Welcome. Thank you for joining us. Please pardon the mess. The cleaning lady is supposed to come once a month, but since the poo-flinging incident she hasn't been back.
Ya know, how many times do I have to apologize for that....sheesh.
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Jun 14, 2013 - 8:24am
kiarash wrote:
I think I'm the first iranian to post in this thread. just dropped by to say hello
Welcome. Thank you for joining us. Please pardon the mess. The cleaning lady is supposed to come once a month, but since the poo-flinging incident she hasn't been back.
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Feb 28, 2013 - 8:52am
gypsyman wrote:
Life taught me a long time ago, if the asshole that smacked you while you weren't looking isn't going to own up, somebody's still gotta pay. Look the bunch of them in the eye, ask, "who did it?" and when nobody answers, explain you're gonna decide at random who pays. Still, nobody owns up. Then, you pick one and hit 'em so hard a snot bubble pops outta their nose.
Popular opinion? Most definitely not. Politically correct? Fuck politically correct. Effective? 100%. Stop making all this stuff more complicated than it really is.
Henh. Uh, Henh, Henh. He said, "snot bubble". Henh, Henh.
Today's Iraq is a direct consequence of our war, our invasion, our occupation. That's our crowd in Baghdad, cozying up to Iran.
And the cost of that war to strip Iraq of weapons it did not have? Four thousand five hundred American dead, 35,000 wounded, $1 trillion and 100,000 Iraqi dead. Half a million widows and orphans. A centuries-old Christian community ravaged. And, yes, an Iraq tilting to Iran and descending into sectarian, civil and ethnic war. A disaster of epochal proportions.
But that disaster was not the doing of Barack Obama, but of people of the same semi-hysterical mindset as Ms. Rubin.
Buchanan, unknowingly perhaps, is confirming the prescience of Ret. Gen. William Odom, director of the NSA under Reagan, who foretold this disaster of epochal proportions six years ago:
the assumption that the United States could create a liberal, constitutional democracy in Iraq defies just about everything known by professional students of the topic . . .
Undoubtedly we will leave a mess — the mess we created, which has become worse each year we have remained. Lawmakers gravely proclaim their opposition to the war, but in the next breath express fear that quitting it will leave a blood bath, a civil war, a terrorist haven, a "failed state," or some other horror. But this "aftermath" is already upon us; a prolonged U.S. occupation cannot prevent what already exists.
Life taught me a long time ago, if the asshole that smacked you while you weren't looking isn't going to own up, somebody's still gotta pay. Look the bunch of them in the eye, ask, "who did it?" and when nobody answers, explain you're gonna decide at random who pays. Still, nobody owns up. Then, you pick one and hit 'em so hard a snot bubble pops outta their nose.
Popular opinion? Most definitely not. Politically correct? Fuck politically correct. Effective? 100%. Stop making all this stuff more complicated than it really is.
Today's Iraq is a direct consequence of our war, our invasion, our occupation. That's our crowd in Baghdad, cozying up to Iran.
And the cost of that war to strip Iraq of weapons it did not have? Four thousand five hundred American dead, 35,000 wounded, $1 trillion and 100,000 Iraqi dead. Half a million widows and orphans. A centuries-old Christian community ravaged. And, yes, an Iraq tilting to Iran and descending into sectarian, civil and ethnic war. A disaster of epochal proportions.
But that disaster was not the doing of Barack Obama, but of people of the same semi-hysterical mindset as Ms. Rubin.
Buchanan, unknowingly perhaps, is confirming the prescience of Ret. Gen. William Odom, director of the NSA under Reagan, who foretold this disaster of epochal proportions six years ago:
the assumption that the United States could create a liberal, constitutional democracy in Iraq defies just about everything known by professional students of the topic . . .
Undoubtedly we will leave a mess — the mess we created, which has become worse each year we have remained. Lawmakers gravely proclaim their opposition to the war, but in the next breath express fear that quitting it will leave a blood bath, a civil war, a terrorist haven, a "failed state," or some other horror. But this "aftermath" is already upon us; a prolonged U.S. occupation cannot prevent what already exists.
The Pentagon views the weak, militarily surrounded and impoverished country of Iran as the greatest threat America faces, according to one of the US’s top military officials.
Adm. James Winnefeld, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a Washington think-tank on Tuesday that he doesn’t “see any greater challenge than Iran.”
Of all the general national security threats America faces, Winnefeld said, including economic threats, terrorist threats, and the threat of a potential offensive military strike on the US, “you find Iran touches (them) one way or the other.”
Part of the reason this answer comes so easily to the political and military establishment is because of the mantra about Iran trying to develop nuclear weapons. But there is a consensus in the intelligence community that Iran has no such weapons program.
The US is not so concerned with Iranian military capabilities per se. Iran is one of the few states in the geo-strategically vital Persian Gulf area that isn’t a client of the US, doing the bidding of Washington power-brokers in exchange for economic, military, and diplomatic support. This disobedience is the real threat to an America that wants complete control over the Middle East.
“It is a matter of faith among many American politicians that Iran is the greatest danger now facing the country,” writes Micah Zenko, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “But if that is true, then the United States can breathe easy: Iran is a weak military power.”
According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Iran’s“military forces have almost no modern armor, artillery, aircraft or major combat ships, and UN sanctions will likely obstruct the purchase of high-technology weapons for the foreseeable future.”
Even if Iran did have nuclear weapons, which it doesn’t, “the threat to the US homeland would continue to be minimal,” according to Zenko.
But the military establishment continues to habitually hype threats that don’t exist, because it fills the pockets of rent-seekers in the military industrial complex and it serves the bureaucratic interests of powerful hawks in Washington.
This world sucks.I'd like to see Iran get the bomb,nuke us,so we can nuke them back.Israel,Pakistan, etc can join in and do whatever they can to help reduce this shit hole of a planet the the charred cinder it should be.
I've seen a lot of radical stuff on the other side, mirrored by American attitudes of "us and them." I suppose the old axiom of "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." is still quite evident and in full effect. There must be a better solution than adopting the enemy's stratagem. Pity we can't figure it out. Force tends to reap only temporary results. Sure, we could kill a lot of idiots... but their deaths will always come back to haunt us.
This world sucks.I'd like to see Iran get the bomb,nuke us,so we can nuke them back.Israel,Pakistan, etc can join in and do whatever they can to help reduce this shit hole of a planet the the charred cinder it should be.
If you don't mind I'd like to watch this 'show' a bit longer...
This world sucks.I'd like to see Iran get the bomb,nuke us,so we can nuke them back.Israel,Pakistan, etc can join in and do whatever they can to help reduce this shit hole of a planet the the charred cinder it should be.
You know what? I see the logic in this and don't necessarily think this is a bad notion.
This world sucks.I'd like to see Iran get the bomb,nuke us,so we can nuke them back.Israel,Pakistan, etc can join in and do whatever they can to help reduce this shit hole of a planet the the charred cinder it should be.
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Jul 12, 2012 - 8:37am
A very interesting article, written by a friend, about the influence of satellite dishes in Iran
