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Topic: Iran and Uraniaum
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BCseawalker
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Babbler # 8468
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posted 12 April 2006 08:03 PM
Well the Iranian situation certainly hasn't been discouraged by the Bushies. quote: Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Democracy Be Damned - Republicans Need Another War by Thom Hartmann George W. Bush is at it again. This time, reports Sy Hersh in The New Yorker, it'll be Iran. (Those of us who guessed it would have been Syria first apparently underestimated his hubris.) And this time he wants to be able to use nukes.In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the way a seemingly democratic president kept his nation in a continual state of repression was by keeping the nation in a constant state of war. Cynics suggest the lesson wasn’t lost on Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon, who both, they say, extended the Vietnam war so it coincidentally ran over election cycles, knowing that a wartime President’s party is more likely to be reelected and has more power than a President in peacetime. This wasn’t a new lesson, however, and Orwell was not the first to note that a democracy at war was weakened and at risk...
Scary, scary stuff. But given dubya, predictable.
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