The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[wendybeth]

Wow-' boom, baby' is right. Great letter, and one I think should be printed in every newspaper in this country.

[blueerica]

I actually have a political rant to go on... But I have to go to work. I'll spend those hours serving coffee and becoming bitter.

BBL

[Scrooge McSam]

Open letter to Patrick Guerriero:

President Bush is not listening to you. He never has. He never will.

I'm supposed to care that you're outraged? Why, pray tell?

Tell me, when did you figure out that Mr. Bush would throw you under a bus if there's political gain to be had? Most everyone else with at last 2 functioning brain cells figured that out THE LAST FREAKING TIME IT HAPPENED.

Straighten your "support the troops" sticker, keep waving your flag and continue to pretend you matter.

[Gemini Cricket]

Acid-spitting Ann is at it again:

" These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted like as if the terrorist attack only happened to them. They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing bush was part of the closure process."

And this part is the part I really need to talk to you about:

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by griefparrazies. I have never seen people enjoying their husband’s death so much."

Source

This is from her book. Oy vey! What a nutcase. If this was someone on the left, this person would be labelled as an unpatriotic liberal. But since this is Ann, it's okay.

[scaeagles]

Apparently, or so I've read today, the Bush adminstration is getting ready to give Iran nuke power tech if they will stop enriching uranium on their own.

I thought it was dumb and criminal (though legal) when the Clinton administration did the same with North Korea. Yet the North Koreans now have nukes.

Why on earth does Bush think that giving Iranians nuke power tech will stop them from pursuing nuke weapons? Why does anyone think a ruthless dictator will do what he says?

I wish to vomit.

[Alex]

Why do we feel we have the a authority to dictate what scientific, technological, and warmongering advances another sovereign nation should be allowed to make?

[scaeagles]

I would suppose it is because of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. While I am no expert on the treaty itself, I do believe that there are restrictions within that treaty that the Iranians are violating with respect to their nuclear advancements and inspections by the IAEA.

Does your post mean, Alex, that you oppose things such as economic sanctions to apply pressure to a sovereign state to abide by certain guidelines that they have agreed to? If a sovereign state violates a treaty such as the nuclear non-pro treaty, should we or the rest of the world stand idly by?

[Nephythys]

yeah- let's stand by and let a country that has vowed to exterminate another country build nukes...

Squeeeeee- what fun

[wendybeth]

If Iran is violating a treaty, then they should be dealt with accordingly. However, if a nation that has not signed such a treaty should wish to pursue such a program. I don't see where we have the right to intervene. We just need to be ready to kick their asses should they decide to use them in any way that threatens us or countries we have agreed to helped defend.

[scaeagles]

So does this mean if Iran nukes Isreal you support us nuking Iran? Because I fear that is a real, real possiblity.