Comments on: ‘Imminent.’ http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:24:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: James http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3790892 James Tue, 08 May 2007 02:36:38 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3790892 Um, I don't think she was literally defining the word "imminent." She was merely relating the questions that must be addressed in an "imminent situation." Um, I don’t think she was literally defining the word “imminent.” She was merely relating the questions that must be addressed in an “imminent situation.”

]]> By: Bat Guano http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3777096 Bat Guano Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:12:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3777096 It's obvious. She means that it was the U.S. who was the imminent threat at the time, not Iraq. It’s obvious. She means that it was the U.S. who was the imminent threat at the time, not Iraq.

]]> By: the republic of stupidity http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3777057 the republic of stupidity Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:32:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3777057 Interesting... I wonder how Condi's dictionary defines "mendacity", or "prevaricate", or "corrupt", "homicidal", "delusional", and hopefully "convicted' and "incarcerated". Interesting… I wonder how Condi’s dictionary defines “mendacity”, or “prevaricate”, or “corrupt”, “homicidal”, “delusional”, and hopefully “convicted’ and “incarcerated”.

]]> By: dumbstruck http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3777027 dumbstruck Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:46:18 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3777027 Imminent is fear word. Put "imminent" in front of anything and you automatically scare little old ladies and neo con bootlickers. Imminent is fear word.

Put “imminent” in front of anything and you automatically scare little old ladies and neo con bootlickers.

]]> By: ace http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3777014 ace Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:52:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3777014 RICE – The enabler of Armageddon: Secretary of State Rice's response to the disaster in New Orleans was: "The Lord Jesus Christ is going to come on time." She added: "If we just wait." "On time"? How does Rice know the exact time Armageddon starts? “If we just wait”? That means in her, that is our, lifetime! By using NSA intelligence to set an invisible tripwire, the Bush administration is laying the condition for regional conflagration with untold consequences -- from Pakistan to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Israel. Secretly devising a scheme that might thrust Israel into a ring of fire cannot be construed as a blunder. It is a deliberate, calculated and methodical plot. In order to try to understand the neoconservative road map, senior national security professionals have begun circulating among themselves a 1996 neocon manifesto against the Middle East peace process. Titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," its half-dozen authors included neoconservatives highly influential with the Bush administration -- Richard Perle, first-term chairman of the Defense Policy Board; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense; and David Wurmser, Cheney's chief Middle East aide. Richard Haass, the Middle East advisor on the elder Bush's National Security Council and President Bush's first-term State Department policy planning director, and now president of the Council on Foreign Relations, openly scoffed at Bush's Middle East policy in an interview on July 30 in the Washington Post: "The arrows are all pointing in the wrong direction. The biggest danger in the short run is it just increases frustration and alienation from the United States in the Arab world. Not just the Arab world, but in Europe and around the world. People will get a daily drumbeat of suffering in Lebanon and this will just drive up anti-Americanism to new heights." When asked about the president's optimism, he replied, "An opportunity? Lord, spare me. I don't laugh a lot. That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. If this is an opportunity, what's Iraq? A once-in-a-lifetime chance?" It is a deliberate, calculated and methodical plot. "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" Meyrav Wurmser was its author. http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/salon027.html RICE – The enabler of Armageddon:

Secretary of State Rice’s response to the disaster in New Orleans was: “The Lord Jesus Christ is going to come on time.” She added: “If we just wait.” “On time”? How does Rice know the exact time Armageddon starts? “If we just wait”? That means in her, that is our, lifetime!

By using NSA intelligence to set an invisible tripwire, the Bush administration is laying the condition for regional conflagration with untold consequences — from Pakistan to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Israel. Secretly devising a scheme that might thrust Israel into a ring of fire cannot be construed as a blunder. It is a deliberate, calculated and methodical plot.

In order to try to understand the neoconservative road map, senior national security professionals have begun circulating among themselves a 1996 neocon manifesto against the Middle East peace process. Titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” its half-dozen authors included neoconservatives highly influential with the Bush administration — Richard Perle, first-term chairman of the Defense Policy Board; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense; and David Wurmser, Cheney’s chief Middle East aide.

Richard Haass, the Middle East advisor on the elder Bush’s National Security Council and President Bush’s first-term State Department policy planning director, and now president of the Council on Foreign Relations, openly scoffed at Bush’s Middle East policy in an interview on July 30 in the Washington Post:

“The arrows are all pointing in the wrong direction. The biggest danger in the short run is it just increases frustration and alienation from the United States in the Arab world. Not just the Arab world, but in Europe and around the world. People will get a daily drumbeat of suffering in Lebanon and this will just drive up anti-Americanism to new heights.” When asked about the president’s optimism, he replied, “An opportunity? Lord, spare me. I don’t laugh a lot. That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. If this is an opportunity, what’s Iraq? A once-in-a-lifetime chance?”

It is a deliberate, calculated and methodical plot.

“A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”

Meyrav Wurmser was its author.

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/salon027.html

]]> By: Jim http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3777002 Jim Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:23:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3777002 I can't believe that four years have passed and journalists are just now getting around to trying to nail the BushCo language down. I can’t believe that four years have passed and journalists are just now getting around to trying to nail the BushCo language down.

