winter/spring - The clone army of foreign policy "experts" from conservative foreign policy outfits nobody ever heard of before suddenly appear on all the cable news programs all the time, frowning furiously and expressing concerns about the "grave threat" that iran poses. never before heard of Iranian exile group members start appearing regularly, talking about their role in the nuclear program and talking up iran's human rights violations...
spring/summer - "liberal hawks" point out that all serious people understand the serious threat posed by serious iran, and while they acknowledge grudgingly that the Bush administration has fucked up everything it touches, they stress, and i mean stress, that we really must support the bush administration's serious efforts to deal with the serious problem and that criticisms of such serious approaches to a serious problem are highly irresponsible and come only from irrational very unserious bush haters who would rather live in iran than the u.s...
late summer - rumsfeld denies having an iran war plan "on his desk." he refuses to answer if he has one "in his file cabinet." andy card explains that you don't roll out new product until after labor day...
early fall - bush suddenly demands congress give him the authority to attack iran to ensure they "disarm." some democrats have the temerity to ask "with what army?" marshall wittman and peter beinart explain that courageous democrats will have the courageous courage to be serious and to confront the "grave threat" with seriousness and vote to send other peoples' kids off to war, otherwise they'll be seen as highly unserious on national security. neither enlists...
late october - despite the fact that all but 30 democrats vote for the resolution, republicans run a national ad campaign telling voters that democrats are objectively pro-ahmadinejad. glenn reynolds muses, sadly, that democrats aren't just anti-war, but "on the other side." nick kristof writes that liberals must support the war due to ahmadinejad's opposition to gay rights in iran...
election day - democrats lose 5 seats in the senate, 30 in the house. marshall wittman blames it on the "pro-iranian caucus."...
the day after election day - miraculously we never hear another word about the grave iranian threat. peter beinart writes a book about how serious democrats must support the liberation of venezuela and bolivia....
any questions?...thx...
heres the deal with iran...
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prince1000
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"WMD
Sometimes a hot search query – a buzzword – has longevity, and sometimes it
doesn’t. (Remember “hanging chads”?) When looking at “weapons of mass
destruction” or its acronym, we saw that last year’s search for information
fell off dramatically this year."
from: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2005.html
Sometimes a hot search query – a buzzword – has longevity, and sometimes it
doesn’t. (Remember “hanging chads”?) When looking at “weapons of mass
destruction” or its acronym, we saw that last year’s search for information
fell off dramatically this year."
from: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2005.html
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prince1000
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Freakaloin
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Freakaloin
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lol, speaking of morons, i saw that fucktard jack straw on bbc news earlier whining about iran had to prove to the 'international community' (i.e. the US administration) that they weren't working on nukes
i think iran should take up putin's offer to enrich the uranium in russia and thereby call out the west on their pathetic handwringing. if they do, watch for the abrupt goalpost shift
i think iran should take up putin's offer to enrich the uranium in russia and thereby call out the west on their pathetic handwringing. if they do, watch for the abrupt goalpost shift
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Freakaloin
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