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America, The Underdog...........
mARKo
7:57:04 PM
3/01/07

theo-what? LMAO

That sounds like something that escaped from the priest pedophile thread.
Tilt
7:58:37 PM
3/01/07

IT'S easy to down grade.....but when you dont have answers?
cold
8:42:55 PM
3/01/07

mARKo, you may have a problem with me?I JUST look for good in the wolrd.

Anyone that has to CAP name DIFF....IMHO...is looking for?
cold
9:10:51 PM
3/01/07


Sounds like cassus belli to me.
Mutt
8:12:03 AM
3/23/07

I BURNED MINE!
Yep, torched that baby back in '71.....
SuperTroll
8:29:15 AM
3/23/07

Stomp Stover? Great, another troll
treebait
8:38:07 AM
3/23/07

Um you know the Draft ended back in the seventies right?

AS for that...WELL libbies thank JIMUH for his so French Response to their actions in the 1970's

I always wonder what would have happened if we had woken up the monday morning after the hostage taking and found Teheran was missing from the world map. How many Americans would be alive today?
XL400236
8:53:08 AM
3/23/07

Ya think a name reversal will do any good to thinking parts?
salebored
9:30:45 AM
3/23/07

XL, the same could be said about DC.
salebored
10:15:43 AM
3/23/07

Sale its a wierd conundrum you figure if NY, DC, Chicago, Boston, LA and SF all went BOOMO....what would that do for reducing the Free Money rolls?
XL400236
2:54:09 PM
3/23/07

Why is the United Nations silent on the abduction of British citizens by Iran?
bacpac
4:09:12 AM
3/28/07

Because the West is evil and we're all sure the Brits have it coming to them.
Nigal
5:32:57 AM
3/28/07

Can you say, "Gulf of Tonkin?"
bacpac
6:00:15 AM
3/28/07

Maybe Britain should snatch a few hundred Iranians from their populous and start pushing ten and hour from a helicopter until the sailors are returned?
Nigal
6:01:35 AM
3/28/07

Send Jesse Jackson to negotiate their release.
bacpac
6:10:03 AM
3/28/07

Are you saying this a hoax like the Gulf Of Tonkin "Incident"?
MarkO
7:46:49 AM
3/28/07

LOL...DATELINE NEW YORK 1943

THE EVIL United States and their vassal states have so far invaded the peaceful nations of North Africa and Sicily. Today it was reported landings have begun on Italian shores. Lets remember the Italians never attacked the US its shipping or pert near anyone. How long with this evil horror continue.
XL400236
7:52:36 AM
3/28/07

Iran's president WANTS confrontation
I'ma-Damn-Jihadi thinks that conflict will hasten the return of the 12th Mahdi......

While the general population as a whole fears conflict, the president WANTS this confrontation, and I would venture to say that proclaiming HIMSELF to be the 12th Mahdi is quite possible.
SuperTroll
7:54:58 AM
3/28/07

Let's just keep the tempest in the teapot.

Oh yeah, Iran is going to ressurect the Persian Empire.

Look out Mesopotamia!
MarkO
8:02:57 AM
3/28/07

Nope....
What Iran wants is quite different from what I'ma-Damn-Jihadi wants......
SuperTroll
8:10:56 AM
3/28/07

Yeah, that freak wants conflict.

Let's not appease him by giving him conflict.
These nuts thrive on the blood of "martyrs".

If Iranians are lucky they can un-elect him before things get too crazy.
MarkO
8:30:31 AM
3/28/07

Marky mark through history
LOL Marky Mark CIRCA 1936 "So the Germans retake the Sudetenland, its not like they are going to try and take over the world."


Marky Mark (Little Big Horn)"Lets go General they are just Injuns ...come on Take No Prisoners."
XL400236
8:59:41 AM
3/28/07

StoveStomper
9:35:04 AM
3/28/07

Bush certainly gave Bin Laden what he wanted in Iraq.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
Tilt
9:45:53 AM
3/28/07

LOL..the libbies hate it when you use FACTS.
XL400236
9:46:22 AM
3/28/07

bin Laden got far less than what he wanted, scumbag. Do you see revolutions and an islamic empire? Hell no, dumbass.
Mutt
9:47:48 AM
3/28/07

Don't worry X, Ah-Muh-Jihadi-Dud hasn't got much chance to get his grimey little paws on The Sudetenland.

