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October surprise: we will attack Iran

Brian — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:12:14 +0000

I am now 100% convinced that we will attack Iran before the fall elections. I’d suspected for quite a while that the Administration wanted this, but I think we now have concrete evidence that it will happen. You may have heard, Admiral Fallon “resigned” yesterday. Galrahn points out some interesting facts at Information Dissemination.

Four star flag officers, particularly Joint Combatant Commanders, do not resign in the middle of war because of a media report. I read the Esquire article from front to back 5 times, I cannot find a single negative quote from Adm. Fallon about President Bush. [...]

George “Waterboarder” Bush

Eric — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:03:55 +0000

…so THAT’S what the “W” stand for!

At least Bush managed to improve Iran/Iraq relations…

Brian — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:44:37 +0000

Sigh.

It’s a damning indication of how poorly things have gone for the United States during its five-year misadventure in Iraq that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can drive in broad daylight though this war-ravaged city and spend the night at the presidential palace, but George W. Bush can’t.

Mr. Ahmadinejad was greeted with lavish ceremony yesterday as he became the first Iranian President to visit Baghdad, a trip some said reflected Iran’s great and growing power in Iraq and how severely the U.S. effort to remake Iraq into a Western-friendly democracy has gone awry.

Nearly 4,000 American soldiers have died since [...]

The ‘liberal media’ scraps ‘Nucular Iran’ docudrama

Brian — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:01:44 +0000

CNN – known as the “Clinton News Network” to wingnuts, because they are so “liberal” – has dropped a “speculative documentary” that was set to air next week because of the new NIE that pointed out that Iran stopped their nuclear weapons program 4 years ago.

The latest National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran discontinued its nuclear weapons program four years ago has claimed one casualty: CNN has postponed speculative documentary “We Were Warned — Iran Goes Nuclear.”

The two-hour spec, which was slated for Dec. 12 under the “CNN Presents” banner, was “set partially in the future,” featuring [...]

Rudy’s “one hour” myth

Brian — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:41:57 +0000

Rudy “9/11″ Giuliani’s new advert puts forth a horribly false meme: that the Iranian hostages were released within an hour of Reagan’s inauguration (true) because Reagan was “tough on terror” (false).

Unfortunately for Rudy’s version of history, what actually happened was the release agreement was signed the day before the inaugural… and was negotiated by the Carter White House (led by Warren Christopher).

But why let facts get in the way of a good rant? “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!”

NINE ELEVEN!

Note to Patrick Poole and followers of fear (Video)

Eric — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:29:00 +0000

(ht Schecter)

If you don’t get The Young Turks first hour podcast you are really missing out!

Commentary and more after the jump

Here’s the thing about Poole and company that is funny – well, the first most funny thing is Patrick actually thinks the Columbus Mayor’s race is close. PP, my brother. Get some political instincts before coming at me with that claptrap. Learn how to read tea leaves. That race was over before it began. In your wildest circle jerk fantasy with Naugle would this be the outcome. Not in the real world, [...]

Terrorists, terrorists everywhere!

Brian — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:47:35 +0000

Despite the claims of our right-wing friends here in Ohio that there are terrorists or pro-terrorist Muslims around every corner, a recent study shows that most terrorism arrests never actually result in terrorism prosecutions.

Six years of investigations and prosecutions have turned up little evidence of Islamic jihadists at work in the United States, according to a study released Monday.

The study, conducted by New York University’s Center on Law and Security, tracked 510 cases billed as terrorism-related when arrests were made.

But it found only 158 of those people arrested since al Qaeda’s September 11, 2001, attacks [...]

Warrentless wiretapping in place prior to 9/11

Brian — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:51:03 +0000

In what might be the least surprising development ever (after all, we already knew Bush wanted to attack Iraq before 9/11), it appears Qwest was approached by the government to spy on Americans several months before that big event that allegedly “changed everything”, and has been used to justify virtually everything this Administration has attempted.

A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after Qwest refused to participate in an unidentified National Security Agency program that the company thought might [...]

A Nation of Bedwetters

Brian — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:30:04 +0000

This article by Rick Perlstein perfectly underlines what a bunch of sissies we’ve been over the entire Ahmadinejad visit. I’ve made this comparison elsewhere – why can’t be behave like we did when Nikita “We will bury you” Khrushchev visited during the height of the Cold War in 1959?

Nikita Khrushchev disembarked from his plane at Andrews Air Force Base to a 21-gun salute and a receiving line of 63 officials and bureaucrats, ending with President Eisenhower. He rode 13 miles with Ike in an open limousine to his guest quarters across from the White House. Then he met [...]

Are we safer? Are we winning the “War on Terror”?

Brian — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:55:40 +0000

It’s funny ’cause it’s true. In a “laugh so you don’t cry” kind of way, of course.

(The answer to the title questions is, of course, “no”.)