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March 11, 2009

Seems Like Old Times

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have stated repeatedly that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Is that based on the assessment of the U.S. intelligence agencies, or are they, like the Bush administration, just saying whatever the fuck they want? As Charles Davis explains, the answer is apparently the latter.

—Jonathan Schwarz

Posted at March 11, 2009 11:53 PM
Comments

C'mon, Jon, Obama's only been in office for 50 days! You have to give him a chance! Besides, he may not be perfect, but his virtues outweigh his defects! And surely, comrades, you do not want Bush back?

Posted by: Duncan at March 12, 2009 09:24 AM

Criticism of Obama and co. means wanting Bush back?

Come to think of it, how do we know YOU don't have a nuclear weapon, comrade?

Posted by: Carl at March 12, 2009 12:09 PM

Jon is obviously a right-wing republican who listens to Rush Limbaugh and wants Obama to fail! How dare he criticize God-Emperor Obama!

Posted by: AlanSmithee at March 12, 2009 12:26 PM

oh, even a dumb nagger like Obama knows that Iran has nuclear ambitions. Certainly the British, French and Russians know it. It seems only dumbfuck parlor leftists are out of the loop.

Eh, I plan a trip to Iran later this year. It's possible to admire Iranian culture and society without having to have dumbfuck idiotic illusions about Iran's military and geo-political objectives.

Really, how can you people have the benefit of expensive (and expensive is not the same as good) educations, and still be so fucking stupid?

Posted by: visitor at March 12, 2009 12:38 PM

Well, that fellow was quite rude. Now, has anyone seen my copy of Ivory Tower Weekly?

Posted by: parlor leftist at March 12, 2009 01:34 PM

visitor: Izzat U, Stubby?

Posted by: Mike Meyer at March 12, 2009 02:41 PM

...just saying whatever the fuck they want?

There's other possibilities that account for it. Most prominent - "just saying whatever the fuck they're told to say".
But then that leads directly, in the still conscious, to "Who's telling them?".
And we don't want to go there, do we?
How anyone could look at images of Clinton from the campaign and not see existential fear and a hopeless conflicted obedience, certainly nothing like autonomy or the raw ambitious egoism the stereotype calls for, is beyond me.
Well no it isn't, but I wish it was. It should be.
It was so fucking obvious.
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too..."
"We"?
"We" who?
Who's he talking about?

Posted by: roy belmont at March 12, 2009 04:17 PM

roy belmont: NO matter who tells them, reality built out of shit and toilet paper STILL melts when it rains. So much for MASTERS of reality.

Posted by: Mike Meyer at March 12, 2009 04:38 PM

I think it sounds liberating to say whatever you want. POOPIE! Yes very nice.
BO and HC, lick a smelly taint you poofters. You hypocrites are running the country with the ridiculous amount of world ending nukes. It is the sane thing to want to protect yourself from an empire out of control, so please STFU bitches. The average Iranian dude on the street has a more sane and intelligent view of civics than any asshole in the Whine House. Not only that, they don't think they know what's best for everyone else, go figure.

And another thing USA White House, nobody believes shit you say anyway. Keep playin those fiddles mofos.

Uncle $cam I hear what you're saying. It might to help to use left/right brain function as a metaphor.
Right wingers would be controlled by their left brains, therefore they are highly structured and disciplined, and apt to form the shadowy corporate conspiracies we all know and love.
The Left however, is ruled by the right brain which means everyone goes in their own random direction.

Also ...poopie... and as such, I digress.

Posted by: tim at March 12, 2009 05:54 PM

I see vissy has dropped by to benefit us with his superior wisdom by dragging out his eeny-teeny-tiny penis and wiggling it around for all to admire.

Eh.

Posted by: AlanSmithee at March 12, 2009 06:27 PM

Dennis Blair's testimony that "Iran has not produced the highly enriched uranium necessary for a nuclear weapon and has not decided to do so" sounded to me like a message to the howler monkeys celebrating their takedown of Chas Freeman.

The message being: "No, fuck you."

Posted by: Nell at March 12, 2009 06:59 PM

I obviously have no idea whether or not Iran has a nuclear weapons program. But wouldn't it be strange for them not to have one?

Posted by: Seth at March 12, 2009 10:38 PM

I obviously have no idea whether or not Iran has a giant death-ray robot. But wouldn't it be strange for them not to have one?

Posted by: AlanSmithee at March 13, 2009 06:19 AM

AlanSmithee: Between your dick jokes and your preschool sarcasm and your stupid screenname you sound like a great guy.

Posted by: Seth at March 13, 2009 11:37 AM

Why do people keep picking on my name?

Posted by: AlanSmithee at March 13, 2009 12:26 PM

Its the double e's.

Posted by: Mike Meyer at March 13, 2009 12:45 PM

Oh. Yeah, I suppose.

Posted by: AlanSmithee at March 13, 2009 09:07 PM

Maybe if YOU substituted a Y YOU would lose some of the flak, not here, of course, but in a first impression situation, perhaps.

Posted by: Mike Meyer at March 14, 2009 12:54 AM

Read Uncle $cam's 1st comment with the voice of Howard Cosell. ~awesome~ That's rhetoric bitches.

Posted by: tim at March 14, 2009 03:57 AM

I would like to read Uncle $cam's comment. What happened to it?

Posted by: ran at March 17, 2009 10:22 PM