After meeting with Bush, Olmert hints U.S. action against Iran is near.
After meeting with Bush, Olmert hints U.S. action against Iran is near.
The Israeli press reported last week that during a recent meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was to urge President Bush to prepare an attack on Iran. The White House has not commented extensively on the meeting, but Israeli press are reporting today that Olmert has “hinted” that “U.S. action against Iran is imminent“:
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert hinted after his meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush Wednesday that U.S. action against Iran is imminent. While he avoided saying anything clear and specific on the matter, Olmert did mention a “timetable” and said action would take place before Bush leaves the White House.
“We reached agreement on the need to take care of the Iranian threat,” Olmert said after the meeting. “I left with a lot less question marks [than I had entered with] regarding the means, the timetable restrictions and America’s resoluteness to deal with the problem.”
“George Bush understands the severity of the Iranian threat and the need to vanquish it, and intends to act on the matter before the end of his term in the White House,” Olmert reportedly said after his 90 minute long one-on-one meeting with the American Commander in Chief.
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“George Bush understands the severity of the Iranian threat and the need to vanquish it, and intends to act on the matter before the end of his term in the White House,”
This would be a great time for Georgie to take one of his infamous vacations to the ranch - for about 7 months, one week and four days…
June 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pmPerhaps Bush would like to share his plans with Americans?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pmDick Cheney is getting ready to bathe in the blood of the innocent yet again …
June 9th, 2008 at 1:12 pmOlmert continued, “His ratings are in the toilet, my ratings are in the toilet, we both need this. And so it will happen soon. Bank on it, my friends.”
June 9th, 2008 at 1:12 pmWhat can anyone even do? I mean, they’ve basically created a situation where he doesn’t feel to need to get anyone’s permission for anything.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pmWhy do we have to be The World Police?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pmI received an email from my representative, who made it abundantly clear that the only thing that WILL trigger an IMMEDIATE impeachment of BOTH chympy and darth is a unilateral, non-congressionally approved, military action of ANY sort against Iran.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:16 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says: Perhaps Bush would like to share his plans with Americans?
That’d be different…
June 9th, 2008 at 1:16 pmmargerine Says:
What can anyone even do?
Call you Senators! Call your House Rep! Write a letter to the editor to all local papers!
We can NOT sit on our hands and hope that this delusional idiot doesn’t start another war. He has nothing to lose, and the rest of the world has everything to lose.
Take action… on person is one call, but tens of thousands of people is a ground swell.
PEACE
June 9th, 2008 at 1:18 pmRUCerious Says: I received an email from my representative, who made it abundantly clear that the only thing that WILL trigger an IMMEDIATE impeachment of BOTH chympy and darth is a unilateral, non-congressionally approved, military action of ANY sort against Iran.
Yeah, but by the time they started any action in that vein, it would be too late. He’d have attacked. We really need to put him out to pasture early.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:19 pmAfter a full summer of fear mongering show trials at Guantanimo Bush will heed his masters call and bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran.
We’ll be regaled with great tales of Iranian evil doing, shown cockpit videos of precision bombings, told that the US military is the greatest in the world…….
Hoorah! War!
-GSD
June 9th, 2008 at 1:19 pmSomeone needs to tell Bush:
Iraq will not allow its territory to be used to attack Iran, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has said during a visit to Tehran.
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June 9th, 2008 at 1:19 pm“George Bush understands the severity of the Iranian threat and the need to vanquish it, and intends to act on the matter before the end of his term in the White House,” Olmert reportedly said after his 90 minute long one-on-one meeting with the American Commander in Chief.
Yeah
The loser who cannot stay atop a bicycle for more than half-a-minute or speak without butchering the English language/saying the most moronic thing(s) , is now the Solomon of our times , Olmert ; why not vanquish that “threat” yourselves if it’s so great and you’re such a “friend” to the US ?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pmThen again, maybe we do need the rest of the world to liberate us from Hitler Jr.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pmAs if we need another war without end!
Where are the soldiers supposed to come from? How many more years are we going to insist that our current soldiers serve? Where is the money supposed to come from?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:22 pmHow much blood is enough?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:23 pmsomeone needs to get a grip on the shrub real quick like. This man is out of control.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
Perhaps Bush would like to share his plans with Americans?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Now why on Earth would he need to do that? He’s not running for reelection, is he?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:25 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
Perhaps Bush would like to share his plans with Americans?
Bush has PLANS?
