sure if we just leave them alone the problem will go away.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:16 pmthe neocons are salivating at the thought of using tactile nukes there; this alone would be enough to cinche the deal in their mind
if they attack they will most certainly use nukes
April 4th, 2006 at 10:18 pmgoogle “third term rice barnes”
google “o”connor dictatorship”
it’s there. it was there since Cheney was selected as VP…
prepare for revolution, or dictatorship: the US is already gone.
fred barnes is pitching a third term for bush with condi his had picked loyal successor
April 4th, 2006 at 10:20 pmo’connor says “dictatorship beginnings are already here”
Time to break out the pitchforks and the torches and storm the castle…
Or perhaps the guillotines and storm the palace…
Or perhaps…
Oh, nevermind, here we go again…
April 4th, 2006 at 10:24 pmMarketing will start 2 months before the midterms. Looks like we’ll be starting wars every 2 years to give the Republicans their wedge. Do we really expect this team of incompetents to wage a real war? This will be a complete and utter disaster. Democrats best get out in front of this real quick.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:27 pmBombing Iran…
Think Progress has a report that our president and his lads have decided to attack Iran….
April 4th, 2006 at 10:31 pm#9
Democrats were out in front of this in the 90’s. Another problem they left for the next administration to solve.
Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC,Commander, U.S. Central Command
Thursday, January 7, 1999
Q Just a follow-up with one short one. Could you capsulize, summarize, the long-term strategy?
GEN. ZINNI: Yeah, I think I can do it in less than 25 words. You know, my mission is to maintain stability in the region. My mission is to ensure the hegemons in the region, including Saddam Hussein, not be allowed to pursue their hegemonic designs. And that can be described in their ability to punish their own people, no-fly, no-drive zones; their ability to threaten their neighbors, move forces to the Kuwaiti border; develop weapons of mass destructions and delivery systems and shoot them.
There is not just one threat out there, or one potential threat. I mean, we see the terrorist and extremist threat out there. We still are wondering which way Iran is going, whether there’s moderation or not. I mean, I know you know all the issues and concerns.
Our job is stability. It’s easy to look at Iraq, and look at one problem, and look at a short-term solution. And, as you said, everybody in this town and elsewhere in the world, has a short-term solution, which is about one paragraph and sounds easy on paper. As the guy that might have to execute it, it ain’t that easy. And containment is hard. It could be long term. But if in the end it’s stability and it keeps all the global interests in there protected, and our friends protected in the region, and the people in the region protected, then I think it’s worth the price.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:34 pmNo doubt in my mind that these desperate fools are planning to sacrifice more of the best and the brightest on their imperial altar in Iran.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:44 pmHELLO, AMERICA!Is anyone home? Is anyone awake? Does anyone give a shit?
Neocons suffer from psychophallystisis. Honestly, they have never seen a military attack that doesn’t give them wood. If they nuked England, they would find some reason why it was GREAT! I don’t think Fred Barnes has any gonads of his own. They are all the wimpiest human beings on their own. Only brave when someone else is doing the fighting for them…….then orgasm.
When Iran invades Iraq to pay back the nearest available Americans, then there will be hell to pay. But not for the filthy cowardly neocons. No they will be back here at home; safe from any direct carnage—busy justifying why they are always right about some meddling or bombing or invasion or USA sponsored terrorism (a.k.a “freedom fighters”). A damned cowardly lot of stratego players, the lot of them.
Hey, whatever it takes to hold on the political power.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:45 pmHere we go again, cleaning up another crisis unresolved by the Democrats.
Cohen Says Iran Testing Missile
Associated Press
June 17, 1997
Iran’s air force has conducted its first test launches of a newly acquired anti-ship cruise missile , Defense Secretary William Cohen disclosed today in arguing that Iran is a threat to world commerce
The United States is concerned about Iran’s increasingly sophisticated military clout, particularly its arsenal of cruise missiles , Cohen said at a news conference. Because they fly low, cruise missiles are difficult to detect on radar
Cohen, on the other hand, has said the Clinton administration will not ease its stance against Iran until Iran ends its support for terrorism, gives up trying to develop nuclear weapons and stops trying to undermine the Middle East peace process. Iran denies such conduct
April 4th, 2006 at 10:46 pmHe is a complete idiot, ne’er-do-well and everything he touches turns to crap so, yes, he probably will continue to ruin the U.S. with a military stirke on Iran. How else will his poll numbers rise?
