News bits you could miss & might never hear of again
Yesterday a "blue Ribbon Committee" was marched across a set on MSNBC. There was Jim Baker, (maybe) Schwartzkoph and two other old R. loyalists to investigate & produce some plan to get out of Iraq. No one said who appointed them or gave them their mission. Or who they would report to. I never saw it repeated or followed up in anyway. Did anyone else see this? Did anyone else hear on NPR All Things Considered that an Iranian envoy was coming to the WhiteHouse soon to see the president but nuclear issues would not be discussed. (!!) This was just a one or two line filler between stories. Who is the envoy? What's on the agenda? How long has it been since an Iranian visited the White House? Maybe these stories just sail off like balloons or my schedule is too hectic to catch any follow-up. Anyone else hear these stories?
This may shed some light on
This may shed some light on the Iran "talks" for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/international/middleeast/16cnd-iran.ht...
Thank you Bill for my
Thank you Bill for my morning chuckle.
Too funny! We make statements to Iran via the media by Cheney's "meanful consequences" speech and Iranian President answers back with "hurt and pain." We say we are going to the UN (even though I didn't think we were going to ask permission to protect US) to impose sanctions to make them stop nuclear research and Iran threatens to shut down the Straits of Hormuz stopping shipments of ALL Persian Gulf oil.
Maybe America will see that Bush should have increased MPG on cars instead of making us more "addicted to oil." Why is the administration negotating with "terrorists"? They must be in some REAL trouble and working hard to get those poll number up.
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security
like it's some kind of federal program."
- George W. Bush in a debate in St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
Iran
Submarine USS Wahoo ss238
The single biggest National Security challenge facing this
Country is GW Bush and Dick Cheney.
This is how the illegal invasion of Iraq started
"WMD" "They are a threat"
"They have missiles that can hit the US within 45minutes"
"Mushroom cloud" "Saddam is bad, he killed his own people"
We have heard all of this crap before......Iraq has not taught
them anything....just more failure.
Great One Liner
>Why is the administration negotating with "terrorists"?
ROFL! It bore repeating...
mostly cleared up
24hrs later I get the Iran story. Interesting that a senior Iraqi Shiite politician called for Iran-US talks. But that Blue Ribbon thing? James Baker looking very dour... Then Operation Somethingorother in Iraq all day. Well, I'm not trying to make sense of it. Thanks for your help.