i had a friend once who had a crack problem. i would ask him whether he had, say, been smoking at this particular time. which would, for him, imply that the question also included specifications about place. so he would use the implication of place to deny the time and action. even though he had in fact been smoking and so. just not in the place he imagined i had in mind.
by the time things reached this impasse, that he had been doing it was evident every time because the longer pattern of smoking and phases of being wasted were obvious.
so here: the pattern of actions and statements by the administration on iran has been obvious to anyone. it requires the same kind of crackhead narrowing of focus to make anything like a plausible argument that this legislation is not part of the administrations move toward a space in which it would make sense (with all the qualifications that have to accompny the idea of things making sense in bushworld) to move into military action. the fact that the legislation does not use phrases directly tied to military action does not mean it is not of the same pattern.
i have said before in another thread about possible american military action against iran that it would make iraq look like a weekend spent under mudpacks in an expensive health spa. and so it will.
the idea that the israelis are going to do anything militarily against iran is delusional.
this is not a good scenario that cowboy george is setting up here.
it is hard not to accept the notion that this administration requires constant war or the threat of constant war to legitimate itself
think cheney's stump speeches during the campaign: if you vote kerry, you will die.
which presumably meant that if you vote bush, you never will.
but maybe conservatives like wars---no matter how absurd they might be---so long as a republican starts them and someone else, or someone else's kids, are sent to die in them.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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