Comment by Tobey Tall

Why do you suppose that Iran has a need for Nuclear power generators? Sitting on top of a huge percentage of the worlds oil supply they can easily generate electricity from oil. It’s actually costlier for them to go the nuclear route.

Why does it seem incredibly ridicules that I would need to point this out?

“Mission Accomplished”

What we have here right now is a humanitarian effort for the benefit of the Iraqi people. The fact is being hidden that the other oil producing countries are strategically opposed to Iraqi competition on the oil market as a democracy. You have to look at motive them simply consider that a democratic Iraq is a threat to the current status quo. And don’t give this bologna about Iran being a democracy either.

Once you have established that simple fact it becomes obvious considering that Iran and Syria are assisting the Mahidi army that they are indeed on the side of evil.

The problem is the Democrats have been given total freedom to play armchair quarter back with impunity by the media. They are the spoilers in the War against Terrorism” once again look at who benefits and you have motive. The problem is with this strategy we all loose. I disagree with Bush caving in to their game in hopes that he will gain an ally in the war instead they will only take the knife that they have imbedded into Bush’s back and twist and slash for better effect.

The only way to level the playing field is if the media properly informs the public a properly informed public will do the right thing. This idea of posturing for a Vietnam scenario in order to wreak the benefit of preaching a false story of failure instead of the real story of betrayal does no one any good.

Consider this if we only went after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Our troops get hit with WMD’s Shall I remind you of the 50 or so quotes by high level Democrats touting the thread that Saddam poses to National security? These going back into the 90’s? If it had happened we would sure be hearing about how Bush screwed up by not covering our flank side and addressing the Iraq problem.

When the world can see that Iraq is a problem that deserves to be looked at as a humanitarian issue and sees the true picture of what the problem is. Instead of a Bush vs. the world and the Democrats on the side of the world issue as it has been framed. There never will be a good ending to this story.

you missed my point ENTIRELY

maybe the video is a contributing factor to PTSD.

….zing!!!

Anyway, seems as though perhaps Gates may have learned from his mistakes? Let’s hope…

Comment by SouthPaw — December 5, 2006 @ 2:20 pm

Just forgive him,……………..just like that.

Boy oh boy,have your standards for personnel in the fed.govt really taken a dive…..Learned from his “mistakes”Is that what you categorize IranContra as?………….a mistake?

It was a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE contrived and carried out by our ELECTED OFFICIALS.Nope sorry,……a “mistake” won`t apply here.

When we can all agree that Iran Contra was,……..”just a mistake” …and gaff it off like you do,we are really doomed as a people.

I am glad you are in the minority as far as Gates is concerned. This “premeditated slight” called IranContra is only the really bad stuff that got DISCOVERED.

I would love to read the official dossier on all the other “unmentionables” concerning this man.

Comment by Tank — December 6, 2006 @ 6:57 am

It shows.Believe me it shows.It`s all in your shitty demeanor I suppose.

LMAO. PrisonPlanet… where those fed up with the lies of the MSM go to get their news… where they even manage to fit two lies into just the title of the article. Seriously LMAO.

This is neither “another” video nor a “snuff video”. It’s the same one documenting a beating (a beating in a war zone!?) you’d remember from last year if you’d given a crap at the time.

I don’t know where you grew up but I used to catch beatings for all manner of things, none of which approach that. If I was throwing rocks at armed soldiers in a war zone I would have expected to be shot. This stuff isn’t complicated. Get some perspective.

This is more or less what Bush said albeit on Iraq at the same time the airforce was on a “full air offensive” in september 2002, nice diplomacy…….

Here’s a reminder of those day’s, the 48 Hour speech:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.html

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, November 17, 2006

British troops punch, beat and kick pleading Iraqi children as a sadistic comrade films the brutal scenes of torture, laughing, screaming, growling and frothing like a serial killer filming a snuff movie. This is why the Iraqis hate us.

Iraqi children throw rocks as they flee from running British troops, are grabbed, brought inside a gate and beaten half to death. Watch the video below. The censorship spies at You Tube rejected it 2 minutes after upload so I re-named it “Fluffy Happy Poodles In Heaven,” to try and bypass their keyword filters and it was still rejected. I even renamed the actual ‘wmv’ filename but it was still blocked for “terms of use violation.” I finally managed to get it posted on Google Video. If it disappears again, here’s the Windows Media link on our server.

November 19th: Google removed the video too! So here’s an old copy the censors at You Tube missed.

They keep killing this guys video so here is the link

http://prisonplanet.com/video/171106beating.wmv

share it with all you know.burn it to cd pass them out.it will diappear for good soon I fear.

get it while it lives,as a policy changer.

FFS already. How many times has this been written on this blog now ? 200 ? Could you look any less clued in ?
What good diplomacy options are there to stem Iran’s nuclear program if there is no military threat ? Eh ?
Ever heard the term “sabre rattling” ? Refers to the threat of attack without actually drawing a weapon. Just like what’s been happening. Still no clue ?

You must actually be in the scaremongering business yourself Thinkprogress at the same time you are chastising the Bush administration for it.
I’m not sure short term memory loss or blatant stupidy is enough to explain yet another “OMG they’s talking about attacking Iran!!!!” story right next to yet another story where the fact that the military cannot afford to commit an extra 20k troops to Iraq. Haven’t joined those two dots in about 2 years so far and it doesn’t look like you will yet.

Yeah keep the diplomacy insights coming Thinkprogress. Awesome stuff.

Is not the United States already in violation of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty just like England, France, and the others who agreed to destroy their own nuclear weapons in return for other nations not developing nuclear weapons in the first place?

If it is “right” for the UN to put sanctions on Iran, who has NOT broken the NPT by enriching uranium, then it must be even more “right” for the UN to put sanctions on the United States who has broken the NPT by not destroying its nuclear weapons and by designing new ones?

Why are not these questions asked?

worsen the violence in Iraq and lead to greater American casualties

We’re paying these people to come up with this sh!t?

The game of politics is disgusting. What’s the point of asking these stupid questions that have no meaning and no straight answers? Did he say “No” to the question? No, he didn’t. They’re just there to put on a show for those in the world who are stupid enough to read something into what they say, and to get the braindead media to make a headline out of the exchange.

Another day in the do-nothing world of U.S. government.