Go read William Polk. The real men still want to go on to Teheran.
I’ll just go put my head in the oven, then, shall I?
NOTE Via the indispensable Avedon.
UPDATE One straw in the wind:
Apparently, President Bush’s firing of Admiral Fallon was meant to signal to the Iranians that “all options remain on the table.” This is the publically proclaimed policy of the Bush administration and has also been adopted by the Democratic Party aspirants to the White House, notably even by Barack Obama who recently said, “all options, and I mean all options, are on the table.”
Insane. All of it, all of them.
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You could've via-ed it from Chris Floyd 5 days earlier
http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/…
He’s doing incredible work there.
“Mr. Lazio pledged to release his tax returns soon after entering the Senate race in May, but had not done so… his Democratic opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, criticized the delay, asking whether he was hiding something.”
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Thank you for commenting, ribo. Welcome aboard. Help end the war in Iraq. Get your candidate to be the first to sign the Responsible Plan, and post what you did.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
October surprise?
It’s either that, or Cheney steps down to install McCain (or Condi?) as VP
Source for Obama Quote?
That’s a scary quote from Obama, so I wanted to see the context. All lead back to a guest-post by William R. Polk at Informed Comment. I can’t find it reported anywhere else (I blame Google).
Given your recent criticism of an “unsourced Ambinder post” (http://www.correntewire.com/wwtsbq_watch…) I was hoping you’d be able to show the “critical thinking skills” that you criticized Atrios and Kevin Drum for lacking and find the source of the quote.
I imagine it comes from somewhere, and I tried to find it, but could not. A little context would be helpful.
A_B, you're right
I trust the Cole brand, so I didn’t check. I have a memory of it, but I can go look. RL calls, but if I don’t run it down, call bullshit and I’ll retract. Thanks.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
Maybe?
No direct sourcing. But reported by The Nation.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060508/co…
Chris Floyd has described Obama’s posture that way too. I see no reason to be skeptical about it.
Very disappointing. But still no worse than Hillary.
“Somebody forgot to tell Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential race is over and Barack Obama won.” - Reuters, 3/27/08
A Couple of Sources for the Obama Quote
It appears he said it at AIPAC (shocking!) - http://americanfuture.net/?p=2636
And in an interview with the New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/us/pol…
And on 60 Minutes - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/1…
However, it should be noted that he doesn’t sound crazy when he says it, like Dick Cheney. He doesn’t sound like he can’t wait to rush into Iran, guns blazing. Just because the democrats use similar words to republicans, doesn’t mean they will do the same thing.
If you read the words in context, they are entirely different. Unlike many Republicans who seem to genuinely think bombing Iran is a keen idea, from what I can tell, both Democrats’ positions are keeping with a long U.S. diplomatic tradition, which is that if you’re trying to get a country to do X, you don’t announce you aren’t going to do Y if they fail to comply, even if you aren’t going to do Y. You leave Y out there as part of your pressure on the country. Which, of course, is why Nancy Pelosi should’ve never said impeachment is off the table.
On the table
Any president or presidential candidate would be a fool to negotiate with themselves about what level of force might be justified by future unknowable events.
Clinton has said the same thing about Iran:
And why would it be otherwise?
Regarding the gratuitous Pelosi backhand slap, all she did was point out reality. She didn’t “take” impeachment “off” the table, reality was that it was not on the table and would be unlikely to make it on. There is not now and has not been any significant sentiment in the House for impeachment, nor amongst the majority of the American people. Certainly it would fail in the Senate. What Pelosi said was a statement of fact, not an assertion of policy.