August 13, 2005

Here we go Again (Newsfilter)
posted by Skrik 19 years ago
  • Of course! War without end.
  • The UN's atomic watchdog has called on Iran to halt nuclear fuel development. Iran, which denies it is secretly trying to develop nuclear arms I'm not sure what use Iran would have for an alternate fuel source, but there's a huge fucking difference between nuclear fuel and nuclear weapons. Quit with the conflation of the two.
  • And people like me have been laughed at over the past three-plus years when we have been saying that it was very likely that the US would attack Iraq or Syria before the end of Bush's term. While it still may not happen, maybe now I will have less people laughing at me.
  • Well, big surprise! Whenever I bring the topic up, people think I'm either 1. crazy or 2. starting flame wars Just wait my friends... just wait... (wish I could share the info I have).
  • Is there any legitimate answer that doesn't end in "oil" why we seem determined to invade an middle eastern country that we don't like and yet don't seem to want to at least suggest invading North Korea which brags about it's nukes? (Of course for bonus points explain why we have an embargy against communist Cuba but most favored nation status with communist China...)
  • Oh come on sugarmilktea, don't tease us! :) I don't think the US will invade Iran, not enough troops for that. Bombing would be an option, but it seems really, really unwise, considering current international and US public support for the Iraq policy is waning, severely. So the "all options on the table" bluster may be just the usual sabre rattling. For one thing, Iraq's Shiites would probably go berserk if the US attacked Iran. That would be bad.
  • So Bush whips up a boogeyman story about Saddam with WMDs to settle a personal vendetta, ignoring the nation just next door who has, ever since the Gulf War has truly presented the greater threat to the region, thereby hamstringing the military into a long occupation and war of attrition and being effectively incapable of intervening on any appreciable scale when Iran (arguably the second most dangerous and fanatical Muslim nation in the region) finally decides to thumb their noses at us. The Iranians are not idiots: they know we can't do much to stop them, in the political climate that WE created which is increasingly hostile. Remind me why 51% voted for Bush again? He's a petulant child who has no appreciation of long-term consequences. Probably the broad horizon-planning portion of his brain was fried on all that cocaine he snorted. Thus Speaketh the Republican Who, for the First Time in His Life, Voted Democrat for President in 04.
  • Further to the above, I have voted Democrat, Non-Partisan, and Green for other offices.
  • Germany attacks US on Iran threat (attacks as in Schroeder saying: "Let's take the military option off the table. We have seen it doesn't work").
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  • It was just a matter of time till the other shoe dropped. Chimaera, if only the rest of the Knee-jerk* 'publicans were willing to read and think about what's going on. *'crats, too. THINK, people. *gets tired of carrying this lantern looking for the honest politician*
  • honest politician is a contradiction in terms.
  • Except for say, Robespierre, the incorruptible.
  • Oh come on sugarmilktea, don't tease us! :) Who said I was teasing!? Seriously...
  • Okay, can you give us just a little hint? E.g. what does it rhyme with?
  • Or you could email us, putting one letter in each email, and we can find some off-Google website and piece it together?
  • Heh, believe me, I wish I could! Let me just say that one of my *former* colleagues is presently facing a 10-year sentence for *sharing* info. Take your forensic computer scan... your handwriting analysis... your video imagery... fingerprinting... call logging... (and who knows what else) *calmly walks off whistling Colonel Bogey March*
  • Ok, ok, we won't hold your feet over the fire. Much. But we will indulge in uninformed speculation, as we do have Internet standards to live up to you know.
  • I honestly think Bush could be photographed, videotaped and filmed eating a live human baby in front of 40,000 cheering people and it wouldn't make a damned bit of difference. Can we talk about television now? *hops on one foot, whines*
  • SMT, thanks for the e-mail. My friends and I are making evacuation plans immediately. Greenland as you say is likely the safest place. So we will rendezvous at the stated time at Godthab, outside the consulate. I will have the blueprints. God have mercy on all our souls.
  • Ooops, please ignore the previous accidental post. That is to say, it's just a joke. HA HA HA HA HA! Who would want to go to Greenland. HA HA HA HA!
  • SB, Don't forget to bring a good permafrost spade, and an extra set of blubber boarding and mincing knives! I'll supply everything else as previously agreed. Tally-ho!
  • WTF! Greenland!? I packed swimtrunks and sun lotion! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
  • HA HA, yes a permafrost spade, very good, continuing the JOKE about Greenland. (ixnay on the entionmay of the reenlandgay) mumble, mumble
  • *wink* *wink* un-, I suspect you entered the incorrect decrypt key on our last transmission [Although I will not deter you from packing lotion with a high SPF]. Iseray ymay ellowfay onkeysmay andyay oinjay hetay evolutionray