Comments on: Mullen: I Want ‘A Healthy Dialogue With Iran’ Because ‘Engagement Would Offer An Opportunity’

By: wmhogg

wmhogg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:09:45 +0000

Hasn’t any of our military read Sun Tzu’s, The Art of War?

Here’s an exact quote:

“The most noble action that military leaders can perform is to not put their freakin’ troops in freakin’ harm’s way when talking to your freakin’ enemy will avoid war”.

There it is – an exact rendition of the ancient text. Oops, did I say “rendition”? I meant “rendering”…

By: Cal Malenky

Cal Malenky — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:34:20 +0000

When the UN didn’t move fast enough for him to prove that Saddam had WMDs, he threatened the UN with irrelevancy.
Adm. Mullen, you’re about to be made irrelevant. Anybody who gets in the way of Bush and Cheney becomes irrelevant to them.

By: Cal Malenky

Cal Malenky — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:31:47 +0000

They all still serve at the pleasure of the President and this president gets pleasure from war, not diplomacy, despite his statements to the contrary.
Bush’s form of diplomacy is My way or the Highway.

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:17:07 +0000

But now, Bush’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, appears to be siding with those who favor direct engagement with Iran.

I hope that means that Mullen will oppose a strike on Iran and refuse to follow orders. Because you can hardly have talks with someone you have just bombed the $hit out of.

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:32:52 +0000

Of course engagement works!!! The problem is the arrogant government of the USA does not know how to respect democracy and other soverign countries. Instead, they come with false claims and lies, occupations and assassination plots, and military dictatorships, etc… Just look what they did in Nicaragua, Brazil, Chile, Argentina… The list goes on forever. If democratic elected governments decide to spend on their social needs, The US comes along and makes everything possible to destroy their democracies and freedoms. It has been like that since WWII. In Brazil, they made the military dictators destroy a Rail system in order to FORD to come in. On that time, Disney created movie “Alo Amigos” in order to ’soften up’ their grip on latin america’s markets. Never mind the marines on our coast making sure the military coup would succeed. Never mind the ‘School of the Americas USA’ which teatches torture techniques. It was decades of TORTURE, and the implementation of an unpayable international debt that destroyed our society. Now the latin american (we are americans too!) governments are democraticaly turning to the left and this imoral administration is calling them with the usual ’slogans’: “Tyrant, Terrorist, radical”. Never mind none of them are occupying countries, destroying other peoples lives and coming up with TORTURE PROGRAMMES and stealing resources based sole on Lies and false flag operations. Who is the Tyrant? Who is the manace to the World peace? Who is the terrorist Mr. Bush? Who is the 21th Century WAR CRIMINAL? Israel has 250 nuclear heads, Iran has the rigth to defend itself, and the way to avoid the worse, is to engage in diplomacy and dialog. A two ways dialog. But the Brainles scum occupying the White House does not know how to mantain a dialog, little less a two ways one… he is a spoilled little bratt adicted to cocaine and alchohool who claims he is a new born Christian. I hope he is! Because if it is so, he will suffer in hell for the death of more than a million iraqui civilians, for the TORTURE PROGRAMME. He has destroyed other countries, but I don’t think he has the intelectual capacity to understand what he has done to his own country nor the understanding of the concept of CRIME. The spoilled bratt has never been punished. And he has the audacity to say History will venticate him… Hah! What does this idiot in chief understand of History?

HAGUE 2009

By: alphainfinityomega

alphainfinityomega — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:34:19 +0000

Now, Admiral Mullen, you know the NaZionists and AIPAC won’t let us do that.

_AIO_

By: Game of Life

Game of Life — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:17:47 +0000

Kahoneez Says:

What he’s saying is meaningless people, because it’s their pattern just before attacking and they did it with Iraq .
The plan for attacking Iran is in the pipeline and always they PRETEND negotiating or ” talking ” is important , but ultimately they want to end up saying , after rediculous demands , see we tried and they refused to cooperate .
They demanded Iraq hand over all of their nuclear and bio scientist , something no country would do in their right mind, knowing they’d be locked up for interrogation . But they WANTED the refusal , they wanted an excuse to attack . It’s all manufactured people , for failure then ATTACK .

Oh Lawd you could be right. I forgot how they underhandedly refused good intel and made up their own to justify occupation of Iran. I remember Hussein saying we can agree with everything chimpy wants and chimpy will still attack us.

This will be chimpy’s final hell on earth.

By: Game of Life

Game of Life — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:10:15 +0000

chimpy’s shoot-em-up-wild west-cowboy bs doesn’t make it in the world. That mentality played out when the real cowboys from long ago dried up and blew away. chimpy’s greed lead to the occupation of Iraq. Now he wants Iran’s oil.

Iran has a right to defend itself and protect their resources. We should talk to anyone who wants to talk to the US.

Impeach chimpy and save the world.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:07:34 +0000

Hey! Is that a Nazi Appeaser uniform he’s wearing? With the surrender medal on his chest?

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:03:33 +0000

So, Admiral Terrerist speaks, eh?

By: republicans are the Fear and Smear Party

republicans are the Fear and Smear Party — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:28:47 +0000

Why does Adm. Michael Mullen hate our troops?

#11…I believe you are 100% correct.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:24:02 +0000

Wow. Thanks, katy.

Isn’t amazing how much they are like us? :)

By: katy

katy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:47:35 +0000

Life in Iran :: Photo Essay

by Arash Shiva

http://yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2613

By: Badger

Badger — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:24:06 +0000

President Bush and the Republicans accused Jimmy Carter of Appeasement for talking to Hamas….and yet…

Hamas and Israel recently agreed on a truce and ceasefire. No rockets fired in exchange for no more airstrikes in Gaza. If this truce holds, a prisoner exchange is in the works.

This was all accomplished thru a back door channel with Egypt.

By: Kahoneez

Kahoneez — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:19:18 +0000

What he’s saying is meaningless people, because it’s their pattern just before attacking and they did it with Iraq .
The plan for attacking Iran is in the pipeline and always they PRETEND negotiating or ” talking ” is important , but ultimately they want to end up saying , after rediculous demands , see we tried and they refused to cooperate .
They demanded Iraq hand over all of their nuclear and bio scientist , something no country would do in their right mind, knowing they’d be locked up for interrogation . But they WANTED the refusal , they wanted an excuse to attack . It’s all manufactured people , for failure then ATTACK .

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:10:40 +0000

Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld were all genetic defectives who lacked a diplomacy gene! What a tragic confluence!

By: had enough

had enough — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:09:03 +0000

Will Mullen be looking for another job soon? As we have seen in the past, those that sway a bit from the illegal path of invasion/massacre/occupation are quietly let go.

By: Badger

Badger — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:53:54 +0000

The Joint Chiefs also have opposed the option of attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, so I’m not surprised Mullen is speaking favorably of directly engaging with Iran.

I am surprised that he is talking to the press about it.

Either this is an elaborate game of “good cop- bad cop” or Bush is seriously out of touch with reality…and the military knows it.

By: pete

pete — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:42:34 +0000

I wonder when the “cerebral hemorrhages” will begin? On the other hand, given Chimpy’s command of English, maybe it will be “strokes”.

By: dumbstruck

dumbstruck — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:31:25 +0000

Mullen will be checking into rehab soon.