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2006-11-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by DanNY 2006-11-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sorry, Ledeen, I don't buy the premise. Moab is coming to AhMad at a date and time of our choosing.

Posted by Captain America 2006-11-02 00:40|| 2006-11-02 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Lawzy, lawzy, it's the same old story: Why isn't Bush as smart as me? Why, if I wuz King of the World, it'd be honey and sweetmeats for the Good People and everlasting hellfire for the Bad People.

And I'd know 'em - on sight. And the wars would run on time. My time. When I wanted it. I would not fumble the peace, cuz, well, cuz I wouldn't. I'd do it better.

Sometimes, like my Lefty Looney enemies, I wonder how that dumb cluck Bush manages to tie his own shoes. I can pose the burning questions - and answer them in 20 column inches. I sit here, safe and sound in my office, free to say anything I want, no recriminations. Oh, sure, maybe someone jibes me at lunch for last month's column where I got it all wrong, but it doesn't matter, I just write shit for a living. No harm, no foul.

But honestly, no really, this time I'm right. I gaze upon my dominion out the window, and I just know I'm the most brilliant mother-loving sumbitch that ever drew breath. I've got the answers - and those stupid drones never call me.

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Posted by .com 2006-11-02 03:13|| 2006-11-02 03:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Iran will be left for the next administration. Consider it Bush way of saying to the next (and the next) prez, "May your life be interesting."

Posted by ed 2006-11-02 08:38|| 2006-11-02 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Leeden has been saying faster, faster for some time but as far as I'm aware never really provided a roadmap of what such action would be like.

Would the people of Iran overthrow their government with a bit of help? Or are we being sold that story to get us involved the way Chalabi told the CIA (or was it State) what they wanted to hear. I've seen riots in Iran that peter out. Perhaps if they really want the Mullahs out the people in Iran shouldn't wait for our blessing or help but should throw the bums out on their own.

Posted by rjschwarz 2006-11-02 15:04|| 2006-11-02 15:04|| Front Page Top

#5 That could be due to any number of reasons, ranging from a belief that he had to give the Europeans every chance to force the Iranians to abandon their nuclear project, to purely domestic calculations that he lacks sufficient political capital to directly challenge the mullahs.

Or maybe he's doing it just to piss you off, Ledeen.

Posted by Pappy 2006-11-02 22:12|| 2006-11-02 22:12|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm kind of done with the nation building "thing". I was having a discussion with my father the other night... and he was all for blood thirsty destruction in Syria and Iran - but not a damn cent for rebuilding or occupation in either country.

If the axis of evil doesn't "get it" soon, they are going to be on the receiving end of a lot of ordinance with no loving occupation afterwords. They can sit in their rubble for all I care.

Posted by Leigh 2006-11-02 23:56|| 2006-11-02 23:56|| Front Page Top

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