A majority of likely voters - 52 percent - would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, and 53 percent believe it is likely that the U.S. will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the next presidential election, a new Zogby America telephone poll shows.
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Are we there yet?
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Ron Paul sets an ambitious $12 million fundraising goal
GOP officials in early primary states say that while they have been impressed with the intensity of Paul's supporters, they are not sure if he can expand his following, particularly among Republican primary voters generally supportive of the Iraq war.
"I know Ron Paul has an army. They believe in him and follow him. You see the people on the street corners," said Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. "But is it big enough? I don't know."
Dawson said Paul's anti-war message "is not selling in the circles that I travel in." But he added that Paul's focus on limited government "does hit a vein." He said that Paul's ability to spend more money in the state will help, adding, "Money is the mother's milk of politics."
[& He reminds us of ...]
He said they may then register a protest vote, much as they did in 1996 when conservative commentator Pat Buchanan beat former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole in the state's GOP primary. Dole got the nomination later, and lost to Bill Clinton.
Some political observers likened Paul to Howard Dean, the Democratic candidate in 2004 who also drew a devoted cyberspace following with his anti-war message but failed to attract sufficient primary voters.
But Glenn McCall, the GOP chairman in York County in South Carolina, said Paul has come across in debates as more sincere than his rivals.
Voters "feel that some of the other candidates are too polished and not true to themselves," McCall said. "Dr. Paul, they feel, is being natural. He is being himself."[...]
The Paul campaign spent about $387,000 on salaries for the first nine months of the year compared with Giuliani's campaign payroll of $4.6 million.
Something To Sell
While I don't think there's anything wrong with women expressing their femininity & sexual appeal, I see "sex" in the United States beginning to take some asininely striking resemblances to "Christmas": It's over-commercialized, under-emotionalized, and losing it's true meaning.
The Wrong Men
Britain's first Muslim minister, Shahid Malik, has said he is "deeply disappointed" that he was detained by airport security officials in America.
[...]
He said the same thing happened to him at JFK airport in New York last year.
On that occasion he had been a keynote speaker at an event organised by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), alongside the FBI and Muslim organisations, to talk about tackling extremism and defeating terrorism.
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The New Fame
She’s Famous (and So Can You) - New York Times
How, one may ask, is it possible for a personality who great hunks of the citizenry never imagined existed to build up a social network more populous than Dallas? How can Tila Tequila have become enormously famous having done little of note beyond appearing as Playboy’s Cyber Girl of the Week? When exactly in the Warholian arc of fame did we arrive at a point where we create celebrities of people so little accomplished that they make Paris Hilton look like Marie Curie?
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& the Hillary story continues...
Looks like the disappointing feedback she got, has made her change her mind.
During a campaign event in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton decided to change her position on Iran. She stated that she would negotiate with Iran without preconditions. However, three months earlier ....Her instability (well, that used to be the polite term for "opportunism", right?) makes me worried. maybe this is why I feel a lot more comfortable with Obama.
btw, thanks to Javad, for the link!
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Perfecting, Wiping off the map, etc.
So, it's not only Iran who needs to be "perfected".
Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they needed to "perfect" themselves into -- Christians.
- COULTER: No. In fact, there was an entire Seinfeld episode about Elaine and her boyfriend dating because they wanted to be a mixed-race couple, so you're lying.
- DEUTSCH: Oh, because of some Seinfeld episode? OK.
- ...
oh, & by the way, since every time something like this happens, everyone remembers what "head of Iran" said about Israel; you can check this out & decide for yourself whether if he ever said the damn line or not:
So what did Ahmadinejad actually say? To quote his exact words in Farsi:Don't get me wrong; I still don't like
"Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad."
That passage will mean nothing to most people, but one word might ring a bell: rezhim-e....'Wiped off the Map' – The Rumor of the Century - by Arash NorouziMore on Wiping of the map mistranslation:
Guardian
Guardian article feedback
Prison planet
AlbionMonitor
Information Clearing House
the man but... it's just that...it's a bummer to be "nuked" only
because some lazy guy couldn't get it right in Farsi!
UPDATE: & another article from the very newspaper which started it all;
"Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map because no such idiom exists in Persian," remarked Juan Cole, a Middle East specialist at the University of Michigan.
Kurds Vs. Blackwater
New Evidence That Blackwater Guards Took No Fire - New York Times
The three witnesses, Kurds on a rooftop overlooking the scene, said they had observed no gunfire that could have provoked the shooting by Blackwater guards. American soldiers who arrived minutes later found shell casings from guns used normally by American contractors, as well as by the American military.
