The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Ghoulish Delight]

On the subject of misleading headlines...

This will only last a short while until MSNBC updates their front page, but check out the top story, about Iran's nuclear announcement. www.msnbc.com

Notice that the bullet point says, "Iran to 'join the club of countries' with nukes, leader say", implying quite blatantly that Iran has admitted to developing nuclear weapons. In reality, of course, the president said they are NOT planning the enriched uranium for "nukes". Now, I'm not saying that that's proof that they aren't, but that's not what he said. Someone felt the need to spin that story lead.

[Alex]

It now reads "Iran: Joining nuclear 'club' soon"

[wendybeth]

In other news, karma is biting someone's backside: Katherine Harriss on the outs with GOP.

Heh heh....might we expect an embittered tell-all book soon?

[Drince88]

Random Political Thought:
WHEN will this election be over? (And election day isn't until 4/22! - and there's just about a lock that there will be a run-off for New Orleans Mayor - only 23 candidates - there is no way one person is going to get 50%+1 of the vote!)

[JWBear]

Bush's supporters can play all the linguistic games they want. It doesn't change the fact that the White House made the identity of a covert CIA operative public in order to punish her husband for telling the truth.

If a Democratic administration had done the same thing, Republicans would be up in arms. But since it was a Republican administration, all we get are justifications and word games.

[Gemini Cricket]

If we attack Iran next, will there be a draft?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

If we attack Iran next, will there be a draft?

Interesting question. I don't see an invasion, frankly. I see surgical strikes with lots of support from our allies, though not the UN, Russia, or China.

Perhaps special forces will end up in the country covertly assisting with those strikes.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Interesting question. I don't see an invasion, frankly. I see surgical strikes with lots of support from our allies, though not the UN, Russia, or China.

Hmm, isn't that what Iraq was supposed to be?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Hmm, isn't that what Iraq was supposed to be?

Ummm....no.....the goal was to oust Saddam. Here the goal is to stop development of a nuclear program.

GC - I would not be surprised at all if there are currently US special forces inside Iran doing such things. I would suspect high tech classified surveillance planes and drones are also operating with regularity.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Ummm....no.....the goal was to oust Saddam. Here the goal is to stop development of a nuclear program.

Yes, but they planned it as a quick in-n-out with minimal troops, and heavy reliance on surgical air strikes. The absolute worst thing that could happen is to repeat the same mistake of arrogantly assuming we're just going to breeze in and get the job done sans-complication and have zero backup plan for if and when things go wrong.