the “same song, second verse” campaign

With apologies to Peter Noone:

I’m lyin’ through my teeth, I am
Lyin’ through my teeth, I am, I am
I’ve been spewin’ out the ol’ B-S
I’ve led this country into quite a mess
I’m really good at mendacity
I couldn’t tell the truth if I was paid
I’m the king of inveracity
Lyin’ through my teeth, I am.

Second verse, same as the first!

Wonderful! I’m sure Peter Noone would accept your apology with a chuckle. OT-Back when I was a flight attendant, Peter Noone frequently flew our airline, and apparently the other flight attendants thought he was a great guy. I only got to ride as a passenger near him on my commute home. Anyway, the FAs on the flight said he was a consistently sweet and humorous passenger.

If this administration was so damned worried about Iran, why did they “out” Valarie Plame, whose main work at the time was on intel about Iran’s nuclear capabilities? Never put security before political revenge!

The objection answers itself. For the neocons, Brewster Jennings & Associates was a problem. The intelligence on Iran shows no nuclear threat for five or ten years. If you’re a neocon, that’s bad: it means there’s time for diplomacy and no “one percent doctrinal” casus belli.

By shooting out the spotlight on Iran, Cheney cleared a path to war. His plan to out Plame was a twofer.

Bob Novack’s second “explanatory” column about Plame went beyond the first, naming Brewster Jennings. Once we might have wondered why. Not any more.

Fleitz came from CIA and apparently knew Plame’s role. He may have alerted Bolton and Cheney. That’s been my suspicion. And now here he is again, hyping Iran.

What scum.

musicsleuth @ 112

Anne @
96

Mary @ 92

twolf1 @ 89

CNN – J.C. Watts just called Plan B “an abortion the day after”

At what point will abstinence become “abortion the day before?”

At what point will sex be made illegal? When will women go back to being chattel (property)?

At what point will saying ‘no’ to sex = abortion, the day before…

If your point is that it all comes down to just saying no to sex, or that the only people who have need of Plan B are women too lazy and irresponsible to use birth control, I’m surprised you are enlightened enough to have access to a computer and appreciate what technology has afforded you the ability to do.

I don’t have time to deal with this kind of ignorance, which makes this your lucky day, because I feel a rant of epic proportions lurking.

Maybe a break is in order — you missed my point completely. My point was how no means no and that forced sex plus lack of choice = the worst of all worlds. Sheesh!

(Not to mention all the eerie similarities between this latest push and the lead up to the Iraq war.)

Speaking of Texans — ye gods, when is that Hope of ours ever gonna wake up and come visit?

Wasn’t Dr. Turtle arriving home Tues or Weds?

They might be busy.

The AP report goes on to note, “Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other U.S. military leaders have talked about Iran’s funding of the insurgency, but generally have been reluctant to directly blame the Tehran government.” And here was the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s new report, Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat (.pdf), released yesterday:

Read this now… here we go again!

• Iran has conducted a clandestine uranium enrichment program for nearly two decades in violation of its International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards agreement, and despite its claims to the contrary, Iran is seeking nuclear weapons…

Interesting, yes? Does that sound familiar? Why are they doing this? We don’t have enough soldiers to take care of Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course our only prayer is that Israel won’t follow through on the original plan and do it. It would be, I believe, the end of Israel if they dare nuke or even use conventional bombs on Iran. It’s suicide and I hope they stand up to Bush and tell him to screw himself!

How about this one:

• Iran likely has an offensive chemical weapons research and development capability.

Iran “likely” has chemical weapons RESEARCH. Wow… LIKELY has. What does that sound like? Preemptive war based on “likely” intelligence? What’s wrong with these people?

• Iran probably has an offensive biological weapons program.

That’s even worse! These damn stupid people would have to be on drugs or drunks like their boss Bush to think that we are going to fall for this again. And the sell job is even worse. Do you think Wolff Blitzer will catch on to this one?

Here’s another one!

• Iran has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East. The U.S. Intelligence Community has raised the concern that Tehran may integrate nuclear weapons into its ballistic missiles.

Read that crap… “raised the concern that Tehran may.” And tomorrow Don Rummie Dummie “may” wake up and decide to call troops up who are so old and so out of shape that he “may” have initiated a plan that would further destroy our military!

Why are they doing this? How could they have the balls to do this? And our troops are sitting there like live ammunition right across the border. There aren’t enough of them and there are NO MORE to back them up. Afghanistan is in a hellish mess, and Bush doesn’t care because they aren’t sitting on one of the top ten oil fields in the world. Those bastards!

The August pre-premptive, post-Lebanese, post defeat of the Israeli army to Hezbollah has started a little early. Drop on by the White House to learn more. They’re early this year because they are trying to start World War III. before the November midterms.

• Iran provides funding, training, weapons, rockets, and other material support to terrorist groups in Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, and elsewhere.

If I may be so bold as to note: America provides funding, some joint training, weapons, rockets and $3 billion dollars in annual support to a Jewish state/country that sometimes looks like a terrorst state and behaves like a terrorist state at times. But this expensive little “solution” to some problem I don’t understand created a bigger problem for the world than the original one! This little country has the right to exist but doesn’t understand that they have to stop killing to be allowed to exist. Actually, I want to be nice. It is better called a BULLY than a terrorist state. Let me introduce you to Israel, the Jewish state that causes much, much trouble for the USA. It’s another stupid mistake we have to live with, but we can’t blame Bush for this one.

The above description is slightly similar to the one about describing the terrorist state of Iran, only it’s about America and the Bush administration and the ultimate AMERICAN fiasco, the creation of the state of Israel.

And finally: where the hell did they come up with this on? It too has an American link that is quite similar.

• Elements of the Iranian national security apparatus are actively supporting the insurgency in Iraq.

Elements of the US government via the Defense, White House, CIA and State Departments are MORE THAN ACTIVELY supporting the Israeli government’s invasion of Palestine and Lebanon.

Is truth in the eye of the beholder or is this the beginning of another FIXED sell-up to the next war? They really have to hurry and get this done before November. They think it will save their butts.

What do you think?

You give very strong reasons why a reasonable nation wouldn’t want or have them and you may well be right, but I still believe that if they want(ed) them, they already have them. They had money, access and motivation. Those would be weighed against the reasons you gave, but who knows which side Iran took.

My point with the original is to say that it is ridiculous for this administration to rush toward war with them to prevent them from getting nukes when, if they so chose, they could have had them for at least ten years.