PEACE
June 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pmun @#10 ~ Agreed, but it seems like the used puppy blood goblets in the Rose Garden just aren’t enough…
June 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says: Perhaps Bush would like to share his plans with Americans?
Like when he shared the Iraq plan with that Suadi representative (ambassador?) and like he DIDN’T share with his own Secretary of State Powell.
That kind of sharing…
June 9th, 2008 at 1:28 pmSpencer’s mom, I’ve been in weekly contact with Mr. Inslee on this and other issues. You’re right, unless they KNOW how strongly we feel, they’ll just sit and wait for it to happen…
June 9th, 2008 at 1:28 pmIsn’t Olmert on trial for some preverted sex?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:29 pmrogers Says:
And who would enlist, and be willing to actually fight a strong, uniformed enemy like the iranian millitary…
June 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
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I can think of a number of conservatrolls like yourself who should be first in line at the recruiting station. Come on, roger - don’t you want that signing bonus?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:30 pmAre these people mad?
ANY attack by the US would trigger WW 3! This is LUNACY! Instead of these bozos sitting in their think tanks dreaming up ways to kill people why not ask the simple question - “Is this good for our country ??”
In the context of our standing worldwide, this is the dumbest thing ever imaginable!!
You think $4.00 gas is expensive? Try $ 20/gal.!! Or even higher since the whole middle-east would do everything in its power to bring the U.S. to its knees - and would succeed !!
June 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pmrogers Says:
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Probably just bombs.
And who would enlist, and be willing to actually fight a strong, uniformed enemy like the iranian millitary…
June 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
You of course , being such a solid military historian with your extensive military background and training to supplement that assessment , to go along with your imbecilic preditction with this garbage administration that Iraq would be a “cakewalk” and would not last more than 6 months and pay for itself………….
June 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pmWhat a pair of effed-up losers, Olmert and Boosh. They both ought to be in prison.
Jack - Olmert is under investigation for corruption and accepting bribes.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:32 pmDid R-2 just call our brave volunteer army cowards?
I think he did.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:33 pm#7 RUC,
My only argument with this logic spewed by our elected Officials, is that this flies in the face of the lawlessness and criminal nature ALREADY on display. They have enough to hold the BushCo responsible for violating long standing principles and treaties. They have misused and mislead the Nation into a military blunder, making us less safe, NOT MORE!
1) IF the Administration does attack Iran, it happens on our elected Officials watch. It isn’t like Iraq where these elected Officials had their heads up their asses. I mean, Bush hadn’t demonstrated a propensity to commit war crimes by then.
2) That our elected Officials prefer to NOT reign in an out-of-control administration is sure sign enough that collectively, they are morally unfit for duty. Many of them individually demonstrate this on a daily basis. It is the People’s responsibility to see that these elected Officials are replaced ASAP as Congress borders on a dereliction of duty to the Nation.
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June 9th, 2008 at 1:36 pmAny action taken, impeach.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:37 pmTeleMan Says:
Why do we have to be The World Police?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
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Ha! We’re nothing of the sort. If anything, we’re The World Loose Cannon - the stereotyped “bad cop” who provokes a shooting spree at a day care center, causes two dozen accidents in a high-speed chase in a residential neighborhood, tortures eyewitnesses into providing false testimony, blows up half of the harbor trying to bust a smuggling ring, and then chews out the Chief of Police before finally turning in his badge and hitting the streets as a rogue vigilante detective.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:38 pmTwo corrupt leaders planning more war. Crazy bastards.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:38 pmIsraeli PMs always call a cabinet meeting, on returning from visits to the US, and tell the meeting that they have received “the green light from the white house” for a wide range of offensives. It’s traditional. To NOT do so would raise alarm.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:39 pm“George Bush understands the severity of the Iranian threat and the need to vanquish it..”
You mean just like he understood the severity of the Iraqi threat and the need to vanquish it? Fool me once shame on…..Won’t get fooled again.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:40 pmA madman threatens to start WWIII and we sit back and watch. He won’t do it, he would be impeached, he would be hated.
WTF? That POS has nothing to lose. He has no honor, no respect, no ratings. There is nothing that petulant punk wants from his countrymen. He would do it just to stick a finger in our face. You hate me? Well, by God here! Take that.
If you think Iraq was bad, this would be Iraq on steroids.
Serious question…. How much does the Rapture play into the Chimp’s delusions? Is this Bush’s way of rolling out the red carpet for Jesus?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:40 pm“the Iranian threat and the need to vanquish it”
Two problems with this statement: We don’t know that the threat is real or “severe” and we don’t have any way to “vanquish” it if it is.
