The Iranians are showing us how we ought to have responded when our elections were stolen in 2000 and 2004. Check out http://www.stealingamerica.org and watch the whole documentary for free online.

When a Repub smiles, an angel gets their wings repossessed.

These are the same people who sold weapons to both sides in the Iran Iraq war. All they want is more war, death, and ignorance.

In nations as destabilized as Iran (and now Iraq and soon Afghanistan) it seems to be a pattern that thugs take over the security and, knowing only previous thuggerey (as in the CIA’s trained SAVAK torturers in Iran), create an even harsher climate.

That is the legacy of weapons export and American destabilization programs. The Repukes have it all figured out.

lol!

So have a lot of other brave people over the centuries…
http://warisaracket.com/

Thank you for shedding light and truth…whenever has it been smart to believe a word from McCain..To wit: Calling off his campaign to fix the financial system ;)).

All these guys no doubt “heart” the oil industry and the MIT. Is there a strong voice in our country for sanity and peace: Study War NO More.

Still waiting for someone to point out, to John McCain’s face, that these plucky, brave, democracy-loving Iranians would all be dead if ol’ “Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran” had his way.

Not gonna happen, is it?

nope. if only…

You do not really think he could connect the dots, do you?

Isn’t funny how neocons are only conerned about human rights when they want to invade? They are so disingenuous, and will do and say anything to get us involved in another war over resources.

Perfect example of this is neocon, Dan Senor saying that Democrats hated Reagan more than Communism, when he was comparing the Velvet Revolution to what’s going on in Iran today.

http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=1875

Idiot neocon loving noisemaker McShame is now in temper tantrum mode. During the Russian/Georgian conflict, the clown and his entourage pulled the same garbage. Of course when the truth came out, that Georgia was the agressor, the media went into hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil mode.

LOL

Not for a second would I miss seeing any of these faces, ever again.

A certain J’ne sais quoi….I was just thinking there is some way that Mc and Lindsay sort of look alike….weird.

“Yet nobody in the Traditional Media will dare call them out on their amorality and stupidity.”
At least we have firedoglake!

in case y’all missed it

senate wannabe and baby bloodlust Maraco Rubio weighs in

heyyyy, that names sounds kinda ‘furin

Let’s check out a brief history of Republicans and Iran. In 1953, Republican President Eisenhower gave the go-ahead to our CIA to help the Brits overthrow the democracy in Iran and put in the vile dictator Shah. It took the Iranian people twenty-six long years to get rid of the Shah. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, what was the Republican response. First of course, there was the treasonous arms-for-hostages deal, engineered by Reagan aides, so that they could illegally funnel millions of dollars to the thuggish Contras in Nicaragua, who were trying to destroy the progressive new government there.

Later, Reagan gave WMDs (poison gas) to dictator Saddam of Iraq and egged him on to start a vicious war against Iran. Reagan hoped to destroy the Iranian Revolution and to bring back a dictator who would ensure that we got cheap oil.

Bush in the 21st century, demonized the Iranian government as part of the so-called “axis of evil.” The actual axis of evil under Bush ran from the White House to the CIA to the Defense Dept.

Now big-mouthed hypocritical Republicans are demanding that President Obama be more forceful in defense of free elections in Iran. Funny, these same Republicans were silent as mice when the GOP was hacking, rigging, fixing, Diebolding and stealing elections in 2000, 2002 and 2002…

Another fuckin’ chickenhawk, like our spreader of chickenshit pez rojo.

…are stupid, evil, or quite possibly both

My money’s on both.

For any sane, thinking person the last thing the demonstrators in Iran need is US fingerprints on any aspect of this uprising.

But war mongering is a hard habit to break, I guess.

Ya the apology tour continues and the world is seeing the US as being absolutely weak and ignorant on most all matters. Also figures you guys would like a Iranian leader who is into nationalizing portions of an economy.

Luckily it is appearing Obama’s attempt at ramming his version of health care down our throats is slowly loosing traction. Guess the 270 million people with health care is starting to realize what government run health care will do for them.

That’s their answer for everything: If only everyone had a gun, a bible, was white, straight, a business owner, and a southerner, the world would be perfect.