]]> By: Gregor Samsa http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776982 Gregor Samsa Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:03:05 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776982 Translation: Imminent is whatever I can get away with. Translation: Imminent is whatever I can get away with.

]]> By: Scott http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776922 Scott Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:41:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776922 that depends on what your definition of "is" is Condi that depends on what your definition of “is” is Condi

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776892 JPark Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:05:43 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776892 #85 She is a loyal Bushite. There is no other trait necessary. #85 She is a loyal Bushite. There is no other trait necessary.

]]> By: Jay Randal http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776887 Jay Randal Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:59:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776887 JPark > Condi is an Uncle Tom, but she did not climb her way up the ladder of power by her intellect. I have not seen one bit of intelligence in anything she has said or done as Secretary of State. JPark > Condi is an Uncle Tom, but she did not climb her way up the ladder of power by her intellect. I have not seen one bit of intelligence in anything she has said or done as Secretary of State.

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776882 JPark Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:56:07 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776882 #82 I disagree. She knows she is a lying whore. She is a sellout of the highest degree. My great, great, great aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe would call her an Uncle Tom. #82 I disagree. She knows she is a lying whore. She is a sellout of the highest degree. My great, great, great aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe would call her an Uncle Tom.

]]> By: JPark http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776881 JPark Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:54:24 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776881 Somehow I think Condi's dictionary (along with the rest of the neocon's and their harem) is a bit different than Webster's. Somehow I think Condi’s dictionary (along with the rest of the neocon’s and their harem) is a bit different than Webster’s.

]]> By: Jay Randal http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776872 Jay Randal Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:42:42 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776872 Condi Rice is actually a dunce who slept her way into her position. Condi Rice is actually a dunce who slept her way into her position.

]]> By: darby1936 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776834 darby1936 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:47:18 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776834 This administration was almost drunk with hubris after the CIA, the Northern Alliance and our air power deposed the Taliban. Preemption was the new policy. Bush was telling the rest of the world they were either with us or against us. Pride damn well went before the fall. This administration was almost drunk with hubris after the CIA, the Northern Alliance and our air power deposed the Taliban. Preemption was the new policy. Bush was telling the rest of the world they were either with us or against us. Pride damn well went before the fall.

]]> By: ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776823 ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:39:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776823 <em>Briseadh na Faire. Yeah, Bush is an idiot. But, it is worth remembering, he beat the best your party could offer. Twice. Comment by paul — April 29, 2007 @ 9:54 pm</em> Yeah, he SINGLE HANDEDLY beat Gore by losing by a half million votes, and then surviving a rigged vote in Florida, thanks to his buddies on the Supreme Court. Yeah, that's the kind of *victory*, than normally people equate with gambling houses that have their tables smashed by gaming wardens. You're an idi*t. Briseadh na Faire. Yeah, Bush is an idiot. But, it is worth remembering, he beat the best your party could offer. Twice. Comment by paul — April 29, 2007 @ 9:54 pm

Yeah, he SINGLE HANDEDLY beat Gore by losing by a half million votes, and then surviving a rigged vote in Florida, thanks to his buddies on the Supreme Court. Yeah, that’s the kind of *victory*, than normally people equate with gambling houses that have their tables smashed by gaming wardens.

You’re an idi*t.

]]> By: Angry One http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776820 Angry One Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:37:33 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776820 On Wednesday May 1st, the United States will mark the fourth anniversary of President Bush's declaration of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. But as the carnage continues and the war funding debate rages, President Bush and allies in the conservative amen corners can only offer the American people recycled talking points to sell his catastrophically ill-conceived war without end. For a look back at four years of wartime marketing gone bad, see: <b><a href="http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000599.htm" rel="nofollow">"Mission Accomplished: 4 Years of GOP Iraq Talking Points."</a></b> On Wednesday May 1st, the United States will mark the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s declaration of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq. But as the carnage continues and the war funding debate rages, President Bush and allies in the conservative amen corners can only offer the American people recycled talking points to sell his catastrophically ill-conceived war without end.

For a look back at four years of wartime marketing gone bad, see:
“Mission Accomplished: 4 Years of GOP Iraq Talking Points.”

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776809 Zooey Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:19:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776809 <em>That is the strangest definition of “imminent” I’ve ever read. Comment by kelso </em> Things are strange when pulled out of one's butt. That is the strangest definition of “imminent” I’ve ever read.
Comment by kelso

Things are strange when pulled out of one’s butt.

]]> By: Zooey http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776806 Zooey Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:11:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776806 <em>Zooey. It was the best I could do. Alot of these posts are too complicated (or boring) for my ADHD brain. Comment by paul </em> That explains a lot. Zooey. It was the best I could do. Alot of these posts are too complicated (or boring) for my ADHD brain.
Comment by paul

That explains a lot.

]]> By: kelso http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776801 kelso Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:07:32 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776801 That is the strangest definition of "imminent" I've ever read. That is the strangest definition of “imminent” I’ve ever read.

]]> By: paul http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/comment-page-2/#comment-3776800 paul Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:06:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/29/imminent/#comment-3776800 Zooey. It was the best I could do. Alot of these posts are too complicated (or boring) for my ADHD brain. Zooey. It was the best I could do. Alot of these posts are too complicated (or boring) for my ADHD brain.

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