Bush meets with Dalai Lama, irritates China

US seeks tough sanctions on Iran; China votes no becuase they are irritated.

Bush declares ‘diplomacy has failed’ and attacks Iran.

He will already be remembered as the WORST President ever, even without starting WWIII.

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Then also in the NY Times article there are “Jewish lawmakers” who are worried about the effect this could have on the security of Israel! They should be worried about the security of the U.S., not the security of Israel. They represent Americans, not Israelis.

Where does their allegiance lie?

American Jews contribute a LOT of money to political campaigns. That’s a big part of what the fight is over.

It isn’t all about oil prices.

“after Sept. 11, 2001″ — Why not before?

What is the deal for pre-9/11 spying?

A Presidential Medal of Freedom.

From WaPo today:

The draft Senate bill has the support of the intelligence committee’s chairman, John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), and Bush’s director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell. It will include full immunity for those companies that can demonstrate to a court that they acted

pursuant to a legal directive

in helping the government with surveillance in the United States.

Such a demonstration, which the bill says could be made in secret, would wipe out a series of pending lawsuits alleging violations of privacy rights by telecommunications companies that provided telephone records,

summaries of e-mail traffic

and other information to the government

after Sept. 11, 2001,

without receiving court warrants. Bush had repeatedly threatened to veto any legislation that lacked this provision.

“legal directive” — What would that include?

“summaries of e-mail” — Why only the summaries?

“after Sept. 11, 2001″ — Why not before?

What is the deal for pre-9/11 spying?

If these aren’t the worst people on the face of the earth, they’re in the class picture.

If I’m remembering correctly from Risen’s book, the CIA gave the Iranians plans for building a bomb.

We created al Qaeda. We trained al Qaeda. We pissed ‘em off by trying to force the oil & gas pipeline deal on ‘em in Afghanistan.

We installed Saddam Hussein. He tortured and killed Iraqis. That pissed ‘em off. We helped Kuwait and perhaps Saudi Arabia steal his oil. That pissed ‘em off. We kicked him out of Kuwait. We invaded (this time) and are still there after killing Saddam and a lot of other Iraqis. Then, to keep it going we had to arm them. Can’t have continual war without two sides. How would the war profits look if you only had one side fighting?

We installed the Shah in Iran. We pissed ‘em off. The Shah was brutal and added to it. Then, Bush & Co (the elder) helped Iran keep the hostages to get rid of Carter. We began to ‘assist’ them. Of course we had to give them the bomb plans. How else were they to build a bomb? And, of course they have to have a bomb if we’re to get to play the bongos on their heads while war profiteering.

You just can’t have a war without two sides. That’s crucial to understand. And without war there’s no war profits. Simple.

I have an idea!

Let’s impeach Bush and Cheney so we don’t have to worry anymore what Cheney might make of George’s words!

Crikey! I think he’s got it.

As far as knowledge of how to build a weapon goes, sorry Mr. Bush, but that train left the station in the mid-1960’s.

The hard part of building a weapon is not knowing how to build it. The hard part is actually building it.