Letters to the Editor
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You dropped a bomb on me, baby.
Of course he wants to bomb Iran. I considered his "gaffe" to be equal parts old age and Freudian slip. AIPAC and the neocons are out to get "Greater Israel" back on track with B.B.Netenyahoo getting his old job back. With McCain, they've got a willing dupe to do it. But don't count out either Obama or Hillary. The dems have knelt before AIPAC on Iran, so the odds are better than 50/50 the deal gets done within the first 6 months of ANY administration. Pity, but a nation of Sheeple gets the government they deserve.
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Will he bomb Iran?
Of course he will. He wants 100 years of war, right?
I love these people who are against the war but are voting for McCain because they don't think he's serious. As opposed to a candidate who is against the war and says that. Personally I can't make head nor tails of wingnut logic these days so I've just stopped trying.
Oh, and BTW Mr. Blank, I'll personally stop blaming Israel for starting wars when they stop killing innocent Palestinians.
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Demons v Dementia
McLame does not have dementia. I know this from the inside out, having watched my formerly brilliant father fall down the well of Alzheimer's for the past seven years. Honest John did not misspeak. He just doesn't know the issues. Stupidity, and the belief in demonizing a billion or more people, is what's at play here. Johnny the bomber is a simple man really, an angry man. War is good. Killing is an instrument of foreign policy. He believes those things to the bone. So, again, we who claim to be progressives need to vote for Hillary or Obama in November, and not sit home and pout if we don't get our way. If Obama is not the nominee, I will be disappointed, and deeply so. As Governor Richardson said today, he's a once in a lifetime leader. But, if the cards fall the other way, I will vote for Clinton, and encourage everyone I know to do so as well.
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DQuintanaNY
Syria, The Caucuses, Lebanon, the Islamic states of the FSU. Also Iran biggest endeavors now are in both Central/south Africa including Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe and Angola but Iran's biggest 'foreign development programs' now are in Central America and South America.
Pick up a book and read it once in a while.
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Bombastic Political Rhetoric.
The bombastic political rhetoric dribbling from the mouths of the Bush/Cheney mis-administration and supported by the goose stepping, rubber stamping GOP; the RNC and all of it's brown shirt slithering minions--poddle journalist's included, that is aimed at Iran is not the heart of the message. The real message is FEAR like a dagger aimed at the heart/consciousness of the American citizenry. They are using FEAR to drive the sheep into the arms of the strong FATHER figure SAVIOUR.
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"...demonic...?"
Don't be ridiculous, Joe. "The Iranian leaders are devious and perhaps even demonic" is the kind of thing I'd expect a right-wing fundie to write.
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McCain is getting a free ride from the media and the Dems - where is the DNC? The 527s?
Advantage must be taken when the gaffes are fresh in the air. Further, effectively attacking McCain will demand media coverage. It may also force his campaign to respond on its own dime, and help deplete the pitiful pile of donations that he and the GOP have mustered.
The Hagee/Parsley connection can drive home the impression among independents that McCain sold out his principles after being destroyed in the 2000 South Carolina primary by GOP slimeballs... and responded by sucking up to those very same slimeballs.
His gaming of the public financing system as the impotent FEC sits without quorum will reinforce the notion that he has devolved from a champion of public financing into the scandal-plagued, Lincoln S&L lackey of old.
And this week's "gaffe" reveals that McCain is so utterly ignorant of the basic facts on the ground in his self-proclaimed 100-year warzone that he can't identify Sunni from Shi'a, much less sh*t from shinola. Or, in the alternative, the equally sickening notion that he's simply lying the country into another boondoggle at the cost of our international prestige, $4 billion a week, nearly 4,000 American lives lost and countless others maimed and traumatized.
Meanwhile, 67% of the American public views him positively, ratings that dwarf either Obama's or Clinton's. We are frittering away this election.
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fanatics
demonic, no. fanatical, yes. dangerous? Maybe. Depends on if we elect Bombin' John or not. I choose... not.
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If McCain believed Iran is a threat...
There is another aspect to Sen. Bomb Bomb Iran's confusion. If he actually believed that Tehran was behind a terrorist threat, wouldn't he distrust Moqtada al-Sadr? If he distrusted Sadr, would he claim that the Surge was a success, relying as it does, on Sadr's ceasefire?
McCain's friends in the media have been silent on how much the Surge depends on the Mahdi Army's quietude for the appearance of success. I've seen just a few mentions of Sadr's motivation for his ceasefire, and they've all been that he could well be biding his time. If McCain thinks Iran is a threat, he wouldn't trust Sadr to keep his ceasefire any longer than it benefits him; therefore he wouldn't claim the Surge is a success.
Of course, that analysis depends on the assumption that McCain is honest and competent; and the repeated connection of Iran and al Qaeda puts at least one of those assumptions in serious doubt.
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Bomb. Bomb Iran
We have every reason to believe McCain is ready to bomb Iran, and so are Bush and Cheney. If there is not attack on Iran before the election, and McCain get's elected, you can be sure the bomb, bomb Iran option will be on the table.
The first real question is this: will the administration attack Iran between now and November in the hopes of making McCain the next President on a new wave of war driven patriotism?
The second real question is this: if Obama is the Democratic nominee and as the election approaches it appears John McCain is pretty sure to win, will Obama's forces play the "Threat and Intimidation" card. Will there be talk about taking to the streets, "burn baby burn", looting, etc. if the voters don't elect Obama President?
Will both the first and second questions be answered affirmatively this year? If so, it will be the disastrous result of the Bush war POlicy and the cultural revolution, political correctness, and "race" running together into a wreck of monumental proportions.
Right now, the odds for a wreck look pretty good to me.