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POPSHow To Piss Off China & Screw The Consumer All at the same time. More dangerous tires on the road? Also, in timely fashion, seeking out the Dali Lama is not a soothing fact to the Chinese. Timed more strategically, you might be able to say, "Screw 'em." I hear something about needing their support at the U.N.against, Oh..N.Korea,...Iran,..maybe even Chavez.
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POPSMight Not Be a Bad Strategic Postition For U.S. But ONLY IF we are prepared to act DECISIVELY if necessary. If we could only know the kid Barak was not just soft and naive but would actually deploy and hit hard if need be, or draw the line boldly. If they can really be "played" through this approach, then sure. Let 'em think we are impressed. You can still issue your final warnings which they may not take seriously, and when they take advantage of you, let 'em have it. Of course, historically, this has never ended well. The "Paper Tiger" can be "F'd" with, Americans die, and we issue statements, thus proving their assessments valid. I guess it's too much to ask to think we are outmaneuvering them.
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POPSWe Can Hope Iran Might Keep Obama Distracted Then maybe the business of America can take hold and proceed if it can only forget he has anything to do with this gov't. While, with each passing day he makes a new push for control and power over one more segment of the nation and it's people, the best we can hope for is that something far, far away can keep him wrapped up 24/7. He is projected, on this course, to destroy the future of this country.
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POPSWhere's The Equivelant Outrage? 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan in a war that is still just as much about Caspian oil pipelines today if it ever was before. RIGHT??? There will be more contractors running around the country as it picks up. Also, there is NO GREEN ZONE there and little other general "cover." Jeez, you compare Bushie and Barky and, when it comes down to it, which one really would have more personal caring for troops. The questionable GW? Or the guy who is definitely culturally removed from most of the guys and gals who are probably there due to "lower intelligence", lack of skills", or not as fucking cool to be like him? You tell me! !
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POPSFadlallah Made Credible by CBS Blaming the U.S. for mosque bombing and assassination attempt in '85, they ignore that he had previously blamed Israel, allowed no alternative explanations, and completely ignored the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut. The show was about world's religion so why even go into politics if they aren't going to even attempt to do a balanced job?
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POPSRemember Seymour, The Liar? Time proves what was obvious in February. Hersh = the neurotic, the poor guy who has to make up fantasies on faint whispers and rumors spread by haters.
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POPSRemember Gen.Batiste?Where's the Volume? Olbermann-Put this in the "countdown"! You loved the Gen.'s previous - and opposite - treasonous statements. Why is there so much disgusting behavior these days? Will it ever get better? Or get real?
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POPSMullahs' Lies Verified by Intel Report Aren't we exactly 0[where we were in 2004 on? It remains, as it was, that the intentions of the political-Islamist mullahs of Iran cannot be trusted to develop a nuclear program of ANY kind. It matters NOT whether there is known to be development related strictly to weapons. It seems to me that evidence of a direct path to weapons was a mystery then, as now, but that was not the #1 issue then, as it SHOULD NOT be now. The deal has been modulated away from the first hard line. That Iran can't be allowed to have free reign with uranium enrichment of any kind and it must cease. Whether or not there is a current active weapons specific program right now.
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POPSIran Halted Nuclear Program Years Ago (!?) So..U.S.was right!. And our Mdl.East "footprint"has worked! What, I ask anyone, is embarrassing about this report? Not to mention the concept regarding how it is so true now and been so wrong before. The eagerness with which conventional media takes this one seriously should eliminate ANY trace of doubt as to where the mainstream bias HEAVILY lies. No pun intended. Honestly.As least initially..... ... ok ..NOW it is intended!
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POPSThen How is it IAEA Still Has Iran/Nuke Questions? Whether or not they do or they don't or who is right or wrong, what is to be made of those who alternately doubt, then believe to their soul, contrasting opinions from the same voice? Only, specifically according to what THEY WISH to be true. And in these people's judgmental pomp, how can they be taken seriously? The NPR journalists who bitterly spit their angry, "I told you so" tinged bombs disguised as questions. The phony intelligentsia aloof in their deluded "knowledge" that the mullahs, these invaders of the Persians, are reformed or even have always been innocent of all accusations in spite of obvious evidence and widespread support of worldwide terrorism. The intellectual dishonesty is disturbing at the very least. Finally, ...The loudest brashest noisemakers concerning any attack on Iran has been from the left.
