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Does Iran need an ass kicking?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:32 pm
by JamLifeIntoDeath_Archive
From the AFP, 5 hours ago:
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran warned on Wednesday that it could bomb Israel if it was attacked by the Jewish state, as the international war of words over the Islamic republic's nuclear drive escalated further...
...Israel said it was taking "very seriously" the threat. "Unfortunately we hear all too often belicose, extreme and hateful statements out of the Iranian leadership," Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev told AFP.
The White House denounced it as "almost provocative".
Does Iran need an ass kicking?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:50 pm
by cjh_Archive
Has no one picked up on this? Flooding into my conscience mind unbidden since hearing it at 4am on the world service last night and rumoured to be a possible dry run of a tactical strike on Iran.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/arti ... article.do
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:48 pm
by barndog_Archive
There was an interesting exchange between 60 minutes' Scott Pelley and Ahmadinejad. The full interview can be viewed
here
Is it your goal to build a nuclear bomb?" Pelley asked.
"It is a firm 'No.' I’m going to be much firmer now, in political relations right now, the nuclear bomb is of no use; if it was useful it would have prevented the downfall of the Soviet Union; if it was useful it would resolved the problem the Americans have in Iraq," Ahmadinejad said. "The time of the bomb is passed."
Mr. Reuben - do you believe him?
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:33 pm
by barndog_Archive
Rick Reuben wrote:I find it preposterous that the only country on Earth to ever use atomic weapons offensively presumes to lecture Iran on their right to nuclear weapons.
Given what this administration has done in the last 6 years, I tend to agree with you. I don't know that I trust trust a man who answers "to a higher power" with nuclear weapons more than I should trust Ahmadinejad.
Does Iran need an ass kicking?
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:51 pm
by barndog_Archive
Rick Reuben wrote:I don't even place much emphasis on the 'who's the bigger religious madman?' factor.
I think most people do - and I think that is the fear that the administration would hope to use to sell any actions in Iran.
Does Iran need an ass kicking?
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:41 am
by Flaneur_Archive
Related to this, a good short
interview with Seymour Hersh.
Does Iran need an ass kicking?
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:20 am
by madlee_Archive
A guy at work, who maybe a week earlier went on a rant about Bush being an idiot, yesterday totally went off about ahmadinejad being crazy etc.
maybe he's on to something.
also anyone notice the poll results look like someone giving the finger?
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:29 am
by simmo_Archive
Rick Reuben wrote:Fox News' weekend business news show ( which featured Ann Coulter, for some reason- guess she does stock picks now, too )- the question on the table: "Should we bomb Iran?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaBukcIRTsCoulter is pro-bombing, says it will benefit Wall Street.
Wow, that's the first time I've heard Ann Coulter speak or seen her move.... I've seen photos of her on the internet but never moving images. I'm... scarred. She's fucking repulsive! Absolutely vile and extraordinarily ugly woman.
Yuck, must go wash eyes.
Does Iran need an ass kicking?
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:12 pm
by rayj_Archive
Quoted from 'News Hounds':
A Tiny Revolution noted, unlike FOX and the rest of the so-called liberal media, that an amendment containing the following wording was attached to the Senate FY2008 Defense Authorization bill:
(3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies;
(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies.
Add this to the near-hysteria over Iranian President Ahmadinejad's appearance in NYC today and the current front page of FOXNews.com and it is not outside the realm of possibility that the Bush administration intends to go ahead with yet another military misadventure.
Apparently, we have already authorized the ass-kicking.
Does Iran need an ass kicking?
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:57 pm
by rayj_Archive
Our Glorious Democracy At Work, ensuring that the voice of it's citizenry is heard.