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Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran Last year, the NIE famously concluded with "high confidence" that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Why did Obama say yesterday that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons?
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  • Jacob Kellenberger of the International Red Cross (also anti-semantic, I suppose) is on television

    pleading for help for the wounded inside Gaza as, inside the Ghetto, the soldiers enjoying Sugar Daddy's (aka Uncle Sam) go door-to-door, if any doors are left, to interrogate terrified people.

    omooex, your sophistry is unimpressive at this particular moment in history. The hydra-headed media in America must bear responsibility for the blatant partisanship of the people, whatever faith they may espouse. It's highly unlikely that all Americans are more thick-skulled than people anywhere else so why would they support the supreme right of 6 million people in a foreign country unless there were at least some element of indoctrination? I don't know about the educational system in the United States but I get the idea that victimhood is regarded as rather chic and that a considerable amount of time is spent on studies which might benefit the country more if they addressed numeracy, literacy, geography and promoted a less claustrophobic view of the world. There isn't a paradox in that because apart from the three "I"s in the Middle East, I wonder what, apart from American "exceptionalism", is the fooder fed to the children of America, some of whom will die in faraway places for causes few of us can understand.

  • Correction

    Anti-semantic and anti-semiotic though I am, indubitably so, I forgot to write "indulgence" when writing about Sugar Daddy. I'm worried that it might be a plenary indulgence which would require a Diet of Worms and a Marin Luther to be castigated.

  • @libertaint free, I think one of my female antecedents named Sioux City Sue ran off with Big Chief Sitting Bull

    and, because of that, I'd find myself likely to support the unbridled military onslaught on the Gaza Ghetto. Makes a lot of sense, really. A bientot!

  • @ Iakonnan, glad you mentioned Kruschev

    It's very interesting how we lose our ability to correctly translate a sentence when the speaker is the enemy.

    Ajad never said he would destroy Israel, just as Krushchev never said, "we shall bury you".

    Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev famously used an expression generally translated into English as "We will bury you!" ("Мы вас похороним!", transliterated as My vas pokhoronim!) while addressing Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow on November 18, 1956.[1][2][3] In fact, it was somewhat distorted. The actual quote reads: "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in" (Нравится вам или нет, но история на нашей стороне. Мы вас закопаем).

    On August 24, 1963, Khrushchev himself remarked in his speech in Yugoslavia, "I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you," [4] a reference to the Marxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism"; a popular articulation of the materialist conception of history as the inevitable progression of class struggle towards communism.

    Wiki

    This deliberate mistranslation is just as important today as it was then, as the continuing and deliberate mischaracterization of Iran's intent, is what is driving so much of this nonsense in the West's response to Iran.

  • Maureen

    I get the feeling you have no idea what I wrote.

  • @maureenodonnell

    Read your posts here there is the hate.The comments and insults are not loved filled for sure.The acts of Hamas to hide behind innocent people is an act of cowardice and the blood spilt is on thier hands as well.The americans who may die for this cause are aware.Many years ago as an Airborne soldier I spoke with veterans of D-Day 1944 and asked them how they could do it what was in them that allowed them to jump in or hit those beaches and that day changed my life.The reason they gave was principle,principle that liberty was more than an idea and that no people should be conquered or extirminated or oppressed.They believed that by standing up for those principles that they would make the lives of the ones they left behind better for that sacrifice.The people in Iraq have learned the extremists are the enemy and now they have a chance at liberty and the right to rule and decide for themselves without fear of oppression.We will leave there as we did Germany and Europe for them to decide thier own fates.It is wrong to think american soldiers are unaware of what they would be asked to give up thier lives for,they wear uniforms so all know who they are and are unafraid to expose what they may do wrong and correct it for all the world to see.This is not anything like the cowardice Hamas has shown by hiding among the innocents and bunkering down beneath hospitals.I guess the honor and bravery of the american soldier is something cowards can't understand.Hamas starts a fight then hides behind children then rallies world opposition through propaganda to continue the conflict.The blood on both sides is on thier hands and they are the ones that need to stop.

  • Of course, omooex. Haven't you heard.? We're all plastered, legless, ossified, blotto etc. etc.

    all the time. You're definitely American with that high-and-mighty attitude. Oh, maybe, you don't mean anything like that but simply that my cognitive function isn't up to par. I'm going to weep now.

  • @libertaint free, I HATE to say this but you're incedibly boring.

    Tou talked to veterans of the D-Day landings. Why didn't you just look at the film "Saving Private Ryan". Ryan is it? That sounds familiar. Oh yes, there are so many people with that surname in County Tipperary it would be difficult to forget how many of them went to the USA and fought for what were then American calues.

    Keep on coming back. As you're a French-Canadian/American Indian defending the massacre in the Gaza Ghetto, maybe you'd like to communicate in French the next time?

  • @maureenodonnell

    The massacre in Gaza because of the cowardice of Hamas.This was something Hamas should have considered before they started firing rockets,oh but they did.Hamas celebrates Palestinian deaths it rallies thier cause to extremist sympathizers like you.The Israellis wish the action wasn't made necessary.I pray not one more innocent is killed but I also hope Israel doesn't stop until the extremist are defeated and we can have a meaningful lasting peace with coexistance.Condemm Hamas for thier cowardice by hiding behind innocent children.The fact you won't speaks volumes.

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