April 4th, 2006 at 10:50 pmWhat do Democrats propose we do? Appeasement?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
Remarks before the American-Iranian Council
March 17, 2000
“It is no secret that, for two decades, most Americans have viewed Iran primarily through the prism of the U.S. Embassy takeover in 1979, accompanied as it was by the taking of hostages, hateful rhetoric and the burning of the U.S. flag. Through the years, this grim view is reinforced by the Iranian Government’s repression at home and its support for terrorism abroad; by its assistance to groups violently opposed to the Middle East peace process; and by its effort to develop a nuclear weapons capability.”
April 4th, 2006 at 10:55 pmThe Democrats, in both houses of Congress, were timid, if not non-existent, in challenging Bush’s rationale to wage war against Iraq. Will they be just as pusillanimous questioniong this administration’s invasion and/or bombing plans against Iran? These same questions should be asked of the Republicans, who apparently have to be constantly reminded that they took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, which is in direct contrast to their continually placating the wishes and desires of this current corrupt and immoral administration.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:58 pmYes we all know that if George Bush happened to have blood in his stool, you idiots would say it’s Clintons fault.
Yes, of course that’s obvious! Waaa Waaa Waaa Clintons fault. Global warming CLintons fault. Jack Abramoff, Clintons fault. Why W. was AWOL, Clintons fault!!!
Before all of this asinine threatening and posturing IRAN WAS TURNING MODERATE. The more extreme we act, the more extreme they act.
This lesson is never learned by the ignorant.
WAAAAA WAAAA WAAAAA CLintons fault! He made the market crash. WAAAAH.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:59 pmThe Republicans opposed Clinton’s attempts to assasinate bin laden and attack the sudanase target thought linked to al qaeda. There was some noise about Kosovo as well.
The issue there was that they were all air campaigns. Kosovo targeted most of the civilian infrastructure after military targets were exhausted.
That’s what they want to do here. Honestly, I would rather Iran not have the bomb so all the other neighboring countries don’t build one. Israel isn’t an excuse. It’s a democracy with some sane leadership.
This is also a losing position.
If Democrats want to be known as the people that let Iran nuke NYC down the road – an exageration but enabling a nuke test – that’s a real negative for our party.
Targeted strikes do not equal neoconservatism. There’s NO REASON to change Iran. There is plently of reason to destroy their installed infrastructure .
As forthe terrorist garbage, if Iran followed through no one would deal with them. Their economy would implode. Their people would revolt if the oil revenues did not resume. You might even get a modernizer.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:04 pmOver the years, in my opinion, Joseph Cirincione has earned credibility. And when I read this piece yesterday, I felt a chill up my spine. I believe the Bush cabal has a plan to begin another crusade. Bush did not misspeak in 2001 when he uttered the word crusade — it was a Freudian slip — an inadvertant admission of the grand plan.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:08 pmActually, there was a problem with Albright, Cohen, and Woolsey. They were too damned hawkish, if not war mongering in their postures.
This was a problem of the previous administration….they adopted the tough posturing of the past two administrations. Of course, they never supported Saddam, so that’s a little better than H.W. or R.R.
The DLC is done too. One more attack and there will be no support for the Lieberman position.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:09 pmwhat a great idea! what a fantastic way to win the hearts and minds of muslims all over the world.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:28 pmThey can bomb Iran.
They can nuke Iran too.
But, they cannot invade Iran without drafting YOUR children. They will declare martial law and they will begin a draft. Those concentration camps being built in the US would be for whom? All who disagree, who are Muslim, who are gay …etc.
Welcome to the Neocon world. Take pictures. It won’t last long. None of us will.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:31 pmBush is certified insane and wants to ignite global WWIII, so his Regime plans on bombing Iran probably by the end of this April, which means destruction for our nation in the end! Shame on all those fools in Congress who are allowing this to happen!
April 4th, 2006 at 11:48 pmIt’s not too surprising that the stage is being set to strike Iran. We all know that if Iraq had gone more according to plan (wait, what’s that? Oh right, there wasn’t really a plan period beyond the deposing Sadaam part!) we would already have been trading bombs with Iran. Marketing? The whole nuclear capabilities issue with the UN? But the Security Council is balking against doing what the US wants? Can you say deja vu?
