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n very clever about does this sound like something we ve seen before maybe like what this very same administration was doing to justify the mess we now find ourselves entangled in in iraq i m not a big conspiracy freak but this has all the markings of the administration pandering to israel and its followers here in the u s israel has been embarrassed by its venture into lebanon and made to feel vulnerable the image conveyed of late from the talk pundits and the media in general is that some odd few thousand hezbollah guerrillas have beaten israel the regional superpower this is ridiculous hezbollah suffered far more than israel did and the lebanese themselves have suffered far worse than anyone this wasn t a classic war which not a single country in the region could hope to win with israel but a guerrilla action that has lines for victory and defeat that are far more ambiguous than when powers of equal standing or assumed equal standing when one considers the arab and iranian militaries in the region go to war in an army to army battle no one in the region can expect to defeat israel but when it comes to a guerrilla action such as israel in lebanon and the u s in iraq or vietnam for that matter a classic military such as israel s or that of the united states is at a disadvantage especially when the guerrillas in question embrace the opportunity to die the vietnamese never were so willing to get themselves killed israel s problem was making claims regarding victory it should have known were nearly impossible to achieve going into this with an army ill prepared for the mission this is very disturbing if the reports coming out of late regarding this are true with troops ill trained ill equipped and otherwise simply not up to the task and an over reliance on air power to get the job done something that technologically advanced countries like israel and the u s should know better than to do but it seems we have to re learn this lesson time and time again so israel s embarrassed possibly feeling threatened and the administration feels this is an opportunity to rally around getting iran which ostensibly is behind hezbollah s activities in lebanon to show support for israel of course there s no evidence to support that iran is pulling hezbollah s strings see cited times article above yes iran supplies hezbollah and that s enough of a concern but that s not the same as being able to tell hezbollah what to do which is a different matter altogether but if we can make the case that iran s a threat to the u s mind you it s the u s that s threatened per the administration not israel we can then take care of that threat just like we did in iraq right interestingly enough and something i wrote about back in july regarding an article by seymour hersh see u s military one up one down the only u s military service that seems to be biting at the bit to go into iran is the u s air force what a surprise all of the ground services see the problem with iran and know that there s no way to go in there while in iraq and even minus complications from iraq it d be an extraordinarily difficult mission and the navy s not interested in bottling up its aircraft carriers in the persian gulf to make fat targets of them for the high speed bomb laden iranian revolutionary guard boats but if we did go in we ll surely be supporting the israelis right just like we were supporting democracy when we invaded iraq iran is not a threat to the u s never has been likely never will be it surely will often be a pain to u s policy makers who often won t agree with the leaders of that country but it ll never be a direct threat for as much bellicosity rained on israel by ahmadinejad the iranian president there s little direct threat to israel from iran either indirectly iran is a troublemaker for israel as iran does support hezbollah and hamas two organizations whose prime reason for existence is to be a thorn in the side of israel but even with a nuclear weapon iran isn t a threat israel has many nuclear weapons and the means by which to deliver them now iran doesn t israel won t hesitate to wipe iran off the face of the middle east were it to believe that it was responsible for a nuclear attack on israel and it s unlikely that anyone in a position of influence in tehran isn t very well aware of this the administration shouldn t be goading the intelligence community to produce intelligence data that supports its ideological contentions beliefs you d think they d have learned that after the iraq debacle but apparently not moreover there s no possible excuse anyone can comeup with that justifies military action in iran as the fact remains that if the iranians want nuclear weapons they ll eventually get them and trying to stop them especially with military force will simply give them reasons for getting them that much more quickly and threatening the world with using them we must be sure to prevent a repeat of what we ve already managed to thoroughly foul up in iraq though with iran the costs would be vastly higher and the end results would be even less desirable than what we re now getting in iraq this administration has managed to befoul one part of the middle east already we must not stand by and watch as it rationalizes going about trying to do it again posted by james at 3 58 pm 2 comments tuesday august 15 2006 incredible taken from the new york times while i ll admit that this is an odd assortment of countries it s likely this way so that the u s isn t solely compared to its fellow first world countries like japan and those of the european union having the fewest percentage of people who believe that they evolved from earlier species in that crowd doesn t quite frame where we in the u s stand but throw in malta slovenia latvia croatia to name but a few it s another matter all together i suppose there s some comfort to be taken from the fact that we beat out the anchor country turkey by a healthy margin though it s hardly something to crow about how is it that in the country that s considered the most technologically advanced and dependent for its riches on science we have so few people who fundamentally understand how biology works maybe it s not a matter of simply not understanding but more a matter of choosing not to understand which is even scarier when you think about it whatever it might be it is embarrassing and causes me no end to wonder as to where this country is going to go when so many are so ignorant so unwilling to accept what their religion tells them differently or just think of themselves as so plain special that the rules of biology just don t apply to them i m afraid that there are likely more in the latter category than one would like to think posted by james at 8 41 pm 1 comments friday august 11 2006 letter regarding mistreatment of iranian visitors ok i got a bit hot under the collar on this one but the whole thing is chock full of the sort of stuff that should make any right thinking person hot and pissed off this is regarding the abuse of iranian visitors who were issued visas by our consulates overseas and then detained arrested at their airport of entry here in the states this mess was laid our pretty clearly in an article at iranian com specifically iranians detained at san francisco airport 2006 after reading this i was compelled to write a letter that today i sent to both senate representatives for my state my congressman and to the president for good