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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/21/cheney.iran.ap/index.html

 

 

[noliquidity]

You know I'm trying to think up a good caption for this but for some reason there is nothing funny about that guy.

[catbirdseat]

Little Johnny Jones he was a US pilot

And no shrinking violet was he.

He was mighty proud when World War III was declared.

He wasn't scared, no siree!

 

And this is what he said on

His way to Armageddon!

 

So long mom, I'm off to drop the bomb,

So don't wait up for me.

 

But while you swealter

Down there in your shelter,

You can see me,

On your TV.

 

While we're attacking frontally, watch brinkley and Huntley,

Describing contrapuntally

The cities we have lost.

No need for you to miss a minute of the agonizing holocaust.

 

So long Mom, I'm off to drop the bomb,

So don't wait up for me.

 

Although I may roam,

I'll come back to my home

Although it may be

A pile of debris.

 

Remember Mommy, I'm off to kill a commie,

So send me a salami and try to smile somehow.

I'll look for you when the war is over,

An hour and a half from now.

[dmuja]

CHE!

 

 

Apparently, he played too much competitive sports as a child.

[STP]

For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!

--Nietzsche

 

Viking kittens to the tune of Immigrant Song, Zeppelin

[EWolfe]

 

[noliquidity]

I'm telling you the damn commies are trying to brainwash us with the chlorinated water!

[Dannible]

http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#2

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http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#2

 

It's funny how the world works isn't it.

[joblo7]

funny in a kind of 'animals rule the world' kind of way.

[tvashtarkatena]

The man is nothing if not photogenic.

[Bug]

Here we go to "LIBERATE" more arabs.

[dan_forester]

the only thing wrong with the iraq war is that it's going so well, it just makes you want to invade more countries. if you're VP Cheney, anyway.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Here we go to "LIBERATE" more arabs.

 

I dare you to call a Persian an Arab.

 

[archenemy]

isn't this the guy who doesn't know who Boxer is?

[kevbone]

Here we go to "LIBERATE" more arabs.

 

I dare you to call a Persian an Arab.

 

 

Hey Persian dude sitting in the corner.....you are really an arab....

[Bug]

Here we go to "LIBERATE" more arabs.

 

I dare you to call a Persian an Arab.

Is "rag-head" OK?

I thought I saw that used here a time or two.

Oh, and thanks for the tip.

Barbara Boxer is my new hero.

[Bug]

Actually, Muslims around the world do have some issues with Persians in general.

Islam prohibits the drawing or sculpting of anything alive.

Persians tend to stretch that rule a little bit.

Hence the burning of Jimmy Carter in effigy.

 

[archenemy]

Some issues? They've hated each other forever.

[jiaofu aba]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration on Monday requested an additional $42.3 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the 2008 request for total war funding to $189.3 billion.

 

But on the other hand, 7 billion a year for kids health insurance is a bit much, especially when those getting the insurance don't need it anyway.

[Peter_Puget]

Oh Please Porter why read CNN when the always low key and reliable DEBKA boys have the real scoop:

 

This is the message prime minister Ehud Olmert is carrying urgently to French President Nicolas Sarkozy Monday and British premier Gordon Brown Tuesday, according to DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources.

 

Last week, Olmert placed the Israeli intelligence warning of an Iranian nuclear breakthrough before Russian president Vladimir Putin, while Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak presented the updated intelligence on the advances Iran has made towards its goal of a nuclear weapon to American officials in Washington, including President Bush.

 

Olmert will be telling Sarkozy and Brown that the moment for diplomacy or even tough sanctions has passed. Iran can only be stopped now from going all the way to its goal by direct, military action.

 

Information of the Iranian breakthrough prompted the latest spate of hard-hitting US statements. Sunday, Oct. 21, US vice president Cheney said: "Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions.''

 

Friday, the incoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen said US forces are capable of operations against Iran’s nuclear facilities or other targets. At his first news conference, he said: “I don’t think we’re stretched in that regard.”

 

It is worth noting that whereas Olmert’s visits are officially tagged as part of Israel’s campaign for harsher sanctions against Iran, his trips are devoted to preaching to the converted, leaders who advocate tough measures including a military option; he has avoided government heads who need persuading, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel or Italian prime minister Romano Prodi.

 

The Israeli prime minister hurried over to Moscow last Thursday after he was briefed on the hard words exchanged between Putin and Iran’s supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran Tuesday, Oct. 16.

 

According to DEBKAfile’s sources, the Russian leader warned the ayatollah that the latest development in Iran’s nuclear program prevented him from protecting Tehran from international penalties any longer; the clerical regime’s options were now reduced, he said, to halting its clandestine nuclear activities or else facing tough sanctions, or even military action.

 

The Russian ruler’s private tone of speech was in flat contrast to his public denial of knowledge of Iranian work on a nuclear weapon. It convinced Olmert to include Moscow in his European itinerary.

 

Our sources in Iran and Moscow report that Putin’s dressing-down of Khamenei followed by his three-hour conversation with the Israeli prime minister acted as catalysts for Iranian hardliners’s abrupt action in sweeping aside senior nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani Saturday, Oct. 20 and the Revolutionary Guards General Mahmoud Chaharbaghi’s threat to fire 11,000 rockets and mortars at enemy targets the minute after Iran comes under attack.

 

Our military sources say Tehran could not manage to shoot off this number of projectiles on its own. Iran would have to co-opt allies and surrogates, Syria, Hizballah, Hamas and pro-Tehran militias in Iraq to the assault.

 

DEBKAfile’s US military sources disclosed previously that if, as widely reported, Syria is in the process of building a small reactor capable of producing plutonium on the North Korean model, Iran must certainly have acquired one of these reactors before Syria, and would then be in a more advanced stage of plutonium production at a secret underground location.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration on Monday requested an additional $42.3 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the 2008 request for total war funding to $189.3 billion.

 

But on the other hand, 7 billion a year for kids health insurance is a bit much, especially when those getting the insurance don't need it anyway.

 

or a few 10's of millions to fix all the washouts on our access roads every year, or keep the national parks funded properly...

 

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NOOB ALERT!

 

 

[jiaofu aba]

And I thought porter was working today

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