Your Fodderland is safe...................for now.
Hoohoohahahahahahahahahaha!
MarkO
9:49:58 AM
3/28/07

NEWSFLASH: Tom and Jerry are a Jewish conspiracy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40VFcJTIduw
Nigal
3:42:28 PM
4/05/07

That is exactly what I thought as I watched the cartoon as a child.
Wounded Knee
3:47:47 PM
4/05/07

Well, that helps put this in context (amazing read btw - the two volumes show the real potential of comic/graphic books):



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
last edited: 4/05/07 4:14:52 PM
pedxing
4:13:24 PM
4/05/07

Have you read it? Sounds interesting.
Nigal
4:21:29 PM
4/05/07

I think the british should drop a tactical nuclear weapon on the next f-ing Iranian patrol boat to poke its head out of a f-ing Iranian port.

Then they should wipe out an entire Iranian naval facility.

Firebomb it. Nothing left but ash.


Thereafter any ANY Iranian patrol boat poking its F-ing nose outside iranian terrotorial waters (as defined by US) without prior permission shoudl be sunk. Period.

if there are survivors they should be retrieved and treated according to the Geneva convention . . .heck . .just return them .. .we don't want them.

Zero tolerance for any any incursion by Iran.

period.


Happy Easter.
lee
4:22:33 PM
4/05/07

I read Maus back in Highschool. Amazing work.
bearmagnet
4:23:32 PM
4/05/07

Lee's a regular ol' firecracker today! LOL!
Nigal
4:25:13 PM
4/05/07

‘Act of madness’ gains allies in complacent media


Gene Lyons

During the Cold War, Moscow had two major newspapers. Propaganda-wary Russians joked bitterly that “There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and no Izvestia in Pravda” (“ There is no Truth in News, and no News in Truth. ” ) People didn’t so much read the press as attempt to decode it: Who wants me to believe what and why ? We’re not there yet, but we’re definitely headed that way. Even so, when The New York Times and The Washington Post feature same-day, front-page stories stressing the White House’s unhappiness with Iran, it’s definitely no coincidence. Like the proverbial turtle on a fence post, somebody put them there. Ah, but who ? The Times cites anonymous “senior administration officials” on both sides of a passionate debate between factions loyal to radical cleric—um, make that Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Needless to say, Cheney’s keen to bomb the Persians back at least to the Savafid Dynasty (1502-1736 ), while “friends and associates” say Condi is “increasingly moved toward the European position,” i. e., the sane one, although there’s no graver insult in the neo-conservative lexicon.

Actually, a less inflammatory comparison might be the film “Groundhog Day,” because we’ve all seen this movie before—during the run-up to invading Iraq, with Cheney beating war drums, Rice prating about “mushroom clouds” over American cities and Secretary of State Colin Powell cast as the cautious voice of moderation. We all recall how that ended, with Powell’s lamentable speech to the U. N. touting Saddam Hussein’s apocryphal weapons of mass destruction.

This time, the Decider himself, George W. Bush, is described as having until “next spring... to decide whether to take military action.” At the expense of being hopelessly old-fashioned, exactly where in the U. S. Constitution does it say the president can unilaterally declare war ? Does anybody believe this Congress will allow Bush to bequeath to his successor yet another misbegotten crusade against a Middle Eastern country three times larger than neighboring Iraq ? And with what army, pray tell ?

The Post’s contribution consisted of an astonishingly self-contradictory piece about the Iranian regime’s “sweeping crackdown” on domestic dissent. On one hand, “both Iranians and U. S. analysts” liken conditions in Iran to “a cultural revolution” aimed at steering “the oilrich theocracy back to the rigid strictures of the 1979 revolution.”

The failure of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s economic policies, we’re told, has necessitated stifling academics in particular after students at a Tehran university booed him. So how bad is Iran’s economy ? In the very next sentence, reporter Robin Wright informs us that “[m ] ore than 50 of the country’s leading economists wrote an open letter to Ahmadinejad this week warning that he is ignoring basic economics and endangering the country’s future.”

So which is it, police state or open dissent ? Editors are least apt to notice contradictions like that when they’re taking dictation.

Writing from Cairo, Time magazine’s Scott MacLeod supplies some needed perspective: As even a royalist exile group headed by Reza Pahlavi, son of the deposed shah, has warned, the Bush administration’s announcement of a $ 100 million plan to fund Iranian dissenters could only backfire.

Leery of U. S. interference ever since the 1953 CIA-sponsored coup that installed the dictatorial shah, Iran’s hardliners see dissenters taking U. S. cash as potential traitors. Tehran has its own equivalents of the Dixie Chicks, but the stakes are far higher. “Anyone having the slightest knowledge of the domestic political situation in Iran would never have created this program,” one reformer told Time.