measure not that i expect anything to come of this but i felt it was important to have at least expressed my outrage very directly to the powers that be to go full circle with this i m sharing the letter here too august 11 2006 enclosed you ll find a copy of a 9 august 2006 article which ran in iranian com a web site established to provide information to the iranian community throughout the world please bear in mind that the person who has written the email highlighted in this article was one of the victims of the incident described and is writing with english as her second language a fact that in no way should reduce the impact of what she was subjected to nor put in question how in this case we treated invited foreigners to this country i wanted to bring this incident to your attention inasmuch as it received little publicity here that i m aware of it doesn t seem that anyone feels that there s a need to explain why these people were treated this way and frankly i am still incredulous that an incident such as this could occur in my country i m a retired naval officer with 22 years of service to this nation and this is not how i expect the u s to represent itself to people who are invited into its borders moreover i m married to an iranian scientist currently involved in research here in providence at brown university and i have many personal friends who are graduates of sharif university of technology who are also in the u s doing graduate and post doctoral work in some of the more prestigious educational institutions in this country i am flabbergasted that our country would have issued visas to iranian graduates of sharif university an institution internationally referred to and respected as the mit of iran only to arrest them upon their arrival here in the united states what sort of policy allows for this what sort of disconnect in how we treat foreign visitors to this country would allow for such inhospitable disrespectful and flat out rude behavior on the part of this country the bush administration professes to want to influence change in iran and i d very much like to know how the manhandling and mistreating of citizens of iran much less those representing the upper tier of the country manages to foster any measure of good will between those most likely to be the actual agents of change in iran and the u s government i respectfully request that you look into this matter we cannot hope to expect to positively influence anyone from any country if our policies are going to lead to the sort of incident described in the enclosure to this letter if we don t want specific iranians in this country for whatever reason and lord knows our consulates deny them visas all the time for reasons that are rarely ever made clear to them we shouldn t be providing them visas and then arresting them and treating them like criminals when they arrive here i am besides myself with trying to make sense of the lunacy that would justify what was done in this situation to people who now are soured on this country and who have many friends relatives and acquaintances who ll also take a decidedly negative view regarding the u s bottom line i don t want my family my friends or the many iranians who have traditionally maintained a positive perspective regarding this country subjected to this sort of treatment i expect that you would feel the same way and ask that you help in preventing this sort of thing from happening in the future posted by james at 11 13 pm 1 comments thursday august 10 2006 death destruction good oral sex bad remember that well gee why not it makes about as much sense as anything else he s done there i ve just finished reading thomas ricks new book fiasco the american military adventure in iraq now this book on top of cobra ii the inside story of the invasion and occupation of iraq by michael gordon and bernard trainor and night draws near iraq s people in the shadow of america s war by anthony shadid leaves me stunned on the one hand and angry on the other these books have left me wondering how in the world congress took a sitting u s president through an impeachment for lying about an act of fellatio in the oval office yet doesn t seem to have so much as its feathers ruffled about the ineptitude arrogance hubris and fundamental lack of honesty that emanates out of this administration and it s principal players let me be more specific regarding who the principal players are when we re talking about this specific issue i e the current iraq war rumsfeld wolfowitz who is now the president of the world bank a mcnamarian attempt to expunge himself of his sins from his last job as the man main under rumsfeld and he couldn t be world bank president nearly long enough to make that happen gen tommy franks paul bremer and maybe george tenet who i feel sorry for on some level but then again his pain comes no where near what the military in the field is going through what the iraqi people have had to bear now and into the future or what the american people are having lifted out of their wallets daily so my feel sorry quotient for the guy who played no small part in our getting into iraq isn t high at all as of today there are over 2 500 american dead and over 19 000 wounded for the most recent numbers i recommend iraq coalition casualties i m guessing that this site iraq body count is essentially bonafide as it looks well referenced and the major complaint seems to be that they under report iraqi casualties but let s give it the benefit of the doubt and assume that the 40 000 iraqi deaths is a reasonable estimate so we have a large number of american dead and the number is increasing pretty much weekly and a huge number of wounded americans and if we take the extraordinary number of iraqi dead and multiply that by say 4 americans due to on site emergency critical care and rapid medevac to state of the art medical facilities are much more likely to survive injury than iraqis we have somewhere in the neighborhood of 160 000 iraqi wounded and why first it was because sadaam had weapons of mass destruction and was supporting terrorists no actually he wasn t and the intelligence was there to support that neither was true but that didn t support what the administration wanted to do so it wasn t paid attention to then our focus became helping democracy take root in the region it s doubtful that the american people would have bought into this were that the prime motive to begin with of course our excursion into iraq was executed with little to no appreciation for the fact that some regions of the world are resistant to democracy when ethnic tribal and religious affiliations take precedence to any consideration of the rules for or implementation of democracy an institution which of course would limit ethnic tribal or religious prerogatives whatever the reason and how fallacious they were the fact was that we went into the country with no plan to take the necessary steps to secure it and afford it the chance to get on an even keel there was no plan to occupy the country in spite of the fact that we just conquered it neocon fools like wolfowitz proclaimed that the iraqis would take over after we did the fighting and won the war he appeared to have in mind his buddy chalabi and the restoration of the country would pay for itself so who needed a plan for occupation restoration or anything else past winning the war now rumsfeld bought into this ridiculous self delusion and in the spirit of his much vaunted mi...