Qdrop
04-11-2006, 11:34 AM
Believe it this time, buster
• April 11, 2006 | 11:56 AM ET | Permalink
My friend Fred Kaplan can’t bring himself to believe that the Cheney administration is, pick your adjective (sufficiently crazy, irresponsible, evil, uncaring about human life, happy to encourage terrorism against the United States, whatever) to launch a pre-emptive nuclear war against Iran. He writes:
Or maybe there's no gamesmanship going on here, maybe Hirsh [which is here by the way] is simply reporting on a nuclear war plan that President Bush is really, seriously considering, a "juggernaut" that might not be stopped. If it's as straightforward as that, we're in deeper trouble than most of us have imagined.
I recall that Fred has publicly acknowledged his inability to judge the awfulness of this administration in deciding whether to support war in Iraq. Isn’t it about time we all stopped underestimating these people? Bush called it “wild speculation.” What was it called when anyone speculated that Cheney, much less Bush might be behind the anti-Plame leak, here?
And I was talking to a former Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East (under a Republican administration) last night at a cocktail party and his position on Hirsh was, “Who the hell knows with these people?” It could be a bluff, as it would be with any sensible, remotely responsible administration, but then again, if they want to inspire countless terrorist attacks against the United States and kill all these people, a little thing like reality is not going to stop them. (I paraphrase.)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/
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we seriously have no idea what the fuck the Bush Cult is gonna do with Iran.
• April 11, 2006 | 11:56 AM ET | Permalink
My friend Fred Kaplan can’t bring himself to believe that the Cheney administration is, pick your adjective (sufficiently crazy, irresponsible, evil, uncaring about human life, happy to encourage terrorism against the United States, whatever) to launch a pre-emptive nuclear war against Iran. He writes:
Or maybe there's no gamesmanship going on here, maybe Hirsh [which is here by the way] is simply reporting on a nuclear war plan that President Bush is really, seriously considering, a "juggernaut" that might not be stopped. If it's as straightforward as that, we're in deeper trouble than most of us have imagined.
I recall that Fred has publicly acknowledged his inability to judge the awfulness of this administration in deciding whether to support war in Iraq. Isn’t it about time we all stopped underestimating these people? Bush called it “wild speculation.” What was it called when anyone speculated that Cheney, much less Bush might be behind the anti-Plame leak, here?
And I was talking to a former Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East (under a Republican administration) last night at a cocktail party and his position on Hirsh was, “Who the hell knows with these people?” It could be a bluff, as it would be with any sensible, remotely responsible administration, but then again, if they want to inspire countless terrorist attacks against the United States and kill all these people, a little thing like reality is not going to stop them. (I paraphrase.)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/
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we seriously have no idea what the fuck the Bush Cult is gonna do with Iran.