April 5th, 2006 at 12:15 amBut now the administration has been really clever. They’ve got Europe almost tied down to supporting his war-happy initiative this time, because they’re more or less on the same page in terms of Iran being a threat. Maybe they don’t want to go to war, but Russia and China won’t even agree to sanctions, so the administration is going to be going nuts getting them to support us on this one. For those of you worried about the draft, this is crucial, because they WON’T do a draft, the administration don’t seem to understand the concept of collective self-sacrifice (really collective, not tongue-in-cheek collective). They will get the draftees from other countries to do it, and hey, we’re dismantling bases around the world, right? What else would those poor soldiers have to do with their time?
Iran was on the agenda from the beginning. I wasn’t sure if they’d actually go through with it or not because of the disaster they got us into in Iraq. But I forget; the President’s motto is after all “Stay the course.”
Yes post 30 > everyone who helps Bush to attack Iran is a fool and every Bush lover who thinks it is wonderful is a crazy lunatic as well!
April 5th, 2006 at 12:21 amA military strike on Iran is something we can’t rule out. Now I believe the Administration should try for a diplomatic solution first, but we should also prepare for a military solution.
April 5th, 2006 at 12:23 amthe draft will show once and for all who is with or against this crap. but remember these people will be hella trained to kill by the time they get back.
April 5th, 2006 at 12:47 amlol and would putting them in uraniums way make this tard see the wrongs of his ways? or would he use their eventual deformaties or deaths as some kind of sociopathic advertisement?
April 5th, 2006 at 1:09 amThe ramifications of such an attack could be disastrous…
But it’s the only thing that could possibly get the GOP through the elections, so … why hasn’t the bombing started yet?
April 5th, 2006 at 1:17 amMore focus needs to be put on Afghanistan and bin Laden. There’s no denying that.
And just so you know, if Iran threatens the U.S. with nuclear weapons, yes, I will volunteer.
April 5th, 2006 at 1:21 amGiving W control of the country is equivalent to handing the car keys to a twelve year old. Neither is mature enough to handle the situation. My only prayer is that humanity makes it past this bump in the road.
April 5th, 2006 at 1:25 amNo more wars with this clown in office,please.
April 5th, 2006 at 2:47 amHow about hitting the officials instead?
April 5th, 2006 at 3:35 amIs anybody else getting the strange feeling that Fallout might not, actually, have been far off the mark?
War, war never changes…
April 5th, 2006 at 4:28 amWho was screaming “ALQEDA DOSNT EXIST” and “NO WAR FOR MONICA” ????
nahhh not the republicans.
April 5th, 2006 at 4:54 amTIGER
TIGER
BURNING BRIGHT
U.S.A
NEVER RIGHT!
STOP WAR!
U DESTRUCTORS!!!
April 5th, 2006 at 5:24 am“Secretary of State Madeleine Albright…” — Desert Fox
Albright’s perspective WAS NOT INHERENTLY SHARED BY THE PARTY. Your smear is false on its face.
“The Democrats, in both houses of Congress, were timid, if not non-existent, in challenging Bush’s rationale to wage war against Iraq.”
Oh, really. The Dem vote in the House was 60-40 NAY, with change of leader to the FIRST WOMAN TO HOLD THE POSITION OF MAJORITY LEADER.
You also fail to note the COERCION: the Wellstone assassination, the ANTHRAX attacks on our leaders (not theirs), the name-calling on the floor of the Congress, the LIES of nuclear potential spread far and wide in serial Executive impeachable acts, the media refusing to cover Dem responses, giving a false impression — THAT INCLUDES DEMOCRACY NOW!’S REFUSAL TO COVER DEMOCRATIC RESPONSES.
“this current corrupt and immoral administration.” Erroll
IS A COUP. The Rebuplican party is THOROUGHLY BUSHED. They have violated every tenet in the Constitution already, so why the pretense? The Dems are loyal; while the R leadership in Congress are CO-CONSPIRATORS against the nation.
Scapegoating the Dems does not solve our problem.
Bush is not ‘bumbling’ into another war. THIS WAR HAS BEEN PLANNED WELL IN ADVANCE, JUST LIKE IRAQ.