We can make the “Iranian threat” real and more severe by attacking Iran, but that would just make it harder to vanquish.
Or we could reduce attempt to reduce the threat through diplomacy, but that would force us to admit that foreign policy is complicated and no threats can be completely vanquished.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:40 pmMax-1 ~ complete agreement here. They have so much effing ammo, but aren’t willing to lock, load and go for the jugular.
Something about getting stuff ‘done’ in congress, and Bush’s approval rating surging as he’s impeached…
Complete and utter BS…
June 9th, 2008 at 1:41 pmWinski Says:
Are these people mad?
You think $4.00 gas is expensive? Try $ 20/gal.!!
June 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
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Our country is run by a bunch of oilmen. I don’t think “mad” is exactly the word for it. Pushing the price of gas to $20/gallon isn’t insanity if you’re the one receiving the $20/gallon.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:42 pm#37 jaramilr,
June 9th, 2008 at 1:42 pmBut what if this threat is imagined… is it then “severe”?
RUC,
Are you saddled with OUTslee…?
My sympathies. :(
I’ve got McDermott. :)
June 9th, 2008 at 1:44 pmRowan Berkeley Says:
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Israeli PMs always call a cabinet meeting, on returning from visits to the US, and tell the meeting that they have received “the green light from the white house” for a wide range of offensives. It’s traditional. To NOT do so would raise alarm.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
What part of “tradition” is it to encourage those who are the planners and schemers behind the worst foreign policy blunder in US history to commit another similar type of act ?
Who gives a shit about Israel and its people and what they want to hear………..
June 9th, 2008 at 1:44 pmI am SO sick of fu(king Israel.
And, no, conservatards, I’m not being anti-semitic.
I’m sick of a country not a race of people or any one religion (I’m pretty much sick of ALL religions equally).
Olmert, DO IT YOUR FU(KING SELF YOU A$$. Use that annual $3bn we give you. Use all the American made weapons you have. Use the freaking nukes you’ve got that you used in Lebanon, show the world, yet again, why Israel has lost all rights to expect people to respect them as a country, JUST LIKE WE HAVE.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pmThere is no imminent threat by Iran against the United States to justify striking at Iran’s nuclear program. They are years away from fielding any weapons. They do not even have the basic manufacturing facilities in place (gas centrifuges only provide one component.) How then will the strike be justified? It is an act of war that has not been authorized by Congress. It is the definition of a war of aggression in violation of the UN charter. It would tie the next president’s hands on policy for no other reason than this president’s desire to fix US policy. It indeed would be impeachable.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pmMax-1 Says:
#37 jaramilr,
But what if this threat is imagined… is it then “severe”?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
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Of course!
You can’t rally the population around the actual threat from Iran, which is that they start their own oil market in Euros and further weaken the dollar while providing discounted oil to China and India and other developing economies that undermines our dominance of their markets.
The neocons have to make up a severe threat, which is that Iran is developing giant nuclear powered mechatron robots that will stomp through Tel Aviv and New York killing all the Jews and converting everyone else to Islam.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:48 pmOf the two, which country’s leadership has at one time or another called for the Middle East to be a “Nuke Free Zone” (i.e. NO ONE has them because they are pointless due to MAD), Israel or Iran? I’ll give you a hint, the correct answer has the shorter name…
June 9th, 2008 at 1:49 pmRUCerious Says:
I received an email from my representative, who made it abundantly clear that the only thing that WILL trigger an IMMEDIATE impeachment of BOTH chympy and darth is a unilateral, non-congressionally approved, military action of ANY sort against Iran.
Well since violating the Constitution, torturing people and WAR CRIMES, do not seem to make him qualify for Impeachment, maybe someone needs to make sure Bush gets caught with a live boy, dead girl, or gets a hummer, just to be sure.
WTF are these representatives thinking?
June 9th, 2008 at 1:51 pmMCMetal Says:
Who gives a shit about Israel and its people and what they want to hear………..
June 9th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
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Certainly not the Israeli leadership, who are ignoring the majority of Israelis who want their country to engage with Hamas and Hezbollah.
Certainly not the Israili homeland security industry, who has made billions of sheckels thanks to the government keeping Israel in a permanent state of war.
Certainly not AIPAC, who serves neither America’s nor Israel’s best interests yet claims to speak for both.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:51 pm.
O.K.
