- President George Bush and his tag-along buddy John McCain
are repeating almost word for word about Iran the pattern of lies and threats
they used to justify the war against Iraq.
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- Our intelligence agencies have said that Iran gave up
the pursuit of a nuclear weapon three years ago. President Bush makes speeches
as if he's never heard of any intelligence agencies. That's what worries
me about President Bush. His words very often defy and contradict reality.
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- Recently, he almost repeated word for word a theme he
often used in the buildup to the Iraq aggression. It was, he said, unthinkable
to allow "the most dangerous regime to acquire the most dangerous
weapons." This guy might actually launch an attack on Iran before
his term expires. If he does, you can kiss the world economy goodbye. You
don't like $4-a-gallon gas? How about $10 a gallon?
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- In the first place, Iran is far from the most dangerous
regime in the world. I would say it is not dangerous at all, so far as
the United States is concerned. Except for idiots, sane people assess threats
based on capability, not on political rhetoric, intentions or imagination.
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- So what are the capabilities of Iran? It has no nuclear
weapons. We have about 3,000 or more. One American submarine could destroy
the entire country of Iran and its population. Iran has no missiles that
could reach us. It has no aircraft that could reach us. Its army couldn't
even defeat Iraq.
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- So what I want to know is how in the blankety-blank Hades
Bush and McCain define the word "dangerous"? When their statements
about Iran are placed side by side with the known facts, Bush and McCain
sound insane.
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- Nothing alarms me more than the thought of an irrational
person in the White House. I'm OK with stupid. I can live with venal. I
can tolerate a womanizer, even a drunk, but a crazy person in command of
our nuclear forces gives me the heebie-jeebies. Somebody who can't tell
the difference between a nuclear-free Iran with no ICBMs and Russia with
thousands of nuclear warheads sitting atop advanced intercontinental missiles
has no business being allowed in the White House, even as a tourist.
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- There are two countries that have the capability of being
a threat to us Russia and China. That's foreign policy and geopolitical
strategy at the kindergarten level. They have the capability. No other
country in the world does. Only a moron would worry more about an ex-college
professor with a long name whose office doesn't even control the armed
forces than he would about Vladimir Putin. This present American administration,
in one of the dumbest moves in the history of diplomacy, neglected our
relations with Russia while it got us bogged down in two small desert countries
that don't amount to a hill of coffee beans.
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- Also bear in mind that it doesn't matter diddly squat
if some small country manages to make a few nuclear weapons. A few is no
threat to many. Nobody with a few would be tempted to attack any country
with many nuclear weapons.
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- Deterrence worked when the Soviet Union had 30,000 nuclear
warheads, but these moronic, unscrupulous, intellectually dishonest, dishonorable
neocons would convince you that deterrence wouldn't work against Iran.
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- I know most secular folks equate religion with insanity,
but they are not the same. Iran is a religious nation, but its leaders
are not crazy. They are smart and well-educated. They fought a long, grueling
war with Iraq, and I think what they want more than anything else is a
little peace and prosperity. But I think they are worried about Bush, McCain
and Israel, and I don't blame them.
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