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Time for Boehner to update his website on Iran.»

House Minority Leader John Boehner’s (R-OH) website contains a section on “Winning the Global War on Terror,” which warns that Iran is “governed by a fanatic and actively building nuclear weapons”:

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After today’s NIE, looks like Boehner will need to change his site. (Contact his office HERE.)




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49 Responses to “Time for Boehner to update his website on Iran.”

  1. Mimo Says:

    Boner is stupid and ignorant.Iran is not governed by a single man, but a whole teocratic regime.


  2. GSD Says:

    Don’t make John Boehner(R-Skin Cancer) cry again.

    -GSD


  3. Badmoodman Says:

    NOW you did it, TP! You’ve upset Boehner and we’ll be subjected to more crocodile tears.


  4. gummitch Says:

    I’m sure he’ll get right on that. Sheesh.


  5. Juan C. Says:

    You are gonna make me cry…


  6. tarazan Says:

    As a Minority leader in the House , he is 2 years behind..surprise..surprise.
    Did he cry when he heard the news about Iran..?!!


  7. raynman Says:

    I’m sure that he’s trying to find someone to change that right away.

    He’d do it himself, but he’s afraid the tears would short out his keyboard….


  8. StratRat Says:

    I’ll bet you all lunch that the reference is not taken down.


  9. missmolly Says:

    I figure the site hasn’t been changed yet (and it still hasn’t — I just checked) because:

    1) It’s Monday, and you know how busy Mondays get for grunt workers like the one who has to keep the site updated (as a grunt worker myself, I can relate).

    OR

    2) Boehner and his staff have no intention of changing it. They like having scary stuff in the site, and whether it’s true or not is completely irrelevant. Karl Rove School, you know.


  10. Menehune Says:

    One of these days, Boehner will finally go off, after which he will soften his hard-line stance.


  11. Kane Says:

    Propaganda has no expiration date.


  12. Helen Rainier Says:

    Oh who cares if his website and he are wrong? They’ve been wrong about everything since 2000 so why change now?

    Pathetic slimebuckets.


  13. SP Biloxi Says:

    Now Boner boy is the new Tubby McTreason Rove. I agree. Boner is not going to change the site. Bush lost his brain to work his magic and now he is stuck with crocodile teary eyed Boner to spin the koolaid crapola.


  14. Guido OBGYN Lover Says:

    If he does not update I hope he will be indicted for propagandizing to Americans, which is illegal.


  15. Ditch Mitch KY Says:

    Call Boehner’s office and demand that he retract his war-mongering statements regarding Iran. The number is 1-800-828-0498.

    Surely, the actions of Bush and Cheney to whip up War against Iran, after this NIE report was available is an IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE.


  16. Xisithrus Says:

    Fear is the tool of men without the ability to govern.


  17. upside99 Says:

    All this really shows is what you see here is the BEST of the repug leadership in Congress. If I were a repug I would be afaid………very afraid.


  18. nwmuse Says:

    Its very interesting how various news reports are playing this. At first I thought there was more than one story being reported on.. Its the same story, but they (different news sources) are trying to use the information in different ways to press whatever position they hold - even when they are completely different, at either end of the spectrum! Weird..


  19. Leftside Annie Says:

    I ain’t holding my breath. “Reality” and “truth” are foreign concepts to these guys.

    Hell, Darth Cheney *still* insists that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11….why should The Boner be different?


  20. Leftside Annie Says:

    8 - Sorry, Strat - NO BET. :o/


  21. Roger_Roger Says:

    I must have missed it. Did Iran fully stop producing Nuke material today?


  22. Leftside Annie Says:

    Oh look! Roger pulled his string again!!

    Good boy, Roger!!


  23. Marie Says:

    Shh, don’t tell him, you may make him cry.


  24. toasterhead Says:

    I must have missed it. Did Iran fully stop producing Nuke material today?

    Comment by Roger_Roger — December 3, 2007 @ 5:34 pm

    Nope, not today.

    It was back in 2003, actually.


  25. Bush Cover Ups Says:

    I must have missed it. Did Iran fully stop producing Nuke material today?

    Comment by Roger_Roger — December 3, 2007 @ 5:34 pm

    They stopped thinking about how to build a bomb in 2004

    At the moment they are spinning away quite legaly with 3000 cetrifuses that enriches Uranium to 4% to be used as power BUt if they keep doing the same process on the same machines they could have a bomb by 6 am tommoro morning , by saturday it could be under your bed


  26. GSD Says:

    Mommy, will the Islamo-fascists steal my Halloween candy?

    -Boo Hoo Boehner, Jr.


  27. impeachcheneythenbush Says:

    NWMuse - yes..interesting, isn’t it? Even the headlines currently on the NY Times, Washington Post (simiilar) and New York Post (Iran still able to make nuclear weapons)..completely different.


  28. Badger Says:

    Rep. Boehner is irrelevant. The press should ask the Republican candidates for president for their reaction to the NIE report.


  29. Bush Cover Ups Says:

    Meanwhile, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president, said that the issue of Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme was “closed” and that his country was prepared for any eventuality.

    Me too Shutup Neocons


  30. Chris L Says:

    India has WMD, is a Socialist country, and refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. RogerX2, when should we invade?