I’m gonna fly in the face of logic and ask one question:
What has Israel done to deserve the protection afforded to it…
… Masses nuclear arms in contravention of UN and IAEA rules and guidelines…
… Consistently violating it’s border agreement with Palestine…
… Bombs power plants and water treatment facilities and other civilian structures in the Gaza Strip…
… Most recently reported, making threats against another nation concerning a military attack.
I mean, Israel acts like a rogue nation… and the USA supports that?
… REALLY?
(p.s. to the trolls. I’m addressing the State of Israel and it’s government, NOT the people of Israel…)
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June 9th, 2008 at 1:52 pmYeah, Max~1 the very same Inslee who blocked our State Senate from it’s impeachment action… He can be a nice guy, but also a complete jerk.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:52 pmAt least he doesn’t owe Boner any money {:>}
Max~1, don’t forget the Liberty~!
June 9th, 2008 at 1:53 pmWayne, I do believe it’s a sad case of not wanting to upset any applecarts that may be running around gathering up cash…
I wish Wexler would move to Mill Creek!
June 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pmI have a co-worker who is Syrian and he says his friends and family in Syria seem to think that Bush will definitely attack either Syria or Iran before he leaves office. This to me is protecting Israel as Iran is not a direct threat to the US. What the hell has Israel done for us lately other then try to get us in another war? If we attack Iran it will surely be an air strike only as another massive ground war could not be supported at this time. And you think gas is expensive now, wait until Bush attacks Iran. That could be his greatest payoff to the oil companies.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:00 pmhussein toasterhead sez:
Ha! We’re nothing of the sort. If anything, we’re The World Loose Cannon - the stereotyped “bad cop”
You are so right. Just like the movie Team America: World Police — in getting the bad guys they completely devastate and destroy what they set out to save.
And still, the Bushco folks still have the grandiose idea that the USA is the final authority.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:05 pmI think Israel is the only country in the world where George Bush has a positive approval rating.
My question is; when are our politicians going stop catering so slavishly to the Israeli lobbying and start to put American interests before Israeli interests?
I mean this Iraq debacle has set America back 10-15 years.
We are buried in a mountain of debt which contributes to the dollar tanking which contributes to the rise in oil prices which contributes to the decline of the American middle class.
We have taking our eyes off the ball on some very serious issues such as China, energy policies, economics, etc.
How could we have not learned any lessons from Iraq?
Attacking Iran will likely cause oil prices to hit $200 a barrel or more which is like stabbing middle-class America right in the heart economically.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:09 pmyou know - to m e the worst part of this is that I believe they will do ANYTHING - ANYTHING to try and stay in power - even starting another ridiculous war. That is so disgusting to me that I want to puke. Congress moves so slow that doing something AFTER an attack is not an option - this needs to be stopped now.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:11 pmEveryone seems to be forgetting the fact that this bunch of madmen are trying to usher in Amrageddon. They actually believe that sh1t.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:11 pmBlue jeans and Rock n Roll would go a lot further in de-radicalizing Iran than bombs would.
Remember when Brand America was respected around the world and people wanted to BE us?
You know, BEFORE the Cheney Administration.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:11 pmRe: Immediate Impeachment only AFTER the bombs start falling…
Go ahead, Congress. Dangle that carrot in front of us. We’re not biting. If you wait to impeach these a$$holes until after they start bombing, then the blood of every innocent Iranian that dies in that campaign is on your hands just like Bush’s. We will NOT let you forget it. If you do make good and impeach, we will STILL vote you OUT.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:14 pmWinski Says:
Are these people mad?
You think $4.00 gas is expensive? Try $ 20/gal.!! Or even higher since the whole middle-east would do everything in its power to bring the U.S. to its knees - and would succeed !!
Maybe that’s the point… since the oil companies aren’t getting the Iraq “oil revenue sharing” law passed, this will be used as an excuse to help “reduce” consumer oil prices by drilling in Alaska and off-shore. Not only does BigOil then get “our” oil, which they can then sell back to us, but I bet they also get HUGE government financial incentives for “oil exploration”.
Gee, I never used to think of our government in this light… was I naive, or has it really come to this?
PEACE
June 9th, 2008 at 2:21 pmImpeach Bush & Cheney now!
June 9th, 2008 at 2:21 pmAs an American, I have trouble with the concept of a country where your acceptance as a citizen, opportunities and place in society is determined by your religion.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:21 pmThe only way that ever works is through repression and/or religous/ethnic cleansing.
That is kind of in opposition to the supposed ideal of American values, yet America’s greatest friends in the middle east are Israel and Saudi Arabia, who both appear to be playing the U.S. for a sucker.