What we need is JUSTICE, and for Bush to RESIGN.
CALLING FOR THAT IS YOUR JOB, AND YOU CAN’T JUST FOIST IT OFF ON THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS. Scapegoating the minority is NOT a strategy with a chance of success.
April 5th, 2006 at 5:29 amSorry, position of MINORITY leader.
Btw, you may not be aware that the Congressional research budget is NIL. The Congress does not generally have the ability to gather data to disprove a lying Executive on intelligence. The Conyers Report (’Constitution in Crisis’), the Waxman reports (many), and other such reports have been promulgated on thin resources, AND THE EXECUTIVE HAS FAILED TO RESPOND TO ANY OF THEM.
Without the R leadership shifting the power of the Congress to FORMAL INVESTIGATIONS there is very little way to bring a successful counter forward, as Conyers, Fitzgerald, Waxman, and many others have said. THE SHITEHOUSE IS GUILTY OF MULTIPLE ACTS OF OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS, and the R Congress has blocked the REQUIRED impeachment proceedings from attending that violation of their oaths of office.
And the media has universally REFUSED to mention it.
So again, blaming the minority is KARL’S WORK. I hope you LOVE your pat on the head.
April 5th, 2006 at 5:38 amGreat article, I recommend reading in full. Does this mean we’re watching a trailer for episode 3?
April 5th, 2006 at 7:28 amOh, man. Party like it’s 2003.
I have the latest Maureen Dowd up, btw.
JP
April 5th, 2006 at 7:59 amhttp://jurassicpork.blogspot.com
@Bruce Gorton
April 5th, 2006 at 8:49 ambetter get your MKII adv power armor now before the army tries to sell you the Brotherhood crap
Start building your underground bunkers.
April 5th, 2006 at 8:50 amNow I am convinced that Bush and the other Christian lemmings are trying to jumpstart the Rhapsody..Rapture…Armageddon or whatever the hell they call it. I may be a simple Texas bumpkin but refresh my memory about our recent, glowing military successes in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan…Oh hell, anywhere. Iranians will probably greet us by tossing flowers at us. See you in hell Senor Bush.
April 5th, 2006 at 8:54 amC’mon, all you warmongering chickenhawk keyboard warriors–your country calls! There’s more to winning wars than invading “liberal” websites and smiting the heathens with text. Get thee to the recruiting center and put your ass on the line–and give those weary fingers a break.
April 5th, 2006 at 9:12 amAre we 1 minute to midnight yet?
April 5th, 2006 at 9:39 amGood posts all……Another war, same shit. We are a breath away from having to bend over and kiss our own asses good bye, thank’s to the extreme reich wing nut jobs wanting their total power over all of us and the world or trying to bring on their armagedon. No matter their reasoning, it is wrong, sick and distructive. All our leaders are at fault, by design or enabling the waramongers. If we don’t get all of them out of office quickly this Iran mess will be another Iraq only worse. We must understand, people, our country is the agressors, the invaders, the arrogant liers and thieves. We, under the control of this administration are the bad guys. Get together, boot them out of office, now……Impeach, indict and jail….Blessings
April 5th, 2006 at 9:47 amare we suppose to be alarmed by this, (that iran is next)?
April 5th, 2006 at 9:53 amwill itl be another ’slam dunk’ mr cheney? these war mongers have to be stopped.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:08 amwill it be another ’slam dunk’ mr cheney? these war mongers have to be stopped.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:08 amNo fears, guys. They will greet us with candy and flowers, and their oil will pay for the whole thing, and it should only take a few weeks. Worst case, we’ll be there six months.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:16 amSenior U.S. Officials “Want to Hit Iranâ€
I don’t think they are quite that insane.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:17 amI also don’t believe the rubber stampers are going to hold their rubber stamp form on this issue.
They would be afraid for their own lives.
They know very well that the people have seen way more than enough out of the War Pigs.
Time for change, bitches.
The slobs that support junior’s criminals will soon be applying for work at the local toothpick recycle center.
Come on folks, most of you have it wrong. It has been in the planning stages since bushistas took office, and Israel has agreed, that it will be Israel that will make the first strikes on Iran.
Bushco will direct Israel to bomb targets in Iran, and will furnish them MORE nuclear weapons to do the job. Then, when Iran rataliates against Israel, this country will come to their defense.