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'Could I vote for this Mormon?'
From "Why Evangelicals May Turn to Romney" - TIME
The latest move came on Thursday when Mark DeMoss, a well-known publicist for a variety of religious or conservative groups and causes, sent a five-page letter to friends and colleagues explaining that he had decided to back Romney, a Mormon.
[The letter reads;] "The question shouldn't be, 'Could I vote for a Mormon?' but, 'Could I vote for this Mormon?' After all, Mitt told me there are Mormons he couldn't vote for (I presume Harry Reid, for example); and there are Southern Baptists I couldn't vote for (Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, to name a few)."[...] DeMoss's endorsement come a few weeks after a group of more than 40 social conservative leaders gathered in Salt Lake City and agreed they might bolt the Republican party if the G.O.P. handed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Republican nomination.
[...] The problem, however, continues to be a lack of consensus about Plan B.
How to deal with George Bush...as your father
From "10 Questions for Jenna Bush" - TIME
- Your father has borne a lot of criticism as President. How does your family deal with all that is said about him?
- We don't watch too much television...
[Also;]
- If the war in Iraq is so noble, why aren't you and your sister serving our country there?
- Read the Answer here.
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Hillary's Choices
Bomb, Bomb Iran - New York Times
A Democrat, Randall Rolph, asked Senator Clinton why he should back her when she did not learn her lesson after voting to authorize W. to use force in Iraq. He did not understand how she could have voted yea to urge W. to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, possibly setting the stage for more Cheney chicanery.
[On the document;]
In the original “sense of Senate on Iran” document, sponsored by Joe Lieberman and the Republican Jon Kyl last month, there was a paragraph that supported “the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence and military instruments, in support of the policy with respect to” Iran. That original draft, called “tantamount to a declaration of war” and “Dick Cheney’s fondest pipe dream” by Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, was softened.
[On the feedback she got;]
Obama chided Hillary for her willingness “to once again extend to the president the benefit of the doubt.” John Edwards wondered if in “six months from now he goes to war in Iran, are we going to hear her once again say if only I had known then what I know now?”
[On why she's doing this;]
When Hillary voted to let W. use force in Iraq, she didn’t even read the intelligence estimate. She wasn’t trying to do the right thing. She was trying to do the opportunistic thing. She felt she could not run for president, as a woman, if she played the peacenik.
By throwing in with Joe Lieberman and the conservative hawks on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard issue, she once more overcompensated in a cynical way. She’d like to paint Obama as the weak reed who wants to cozy up to dictators, while she’s the one who will play tough. It was odd, given her success in the debates conveying the sense that she is the manliest candidate among the Democrats, that she felt the need to man-up on Iran.
UPDATE: Clinton's Vote on Iranian Army Unit Draws Fire - NPR
"Why don't we just open up the constitution & read it!" says Ron Paul.
1:45 On Iran's nuclear threat;
YouTube - Ron Paul @ CNBC Repub. Debate JOINED 10-9-07
loved this part too;
"if there's an attack on us...well, we haven't had that in 220 years!"
loved this part too;
"if there's an attack on us...well, we haven't had that in 220 years!"
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Where does the US stand?
iTulip.com - Real DJIA 1924 to 2006
According to data on the current account balance provided by NationMaster.com, of 162 nations ranked, China is running the largest trade surplus in the world at $197 billion per year. Out of the remaining nations, the United States ranks 162nd–in last place–with a current account deficit of $862 billion per year, the largest deficit in the world.
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Sy Hersh on Iran
This is the article:
Annals of National Security: The Iran Plans: The New Yorker
Crooks and Liars
Oops...the above article was the old 2006 one; this is the new one;A
government consultant with close ties to the civilian leadership in the
Pentagon said that Bush [...] believes
that he must do “what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the
future, would have the courage to do,” and “that saving Iran is going
to be his legacy.”
Annals of National Security: Shifting Targets: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker& This is the Video:
Crooks and Liars
Hersh claims his sources are telling him that Bush is not only changing targets in Iran, but also the reasons for attacking. Hersh also asserts the intelligence community is very concerned about the threat of asymmetrical warfare in the aftermath of any sort of strategic strike within Iran, and that the Bush administration has been made aware of those concerns.
Warming Up
Crooks and Liars » Coulter on Giuliani: ” He’s crazy enough to Nuke Iran”
[Ann] Coulter [on NBC's the Today Show]: ….and also he seems sort of crazy enough that he’d nuke Iran and that warms our hearts and at this point its been years since an ex-wife has appeared on Vagina Monologues.
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