I know we tolerate this for geopolitical reasons (OIL/$$$), but in my opinion a world view grounded in hypocrisy usually turns out badly in the end.
Everytime these folks make threats in the media the price of oil goes up.
Would you stop it!?
June 9th, 2008 at 2:22 pmOk, I’m damn sick and tired of this. If Olmert is so hot to trot to attack Iran, let him do it. Why in hell should we attack Iran just because Israel wants us to do it? Since when did Israel become the boss of the US government? I certainly hope that once Obama takes office he takes a hard line with Israel. It’s time we cut them loose and let them stand on their own feet.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:26 pmXisithrus Says:
Everytime these folks make threats in the media the price of oil goes up.
Would you stop it!?
But don’t you see, that is the goal. You need to start realizing that KBH and the oil companies are the constituancies of the Bush admin. You would think the constituancy would be you and I; but you are wrong. Everytime the invasion creates profits, bush becomes more and more valuable to his bosses. Now Iran is in the crosshairs only because there is more money to be made during war, than during peace. Why the fu(k is Liz Cheney even speaking?
June 9th, 2008 at 2:27 pmflavorino Says:
I think Israel is the only country in the world where George Bush has a positive approval rating.
My question is; when are our politicians going stop catering so slavishly to the Israeli lobbying and start to put American interests before Israeli interests?
Actually the Israelis don’t like Bush any more than we do. It is the Israeli government that likes Bush. Apparently the Israeli people want their government to talk to Hamas and to find a peaceful solution to the middle east. Their government doesn’t listen to what they want any more than our government listens to what we want.
Ahmadinejad was right. They do need to wipe the Israeli government off the map. And we need to wipe our current government off the map which is what we will do in November.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:30 pmPut Bush and Cheney on the no-fly list.
Prepare the guillotine.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:32 pmRUCerious Says:
I received an email from my representative, who made it abundantly clear that the only thing that WILL trigger an IMMEDIATE impeachment of BOTH chympy and darth is a unilateral, non-congressionally approved, military action of ANY sort against Iran.
You might want to call your representative and point out that will be too late. The time to impeach them is NOW, before they start another war of aggression. What is wrong with the Democrats? They have the support of the people, why don’t they act?
June 9th, 2008 at 2:32 pmWhat makes me nervous is that no one has mentioned that a military action against Iran is likely to have a very different result than the military action against Iraq. Iran from all accounts is a country that is functioning well, and would probably be able to retaliate in a more meaningful way against the United States. Part of why Americans who supported the Iraq war did support it was because of the somewhat naive notion that the U.S. could just go in and “bomb them back to the stone age.” (A perfectly reprehensible position to take.) Iran is not Iraq. Plus with the possibility of bootleg nuclear weapons of some kind being out there and available, a military action against Iran would be extremely dangerous.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:33 pmRantingTommy Says:
Blue jeans and Rock n Roll would go a lot further in de-radicalizing Iran than bombs would.
In the ‘60& ’70’s 57,000+ Americans and @ 2,000,000 Vietnamese died in what was said to be an attempt to “defeat the communists”.
In the ’80’s & ’90’s Vietnam was lured back towards capitalism by Nike & Addidas sneakers, Michael Jackson cd’s
and Hollywood movies.
It worked better than the bombing without all the carnage.
Most of Iran is under 30 years old.
Time, cell phones and the internet will take their course.
Unleashing death and carnage on innocent people is probably not the best way to handle the situation.
Pakistan has nuclear weapons and they are harboring Al Qaeda and the Taliban in their Northwest provinces. A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani father of “the Islamic bomb” had passed on technology to other countries, not much is heard about him today, but the last news a few years back was “he was under house arrest”…….IN HIS VILLA! WHY NO DANGER THERE?
Something does not smell right about this second “march to war” and the “fixing the facts around the policy” in 6 years.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pmAgain, it is WELL-KNOWN that the Shias in Iraq, if Iran is attacked, will begin to SLAUGHTER the US soldiers and contractors.
It will be, unfortunately, DESERVED.
And their BLOOD will be on the hands of WAR CRIMINALS Bush and Cheney.
And God SEES their GENOCIDE and HEARS their LIES.
Good “luck” with ETERNITY, Bush/Cheney and supporters.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:41 pmYou’re gonna NEED it.
Lindsay ‘Cracker’ Graham said on a Sunday political show that ‘John McCain is the architect of ‘The Surge’.
Think about that.
AEI, Fred Kagan, specifically, floated the surge idea to Cheney. Bush credited Petreaus. Now McCain is getting ‘credit’.