It is already in the works to attack Iran with nuclear weapons, bet on it, count on it.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:18 amWe’ve all seen this movie before.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:32 amBush will attack Iran just before the 2006 elections.
Then he and Karl Rove will use his military action politically in order to attack Democrats.
Meanwhile, Rove’s foot soldiers will be pumping up the anti-Latino and anti-gay hatred.
If the Bush/Cheney administration thinks they can do this without a peep from the American public, they are mistaken.
An attack on Iran before November’s elections will quickly produce multi million people protests that will completely shut down Washington D.C., as well as other major cities.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:33 amMy daughter will soon be 17 – close to draft age. WHEN, not if, they reinstate the draft, I will hide her for as long as it takes. She will not fight in Bush’s war!!
April 5th, 2006 at 10:41 amHoly God, that’s just what we need.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:43 amWe are in a “culture of war,” worse than we have ever seen, under this administration with it’s doctrine of preemption.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:57 amScott Ritter has an interesting essay written this week:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12592.htm
It does not matter that a “military solution” will be no “solution” in Iran and only make matters worse worldwide for the US. It only matters that an attack on Iran will help the terrorist organization known as “The Republican Party” distract from its own political problems at home.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:59 am.
Here we go again, cleaning up another crisis unresolved by the Democrats.
Different war, same Useful Idiots, same clipped quotes.
Thanks for letting us down again, you vapid hole. Your ignorance has been weaponized against your own country.
Not that you give a fuck about your country, but I thought you should know.
April 5th, 2006 at 11:04 am.
Yes Mr. Texan, I agree with you. After all it was the democrats who gave/sold weapons to Iran wasn’t it….oh yeah, it wasn’t.
Are you lucky enough to live in an area that is not as, shall we say loaded with the idiocy of the reich wing? I am not!!
They are stupid and that makes me sad!
April 5th, 2006 at 11:11 amWhat to do when your cronies are being indicted and taken off to prison right and left and your poll numbers are in the toilet?
Try and get some sex on the news to take everyone’s (the media’s) attention OFF the fire in your own backyard. Then you start another war.
Ever notice that when a shrub is anywhere NEAR the white house (and the term WHITE house has NEVER BEEN more appropriate than now) there is some scandal, and war?
This family is toxic. This family is criminal and needs to go.
April 5th, 2006 at 12:26 pm# 17 – ATTENTION REPUBLICANS :12 years of Reagan and BushI. 8 probably, years of BushII. 12 years of a republican congress. Anything and everything observable in, of, and by the US government is the SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GOP. Ignorant, hateful motherfuckers like desert fox here need that hammered into their heads with massive, ball-peen hammers. If it is fucked up, the Republicans are who fucked it up - A-Z, soup-to-nuts. The GOP and thier dumbshit supporters will preside over the absolute end of the American dream, then the richest of them will flee the country and leave us as a 3rd world colony. I hope the desert foxes will all be very satisified with owing their souls to the company store.
April 5th, 2006 at 12:45 pmWait a sec – there I went blaming Republicans, when really, as I’ve just found out, it was the bad old liberal media.
“This has been a tough war for commentators on the American left. … Liberal writers for ideologically driven magazines like The Nation and for less overtly political ones like The New Yorker did not predict a defeat, but the terrible consequences many warned of have not happened. Now liberal commentators must address the victory at hand and confront an ascendant conservative juggernaut that asserts U.S. might can set the world right.” (New York Times reporter David Carr, 4/16/03)
April 5th, 2006 at 1:00 pmLittle did those 62 million Bushite inbreds know…
…that when they voted to re-elect the TREASONOUS criminal Bushite junta…
…they were voting for a murder-suicide pact…
…America is about to experience…
…death by Bushiva…
April 5th, 2006 at 1:11 pmAccording to my friends in Iraq and elsewhere, serving with our armed services, the Military has been quietly shifting forces in preparation for an attack. The are thousands of troops on the Iraq side of the border, that while they are attempting to keep out the influx of terrorists, they are also preparing to repel any retaliation by Iran. Thousands more troops in the northern part of Iraq also have contingency plans to move to the border if Iran is attacked. The thought being that Iran will attempt to launch a ground war with U.S. forces if we go in and blow up there nuke program.