The point being that we overthrew the elected govt of Iran and put in our own puppet at the request of the major OIL COMPANIES and we did the same in GWI and GWII(Iraq). For the OIL COMPANIES. Way back at the begining of the 20th century we sent in the Marines to many countries in the Caribbean basin because CORPORATIONS was having problems with the natives. We replaced elected govts with puppets all over Latin and South America. All for Corporations. We forced Japan to open up because our companies wanted access to their markets. We have done this all over the world almost since the begining of our country. We the people actually have no voice in govt, congress is made up of people who are anxious to get on the money train. The bag men of the corps-lobbyists-can get whatever they want out of congress. When has congress actually done something for the voters rather than the corps?(FDR being the exception rather than the rule) We are not the country our founding documents declare we are. We are a ccountry of by and for the corporations. Everything that congress has done gives money to companies or allows them to make obscene profits at the expense of their workers or places they are located. Who cleans up the messes that the companies have made? Who winds up supporting the workers made ill by company practices? Sure, the corps are where the jobs are at. But in other countries management does not get rich at the expence of their work force, in other countries workers are treated much better. We work for piss poor wages, go into massive debt at usurious interest rates, because that is what the corporations want. Our health care is among the worst in the world, yet congress continues to do the for profit insurance companies bidding. And we continue to elect and reelect the same crooks all the while saying, my guy is great, but your guy is a crook. What do we do about it all? We talk a lot but in the end do nothing.

Jane’s upstairs
Barney Frank: Committee to Hold Hearings on the Federal Reserve Transparency Act

Are you a robot?

That remark is offensive to automata.

Oh shit. Don’t wanna piss them off!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA4iPFsEW0I

good lawd kurt .. “the arab world sees us as weak ??” that puts you in agreement with what osama bin laden used to say .. may still say .. AFAIK ..

i think our six years in iraq and afghanistan on the ground has pretty well dispelled the notion we’re a nation too cowardly to fight ..

and it’s not like the entire world didn’t know about our dirty dealings concerning mossadeq ..and the change in tenor has sparked some ongoing changes ..positive ones ..

all the old foreign policy heads ..kissinger .. brezenski .. even armitage ..lugar .. agree on that .. you’re just chopped liver in comparison ..

and any health care package we get will be brought forth and voted on by our representatives in congress assembled .. and enacted into law under our system of governance .. not imposed on us by teh POTUS [barak obama] .. but imo .. you can relax on health care .. the health care insurers have already bought the US gov’t .. and we won’t see any meaningful health care reform anyway ..

got any more demons we can help excise ??

Dear Kurt: Osama loves it when guys like you talk. Here’s why:

Question 2: In radicalizing your sympathizers, who is your best ally?

No points awarded for “the media” or “sympathetic foreign governments”. In radicalizing your apathetic sympathizers, you have no better ally than the violent extremists on the other side . Only they can convince your people that compromise is impossible. Only they can raise your countrymen’s level of fear and despair to the point that large numbers are willing to take up arms and follow your lead. A few blown up apartment buildings and dead schoolchildren will get you more recruits than the best revolutionary tracts ever written.

Perversely, this means that you are the best ally of the extremists on the other side. That doesn’t mean you love or even talk to each other — they are, after all, vile and despicable demons. But at this stage in the process your interests align. Both of you want to invert the bell curve, to flatten out that big hump in the middle and drive people to the edges. That’s why extremists come in pairs: Caesar and Pompey, the Nazis and the Communists, Sharon and Arafat, Bush and Bin Laden. Each side needs a demonic opposite in order to galvanize its supporters.

Naive observers frequently decry the apparent counter-productivity of extremist attacks. Don’t the leaders of Hamas understand that every suicide bombing makes the Israelis that much more determined not to give the Palestinians a state? Don’t they realize that the Israeli government will strike back even harder, and inflict even more suffering on the Palestinian people? Of course they do; they’re not idiots. The Israeli response is exactly what they’re counting on. More airstrikes, more repression, more poverty — fewer opportunities for normal life to get in the way of the Great Struggle.

The cycle of violence may be vicious, but it is not pointless. Each round of strike-and-counterstrike makes the political center less tenable. The surviving radical leaders on each side energize their respective bases and cement their respective holds on power. The first round of the playoffs is always the two extremes against the center. Only after the center is vanquished will you meet your radical counterparts in the championship round.

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We need to realize that we play to the same audience as Bin Laden: those Muslims trying to choose between the twin dreams of the Caliphate and of finding their own place in the world economy. Anything that persuades them that the world is open to them works in our favor. Anything that closes the door on them works for Bin Laden.

Most of all, we Americans need to keep a leash on our own radicals. They are not working in our interests any more than Bin Laden is working in the interests of ordinary Muslims. The extremists on both sides serve each other, not the people they claim to represent. The cycle of attack-and-reprisal strengthens radicals on both both sides at the expense of those in the middle who just want to live their lives.

In the face of the next attack, be slow to embrace radical, violent, or angry solutions. The center must hold.

Excellent point!

Thankfully, the endorsement of the defeated and disreputable Party of Hoover is unlikely to have the effect that a President or even a Democrat would.

Let’s hope that our party leaders have the sense to keep their mouths shut or to at most stick to vague hopes that Iran will resolve the situation in keeping with its laws and democratic institutions. Lately it seems like the Democrats can’t hear a Republican talking point without jumping up and down and crying “Me too!”