My point is, these guys will do, say, write, copy, steal or make up any shit they please to keep us diverted from the actual truth…we’re there for the Oil Companies.
Olmert has big scandal trouble in the ‘Motherland’. Bush has even bigger trouble here in the ‘Homeland’. Both are warmongering, religious idiots who need war to divert attention from their own sorry lack of leadership.
Invade Iran and Support Your Local Dictator
June 9th, 2008 at 2:50 pmTeleMan Says:
Why do we have to be The World Police?
The short answer is $$$$$$$$$$$’s
lots of them, mountains of $$$$$$’s
oceans of $$$$$$$$$$$$
more than the average person could ever even imagine.
There for the taking by Haliburton, KBR, Blackwater, G.E., Dick Cheney, Exxon-Mobile, the Bush family, the Carlyle Group, Saudi princes and countless other companies, individuals, contractors, war profiteers, politicians, charlatans and cronies that most of us don’t even know exist and number in the thousands.
It’s been a big party called “Let’s Loot the U.S. Treasury!”
And it worked. The U.S. Treasury is empty except for being stuffed with IOU’s like that briefcase in “Dumb and Dumber”
June 9th, 2008 at 2:58 pmDid taking out their biggest enemy have anything to do with Iran’s supposed (increased) threat?
Israel has nukes and Iran does not. Why does the US have to do anything? Israel was threatened and they have every right to do something about it, but it seems like, “My brother’s gonna kick your ass”. All the encouragement a friend could need, but fight your own battles. Unless Israel is the 51st state (for real), we shouldn’t be fighting their battles. Does soverienty mean anything anymore?
June 9th, 2008 at 3:07 pmOlmert’s sucker enough to believe Dubbie wouldn’t lie to him, too??
whatever.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:22 pmNow that you caught up on last week’s news, it’s time to pay attention to today’s.
Sec. Gates will address “weak leadership” in the Air Force by visiting two bases to talk about the topic. The first houses nuclear ballistic missiles while the second has tankers that refuel nuclear armed bombers in flight.
Gates just ditched the top two Air Force leaders. This came months after Adm. Fallon, a known opponent to the use of force on Iran, resigned.
http://arisfreedomswitch.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 06/ replacing-resisters-greases-skids-for.html
Bush wants to be Truman. How many nuclear bombs will he drop before his ushers in his Middle East Marshall Plan?
June 9th, 2008 at 3:56 pmHey, go to this rightard website and leave comments. These guys are morons. You don’t need to register to comment: http://www.screwliberals.com/
June 9th, 2008 at 4:44 pmIf GW Botch attacks the sovereign nation of Iran the following are possible:
1) The UN could sanction the US and bring economic pressures to bear against the Botch administration.
2) The Shiaa in Iraq could (will in my opinion) start slaughtering our soldiers in even the “safest” places in Iraq.
3) Turkey could invade the Kurdish north and start a new genocide campaign against the Kurds and take strategic land. The US military and our treasury will be stretched too thin to defend the Kurds.
4) The dollar could become almost worthless if China dumps our currency to support one of their staunch allies, like Iran or Syria.
5) Only 1 or 2 oil tankers being sunk by terrorists, anywhere in the world, would drive insurance rates for oil tankers and other ships through the roof worldwide as the US will not be able to protect each and every precious tanker or ship with an over stretched military. This would drive oil prices to $200-300$ a barrel. While Americans would be pissed to the gills, the Europeans and others will be more pissed.
6) Americans will be less safe in the world in general.
7) Others will seek to arrive on our shores and destroy us more than ever before. They will be more clandestine. They will find sympathy in people that we once thought would be our friends.
8) Non-terrorist governments (i.e. England, Spain, etc.) will face massive increases in security threats from within and without. The cost will be astronomical and unacceptable to those countries. And all nations supporting any slightly mistaken form of democracy or US support will come under attack worldwide.
9) Any efforts by the US to bring diplomacy and common ground to the peace table will be met with massive skepticism for years to come.
10) It may be necessary to outlaw the RePugniScum Party and convict most of its leaders down to the state level to convince the world that the US is a democracy and can correct itself from within.
June 9th, 2008 at 7:05 pmOlmert is a steaming piece of UknowWhat. If UnPresident Bush listens to him, America deserves what it gets. More war, no prosperity, and more Israel Dictatorship. So I say, go for it america! You’ve alread lost most of your freedom. Why not go for Capitalist Dictatorship in all of It’s glory.
June 14th, 2008 at 12:30 pm