jayt @ 95

And just why *shouldn’t* Iran have a nuclear weapon? …

I think maybe the idea is that if they have nuclear power they will have little need to sell their oil to us (or the world).

But, fear of brown people of another religion might be part of it. It’s just that among the business Republicans there isn’t as much fear of the brown folks. So, it’s probably just about money.

Actually if they have nuclear power they would have less need to use it DOMESTICALLY, and could sell more of it…thus taking Iran out of a precarious economic condition. THAT recession is what the Bushies have long hoped would precipitate a popular revolution in Iran.

THEY WANT TO KEEP IRAN IMPOVERISHED!

Brisingamen @ 114

Building probably has an internal support system — the WTC towers support came from the ’skin’ of the building and heat from the jet fuel fires passed the maximum the steel could handle — major structural failure.

Sorry to disagree, but incorrect on both counts. There was massive internal structural elements in WTC 1 & 2, and jet fuel burns relatively cool.

You might be interested in these analyses by MIT Structural Scientists.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/…..apers.html

www-math.mit.edu/~bazant/WTC/WTC-asce.pdf

Jonathon — Which is why the Goldwater “Conscience of a Conservative” tome is back in my “to read” pile again, along with my battered old copy of Buckley’s “God And Man At Yale.” Although today’s conservatives are so far from that, I can’t begin to detail…but I will when I get finished with my read throughs, believe me.

I haven’t seen very many speeches of Goldwater, but for some reason I get the feeling Hillary was quite sympatico with his style. As you read the book, I wonder if you could imagine Hillary saying the things he said.

Recently she’s acting as though she has the Dem nomination and has gone on to attacking Bush. That seems forward-thinking and confident, but I wonder if it isn’t just avoidance of the intellectual fight with other Dem candidates. She’s been quite the turtle, refusing to divulge her health care plan and saying very little new stuff. So, what I wonder is if Goldwater was somewhat like that too. Was he the type to studiously work out his ideas, pop out to rant a bit and then retreat into a shell and isolate himself. I can easily imagine Hillary doing that and it also fits with what I saw of her during Clinton I.

Her ideas are obviously not the same as Goldwater’s, but she’s so close to the vest of late that it’s hard to know what her ideas are, or if she even has any.

Mike Huckabee up with Shuster. He (Huckabee) seems incredibly likable *ducks*; am I nuts?

Not at all. He was a preacher or somethin’, so he has to be likable. But, that doesn’t make him the right guy to be president in a secular government.

And just why *shouldn’t* Iran have a nuclear weapon? …

I think maybe the idea is that if they have nuclear power they will have little need to sell their oil to us (or the world).

But, fear of brown people of another religion might be part of it. It’s just that among the business Republicans there isn’t as much fear of the brown folks. So, it’s probably just about money.

Showing such photos should/could become a home page feature of FireDogLake in these times and surely moreso with Iran being put in the crosshairs of American ME militarism and crazed ignorance.

These are indeed precarious times…I am thankful for the work FDL does…day after day.

Thanks Christy. Stay with it.

I can’t stand the thought of what is going to happen to our troops on their way out…

This is my greatest concern too. Who is investigating this really? Webb and the other new Senators. But will they be able to expand the Commission to conduct this investigation?

gimme a break……….plenty out there…..i know a few who sold out for health insurance.

i wonder sometimes what i would sell out for…….i wonder……..hmmmmmm………but haven’t yet………had my chances, and didn’t……….everyone has their selling point, it’s all a part of the bargain………i don’t fault them for it, just feel sorry for them, the payoff is a hard reality.

George The Brilliant Bush offers his beliefs on how his presidency will be viewed:

“Don’t worry. History will get it right and we’ll both be dead.”

-GSD

Of course, by “history” he means Karl Rove’s next book.

Bob in HI