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POPS"The MUTE Button Was Broken" (Sure!) So, some are anxious (Venezuela, Iran) to take a bit more of a hit on their dollar if it helps to eventually persuade the rest of OPEC to go to the EURO. I think we can look for a serious effort, in other arenas, to talk the dollar back up again
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POPSAttack on Iran Chances? Slim to NONE, --<< Indeed, it's not even clear the vice president is an advocate of action, as opposed to tough talk, on Iran. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Admiral William Fallon, the head of Central Command for the Middle East, and probably Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice - all think military engagement with Iran is a recipe for disaster.>>--
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POPSHillaryProvokesIran,THENOpposesSame Clinton AND Giuliani need to be ruffled up but good in this campaign, with the truth of their pasts, their intentions, their motivations. Look into these people - physically and philosophically. See them for what they are. There isn't any difference.
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POPSBrotherhoodDetailsPlatform Akin to IRAN Even these hardliners are a milder cover to the real spirit of the Muslim Brotherhood. That is islamIST dominance, and submission of the infidel ~ at all costs. The methods are any deception that achieves the needed power.
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POPSIslamo-Fascism Denial --<< "The witch-hunt involves fringe groups such as the Revolutionary Communist Party, Campus Progress --a campus project funded by the Center for American Progress,an operation created by George Soros and Hillary Clinton, David Horowitz is described as a "racist" -- the standard label the Left attaches to anyone with whom it disagrees. In any case, none of this has anything to do with Islamo-Fascism -- or contradicting any of the evidence exposing the evil that it creates. Islamofascists are Muslims (hence the word 'Islam') who seek to rule the world under a totalitarian, oppressive regime (hence the word 'fascists'.) Such diverse people and groups like Saddam Hussein (a secularist), Al Qaeda, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Republic of Iran are labeled Islamofascists…" >>--
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POPSRussia Holds Key to Iran's Nukes --<< " The problem, though, is that concessions to Russia on influence in former Soviet countries would mean abandoning allies that have aligned with the United States and Europe since the early 1990s......we cannot abandon those nations that have stood by us since the end of the Cold War, and at the same time realizing that Russia will be instrumental.......to the Iranian nuclear problem. Russia is just as wary as the United States and Europe when it comes to the prospect of Iran possessing nuclear weapons
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POPSArabs Gain from US-Turkey Crisis --<< "By assaulting Turkey, President Bush and the US Congress have sharply increased Arab leverage over US policy in Iraq and opened the way to large scale Arab participation in resolution of the Iraq crisis" .>>-- ---- This interestingly explores potential aftermath of "genocide" declaration.
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POPSKhamenei Slams ME Conference With no one to negotiate with, there will be no new options. With hamas urged to keep fighting, then the only option is to put them down. And to bring back a phrase from the past, the longer Israel "keeps swatting flies", the closer we get to the day when Iran scuttles of some explosive nukes and makes a REAL statement. If you'd rather see the defeat go to the Israelis you are of course cheering the words of the Ayatollah. (Who the H raised you?)
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POPS12th Imam, We are Expecting You This activism had more in common with the revolutionary ideas of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood than with Shia traditions. Khomeini had been familiar with the texts of the Muslim Brothers since the 1930s and he agreed with the Brothers’ conception of what had to be considered “evil”: namely, all the life-affirming achievements of modernity that replaced divine providence by individual self-determination, blind faith by doubt, and the stern morality of the Sharia by sensual pleasures. For hundreds of years, the Shia variant of Islam stood for quietism and non-violence. Khomeini had subjected the tradition to a radical Jihadist reinterpretation. The myth of self-sacrifice reinforced the idea of salvation and vice-versa: the more selfless the sacrifice, the more imminent the advent of the Imam; and the closer the redemption by the Mahdi, the greater the readiness for martyrdom.
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POPSran hangs 3 in public during Ramadan http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7584&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=135 As many times as I have mentioned,it is the mullahs who are the power and the threat. It is not about Ahmadinejad anyway. We should have paid as little attention as humanly possible to him.
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POPSMORE m.o.r.Hersh Doubters MORE---------<<<<<<<<<<Juan Cole has also counseled many on the left not to hyperventilate too much about the Hersh piece >>>>>>>>-----------.
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POPSIts the Region-Its all One Action We ARE at war with Iran. It became too dangerous NOT to start the business of transforming the middle east. And you don't IMPOSE freedom on anyone. You SET them free. If they can't get the idea and they try to kill you, you do it first. Both sides of the "argument", the talking heads,the "Seymour Hershes" as well as the Hannitys, are agenda driven, removed from reality.
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POPSHersh Deranged, Dishonest Look at the face. Smug attempt to look grim covering the self satisfied,self serving, devious pleasure at having dropped his fetid, incredible load on those he hates.