Meanwhile, with U. S. armies occupying Iraq and Afghanistan (Iran’s neighbors to the east and west ), two U. S. carrier groups deployed in the Persian Gulf, hostile Pakistan and Israel bristling with nuclear weapons and U. S. Sens. John Mc-Cain and Holy Joe Lieberman calling for pre-emptive bombing attacks against the Tehran regime, it’s supposed to be we Americans who go to bed at night fearing mighty Persia.

To ponder this hallucinatory mindset in all its fullness, I recommend neo-conservative elder statesman Norman Podhoretz’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed “The Case for Bombing Iran.” Seemingly unaware that Iran’s constitution gives Ahmadinejad no authority whatsoever over its armed forces, Podhoretz portrays him as the new Adolf Hitler, a demented madman poised to obliterate Israel and convert Europe to “the religio-political culture of Islamofascism” through nuclear blackmail, leading to his stated goal of “a world without America.” Gee, I wonder how you say Blitzkrieg in Persian. To date, Bush administration attempts to drum up a casus belli against Iran have fallen flat. No sooner do U. S. spokesmen claim that Iran is arming its hereditary enemy, the Taliban, than Afghan officials call it nonsense. Similar allegations have been dismissed by Iraq’s government. International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei describes attacking Iran as “an act of madness.” Indeed so. Bombing Iran now would be like taking a shotgun to a hornet’s nest, doing a whole lot of random killing without eliminating the problem and infuriating the survivors.

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/193516/
violin
6:25:56 AM
6/22/07

uh-oh.  Radical Clerics Again.... like Pat Robertson?  These days if they're clerics, they gotta be radical... and if they're radical, chances are that they're clerics.

Wow -- I didn't know there were still some Pahlavis out there we could reinstall (incredibly bad déjà vu).... but it sounds like they're not thrilled by the prospect either.  Suddenly I wonder how many grandchildren Reza has.

Long term, it will be interesting to see how Israel responds to the progress of Tehran's refining process.
Tilt
7:14:07 AM
6/22/07

Hey wait a minute, I thought we were supposed to go to bed at night fearing mighty North Korea too.

Come on people, let's whip up some fear here!!

.....and kick the defense industry into high gear.........oh, it already is.

Man, this war's a go-go!!
mARKo
7:30:52 AM
6/22/07

Blackstone, blackwater, sub-prime, Amnesty, Markogate, Gazastripped, Pat Robertson and all the TTTurmoil beginning to boil, because of the lack of adequate foil to build the hats for full protection of all you cats.
uncliff
9:29:02 AM
6/22/07

Don't forget the running dogs and the lackeys, too!
mARKo
9:41:11 AM
6/22/07

V, T, M and U.....
you guys noticed you're all alone in here?...

might kinda be tellin' you sumthin there....
SuperTroll
9:54:17 AM
6/22/07

Uh..............we're all queer?
mARKo
9:57:55 AM
6/22/07

Better oil the hinges on that closet door,
The friends of the Bush can't take any more.
uncliff
10:07:37 AM
6/22/07

Oddball!!

>8^b
mARKo
11:23:40 AM
6/22/07


last edited: 7/26/07 8:49:40 AM
pedxing
8:48:40 AM
7/26/07

Talk about Black Humor ---
Tilt
9:16:53 AM
7/26/07

They're working on it.
MarkO
9:17:29 AM
7/26/07

Wish I held the copyright on the' Al Qaeda brand name'. Big, big business.
uncliff
10:27:15 AM
7/26/07

Did Ahmadinejad forget the date Friday or something or is this another claim of Allah's favor that didn't pan out?

"Supporters of the Zionist regime will receive their response during the world Quds Day’s rallies, government spokesman, Gholam-Hossein Elham, said Wednesday.

The spokesman made the remarks during his weekly press conference while commenting on the current visit to the occupied Palestine of the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Quds Day is held each year on the last Friday of Muslims fasting month of Ramadan after it was nominated by the late Founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, as a day to voice the protest of the Islamic Ummah against the Zionists.

The day falls on October 12 this year.

“The US loses all opportunities to cooperate with regional and other world states by trying to support a regime (the Zionist regime) which is now at its weakest political and social position,” Elham said.

He warned that Washington’s insistence on its wrong policies and arrogant approaches would have no result “but further political disgrace” for itself. Referring to the approaching World Quds Day, the spokesman stressed, “Supporters of the Zionist regime will definitely receive the final response for their support on that day.”

Source http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0709199796134418.htm
Nigal
2:31:46 AM
10/15/07

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