There also have been reports, some published some not, that the U.S. is moving more bombers to the gulf region. Rumor has it they are also bringing in a number of the larger cargo planes capable of quickly moving tanks and artillery.
So yea, if it’s not already enough of a shit show over there, it appears Cheney, i mean bush, wants to make it more of one.
April 5th, 2006 at 1:18 pmPerpetual war is a necessity for corportations, our government, our stability, to keep the populace in their place. Iran has been on the agenda for a long time. Right before the election is a good time, it will be the election cry.
April 5th, 2006 at 2:09 pmwell, we COULD put money towards the younger generation in Iran, you know the ones calling for democracy? of coarse, that would mean that we would have to give them democratic controll over their resources too, that includes oil, so that wouldn’t work. we’ll just do what all brain dead right wing fascists do, bomb the hell out of them, take their resources, ignore the COSTS of the venture and attack anyone domestically who tries to be the voice of reason. when we get counter attacked, they’ll use it as justification for our original attack and all the brain dead idiot rush limbaugh listeners will say “see, told you so”. this country is going down in a flame of ignorance. it didn’t have to be this way.
April 5th, 2006 at 2:25 pmIsraeli election is over – it’s now THEIR turn to “bring peace and stability to the Middle East”…. this is too complicated a situation for the US military, it’s much simpler if IDF takes care of the problem – after all, Iran has called for “Death to Israel”, so who could blame them for taking action?
Watch for replay of Israeli attack on French-supplied Iraqi reactor.
April 5th, 2006 at 3:50 pm“Watch for replay of Israeli attack on French-supplied Iraqi reactor.” –Steve
Watch as Israel disappears in a cloud of dust.
“Iran is not Iraq.” — U.S. Secretary of State
April 5th, 2006 at 4:44 pmThe Republicans opposed Clinton’s attempts to assasinate bin laden and attack the sudanase target thought linked to al qaeda.
It was an vital aspirin factory that was bombed in Sudan. For once, the repukes were right.
April 5th, 2006 at 5:52 pmBush did not misspeak in 2001 when he uttered the word crusade — it was a Freudian slip — an inadvertant admission of the grand plan.
Comment by Marie — April 4, 2006 @ 11:08 pm
I’m certain that you are right about this. As much as I am that he did not misspeak when he told an audience that we would NOT have an all volunteer army. They booed, and he rephrased it to say that we would have one. We already don’t when people are being forced to re-enlist or stay longer than intended. It’s all ready NOT all voluntary.
I think that sometimes, when you are juggling so many lies, some of the truths inadvertently get uttered by mistake.
April 5th, 2006 at 6:43 pm$10-A-GALLON GAS! (if we’re lucky) Now, if that potential outcome of this action doesn’t prompt impeachment, what will?
April 5th, 2006 at 7:01 pmTo Creepy Jackalope Eye and Desert Fox, let me say this:
The real problem is that Bush is not the best guy to have in office while
the US is at war. Keep in mind his currently 0 for 2 on the battlefield -
We have not won in Afghanistan and the war there is far from over,
and, we are clearly losing in Iraq and things will get worse there as well.
The problem is why should we trust a proven loser to open a third
front ???????
If he cannot win the first two how the heck is going to win a third ?????
I say we hold off as long as possible and wait for a real man to take office
April 5th, 2006 at 8:19 pmbefore we dive into Iran.
No one has ever accused the ‘Mayberry Machiavellis’ of being overly bright. BTW; if I get another draft notice, I WILL burn it this time, and shout in the streets “HELL NO,I WON’T GO!”. I did my bit for ‘king and country’ during Vietnam via the draft.
April 5th, 2006 at 9:31 pm”For King and the Country
April 6th, 2006 at 3:16 amand the long dying day;
It’s been this way
for five long years,
Since we signed our souls away”.
do you really think that the iranians just want to get along with us? let’s say we do nothing and let them finish their nuclear bomb…do you think they won’t use it? the liberals were chickenshits with hitler and they are that way now.
August 24th, 2006 at 7:23 pmNo one can effectively invade Iran and hold it long term. Iran is a republic of toughened people. Attacking Iran simply rasies the tension levels and is very conducive for certain people, groups and industries. It will finally lead to a worse form of mess than we have in Iraq, a liability that the world will pay for in the coming decades.
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