  31. Bush Cover Ups Says:

    Heres the real reason

    The New IAEA regulations should keep newcomers away from producing their own enriched uranium. The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and Japan will become the world’s nuclear filling stations. Under the auspices of the IAEA these suppliers will dictate the rules, the prices and the currencies they want to get paid in. Iran has become the pretext and test case for their plans. The problems of tomorrow’s world economy are being shaped today.

    we now have an anti-Iranian alliance of the US and E3. They smell the opportunity for a coup to seize world’s nuclear fuel market. To succeed, they would just need some legal sauce on the prohibition of uranium enrichment by non-nuclear-weapon states, with Iran as example. And a UN Security Council resolution would be enough, if it legalizes IAEA’s stand that it can forbid countries to enrich uranium.

    Of course, they would make it impossible for Iran to stay within the Non-Proliferation Treaty then. To succeed their coup, they will have to take care, that Iran does not leave the organization before a resolution is successfully voted. For if so, there would not be any ground for a resolution anymore.


  32. RUCerious Says:

    God that’s funny, isn’t there an Iranian web site that says that
    America is “governed by a fanatic and actively rattling nuclear weapons”:


  33. Bush Cover Ups Says:

    lets drop the UN sanctions then and restore the republican Guards to normal soldier status and pay 10 billion as compensation to the poor of Iran who get affected by the Santions AND OF COURSE A BIG SORRY


  34. RUCerious Says:

    Santions?

    Isn’t that an Iranian rock group? Moron!


  35. Bush Cover Ups Says:

    so glad im not got to see images of children being vapourised with nuclear weapons their skin falling off and millions dying of radiation sickness from dropping nuclear weapons on innocent people and I can say AGAIN


  36. had enough Says:

    OT
    very worried about California proposal in play could sway 2008 presidential election

    brought to you by Swift Boaters
    It appears CA may get enough signatures… does anyone know if they need a simple majority to win this election held this summer?
    This needs attention…if the Swift Boaters get this passed, the ‘08 presidency may go to the Republicans.


  37. Leftside Annie Says:

    32 - RU - that one made me laugh out loud. Good ‘un!!


  38. Leftside Annie Says:

    36 - I’m in Los Angeles; this is the second time they’ve tried to sneak this crap through. I don’t think it’s gonna fly this time either. Even if they manage to cheat it onto the ballot, I think it’ll die a well-deserved death.

    Fingers crossed.


  39. had enough Says:

    Leftside Annie
    Thom Hartman has been talking of this issue… he is very concerned.
    These neocons will do anything to win.
    If they get enough signatures, and the election can be won by simple majority, then I can just imagine how fast they can get their base to vote in an election no one cares about and will not bother to vote.


  40. Lefty Patriot Says:

    I must have missed it. Did Iran fully stop producing Nuke material today?

    Comment by Roger_Roger — December 3, 2007 @ 5:34 pm

    Why should they? We haven’t.


  41. Badger Says:

    The NIE report will give China and Russia all the reasons they need to block further US sanctions against Iran. The NIE says that Iran has stopped their nuclear weapons program…..if we punish them for that…..what’s the incentive to cooperate at all.???


  42. MapleStreet Says:

    As much fun as it is to rag Boehner, isn’t there some way this can be used constructively ?

    For example, a commercial detailing the NIE conclusions (and the timeline of their release, including any pre-pub releases to congress)

    -and-

    juxtapose that with the wording on his web page ?

    Perhaps a split screen showing the clock running with the NIE released and the web page just sitting there.


  43. republicans hate facts Says:

    I must have missed it. Did Iran fully stop producing Nuke material today?
    Comment by Roger_Roger — December 3, 2007 @ 5:34 pm

    All Nuke material is bomb ready? ROTFL!!! And you wingnuts wonder why you don’t know what a WMD is?

    ROTFL you poor little ‘tards! You need a democrat running the government for you, children like you shouldn’t even be voting!


  44. toasterhead Says:

    God that’s funny, isn’t there an Iranian web site that says that
    America is “governed by a fanatic and actively rattling nuclear weapons”:

    Comment by RUCerious — December 3, 2007 @ 6:13 pm

    Now that’s a complete and irresponsible fabrication - where did you read those LIES?

    You can’t rattle a nuclear weapon - they weigh several hundred tons each and are built with 60s and 70s-era solid state technology. Even if you could manage to shake it in a manner that could be described as “rattling” you’d most likely shake a wire loose or disconnect a diode or something and that’d make for a REALLY expensive metaphor, wouldn’t it!!


  45. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    The name is BO-ner… John BO-ner.


  46. RUCerious Says:

    Geez toasty, you know how to damper down, don’tcha?

    I had this great vista of the chymp hoisted up onto the top of a Titan missile, rocking back and forth trying to rattle the damn thing.
    Patooie!~


  47. toasterhead Says:

    I had this great vista of the chymp hoisted up onto the top of a Titan missile, rocking back and forth trying to rattle the damn thing.
    Patooie!~

    Comment by RUCerious — December 4, 2007 @ 12:24 am

    I picture Yosemite Sam dancing around on the nose cone trying to get the ICBM to launch after the fuse has already burnt its way up into the first-stage solid rocket motor but failed to ignite it.


  48. natisman Says:

    Tears from the used car salesman of the house will will clear all this up if necessary. I mean now he has somthing to cry about again!

    So do you think he really sells lots of undercoating with a coat of it applied to his body?


  49. republicanSScareme Says:

    Boehner can’t change his shorts without an okay from Dubya.



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