quiet balking, snickering and eye rolling...

[Freakaloin]

thats what the rest of the world does...someone tell bush...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 37_pf.html

[DRuM]

Thanks geoff, I needed something to read, there's been... a bit of a drought round here

[Freakaloin]

more on the way...LOTS more...questions?

[Dek]

Get your shit packed, you're going to war.. oh nm, goof likes getting his shit packed.

Like bush has enough cash to go to war.. countries already stretched too thin.

[Freakaloin]

the german economy wuz about to crash when hitler went to war..in fact...thats why he went to war...he wanted to wait 5 more years but couldn't...if he could have we would be speaking german right now...

[Dek]

yes we all know hitler=bush and he is stupider then dirt.. anything new?

[plained]

yea i doen like those things iether.

also throw excuses on there as well.

[Freakaloin]

yeah...bush grand daddy financed hitler...

[seremtan]

thats what the rest of the world does...someone tell bush...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 37_pf.html

now see this is why i avoid taking anything in the mainstream media at face value - articles just like this

it starts off drawing attention to the paper-thinness of the US case against iran, then continues with phrases that imply the case is solid, such as -

The president's direct involvement marks an escalation of a two-year effort to bring Iran before the U.N. Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions, unless Tehran gives up technology capable of enriching uranium for a bomb.

and this one's a doozy:

...despite European support, the Bush administration has traveled a tough road in persuading others that Iran should face consequences for a nuclear program it built in secret.

note the ambiguity of the words 'nuclear program', which suggests that the iran has *already* embarked on a weapons program (when it fact it's a civil energy program).

and of course the 'intelligence failure' propaganda makes an appearance:

The U.S. intelligence community no longer believes Iraq was trying to reconstitute a nuclear program, as the president said. Those and other U.S. intelligence failures have remained fresh in the minds of international decision-makers now being asked to weigh the case of Iran.

newsflash: there *was* no intelligence failure over iraq. the US & UK simply trumped up a case out of thin scraps, and used turrurism as a feeble pretext to do what we know the guys now in power in washington have been wanting to do since at least 1998

there is at least some honesty in here though:

The presentation has not been vetted through standard U.S. intelligence channels because it does not include secret material. One U.S. official involved in the briefing said the intelligence community had nothing to do with the presentation and "probably would have disavowed some of it because it draws conclusions that aren't strictly supported by the facts."

a very slippery piece of journalism all told

[Nightshade]

newsflash: there *was* no intelligence failure over iraq. the US & UK simply trumped up a case out of thin scraps, and used turrurism as a feeble pretext to do what we know the guys now in power in washington have been wanting to do since at least 1998

And yet Bush & Co. managed to spin, dodge, and deflect all of that into "We need to reform our intelligence services".

AND PEOPLE STILL THINK THIS GUY IS THE SECOND COMING.

[Dek]

I will shoot myself if Jeb makes a run for the white house anytime soon.


/maybe I'll just move north/south or overseas.. then I can point and laugh if he gets elected. I seriously thought about moving when Bush was elected this time... I got some buds in Victoria..

[neh]

blah blah blah - Bush is a retard - how is this news - you fuckers voted him in you know

[seremtan]

i don't think 51% of the 60% who voted counts as 'you fuckers' actually

[neh]

i don't think 51% of the 60% who voted counts as 'you fuckers' actually

lol - its a deomcracy - failing to vote at all is as a good as a vote

[Nightshade]

Many of us DID NOT vote for the chimp. Not that Herman Munster was going to be much better.
It really comes down to issues like religion, abortion, homos, and minorities. Other than that, they're all the same.

[neh]

yeah turns out its actually the rest of the planets bad luck too huh