The Dresden thing, eh?

Compassionate conservatism ...

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"

— George W. Bush's mother Barbara on ABC/Good Morning America, March 18, 2003

They're just the peasants, after all.

Hereditary nobility has not changed over the centuries.

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The story certainly makes sense. The bit about his wife going to Qatar adds to the credibility.

I wonder how this news will go over in Qatar. Sounds like a possible infringement of their sovereignty.

No need,Sharon already pledged to do it for the US months ago!
Only one contry in the ME is allowed to have illegal nukes.

Not quiet on the eastern front

Has the wind shifted? We were assuming that the neocons had Syria in their sights as the next target. Now it seems Iran is next on the hit list.

Unlike Iraq, Iran is not an artificial country, created so that the west would have a counterparty to sign the oil exploration contracts.

Persia has a five-thousand-year history. And the U.S. has a fifty-year history of disastrous failures at trying to install pro-American puppets there.

Expanding the war to Iran is truly a World War IV apocalpyse scenario. Would the Bushmonger go that far to get re-elected as the "wartime president"? Or simply cancel the election altogether?

It's not even his decision. The monkey dances for the organ-grinder, who's coming to visit on April 14th.

Recognizing sovereignty is not something this administration is particularly good at in general. Unless you have nukes like N.Korea,and the Soviet states, or an old commie dictator like Castro. Then we use the velvet glove or the blackjack as the case may be.

But apparently if your sovereign state is comprised of Muslims and or other non Jesus lovin' folk we will just walk in and strut our stuff.

I hate to say it and I really feel bad about what is happening. But we are getting what we asked for over there. We meaning the administration and it's religious zealots, and the good people who believe the company line about WMDs and rose petals and freedom apple pie and all that other BS.

There are plenty of people -------although I don't know any..........who want desperately to put their faith and trust in the hands of GW. Their well intentioned support of our military people and the belief that somehow 911 and Iraq are connected enough to warrant the events we have seen unfold are lending a relatively high degree of support for this crap.

My personal belief is that there is some kinda Jungian collective unconcious type thingy happening here whereby on some level a large percent of Americans actually want to blow the middle east to smithereens and are just happy as clams that this crap is escalating.

Apocolyptic ???.............Still pissed about defeat in Nam????.............Just sick of turbans and mullahs and the 7-11 guy dropping the change on the counter rather than puttin' in their hands??????

I dunno.

The religious right sure wants it to go to full blown holy war. Some of them believe it will hasten the second coming. Those folks have George's ear.

The oil barrons ...........well the Bush's are oil barrons. LOL

But whatever the cosmic causes for this shit are , I see this getting worse and worse unless and until the US starts to deal with these people like they really are people, with thousands of years worth of cultural history and religious beliefs that define who they are , what they want, and what they will do if you F with them.

Same shit, different country

What if the totalitarian dictators that the U.S. props up in Egpyt, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, and Nepal REALLY DO represent "American values"?

from the linked article:

"If Iraq is sliding toward chaos, this is exactly where most Iraqis believe the US wants them to be. A prominent Iraqi psychiatrist who has worked with the CPA and US military explained to me that "there is no way the United States can be this incompetent. The chaos here has to be at least partly deliberate." The main question on most people's minds is not if his assertion is true, but why. In this context, the sending of foreign contractors into Falluja in late-model SUVs with armed escorts - down a street clogged with traffic where they would literally be sitting ducks - only feeds suspicion that the US is deliberately instigating more violence as a pretext for "punishment" and further chaos courtesy of the US military. "

-AND-

"The day I returned home I spoke to a leading scholar of Iraqi Shi'ism, who firmly argued against the notion that the US was deliberately stoking the flames of chaos: "Believe me," he said, "they are that incompetent." And perhaps he's right - at least from 10,000 miles away a lot of the mess that is Iraq can be explained by the combination of arrogance, ignorance and ideological bolshevism of the political and military leadership in the Bush administration, coupled with the greed of their corporate sponsors."

incompetence is intentional, too ya know

Staged terror events and electronic voting machines will ensure Bush's Second Coming. I'll vote... but the die is cast IMVHO. I have standing bets with several sheeple that elections will be called off. I am prepared to lose those bets... but I don't think I will.

Hmm I wonder if Iran remembers who supplied Iraq with military support during the eighties Iran-Iraq war (including chemical weapons - gasp)? Or maybe they are thinking back to the "secret war" of October 1987 where the US shot down a Iranian passenger airliner - by mistake of course - because it was in a war zone uniliaterly declared by the US?

Nope they probably forgot about the above and the long history of the CIA interfering with their government.

They couldn't possibly have any reason or any notion to interfere with the US's plans in Iraq.

You have a salient point there, Bearman.......


In God We Trust.

We're the final arbiters of sovereignty these days....

Rummy's probably un-phased 'cos he's thinking"We can always nuke-em-if-we-need-to" can't we?

Nader, I think.