New lows

My god! Hide your children! Hide yourself! Get under the bed or in a closet and pull something over your eyes. He's coming to New York. You know who, Ahmadinejad, that Iranian guy who thinks the Holocaust never happened and wants to wipe Israel off the map. Well, no, he does think the Holocuast happened. And he never said he wanted to wipe Israel off the map. That's what our MSM keep telling us he said but, of course, as usual, they don't get it quite right. But the President of Columbia University said himself that Ahmadinejad was a petty and cruel dictator. Well, he isn't really quite that. Actually he is only one of a number of Iranian leaders and does not have the power to do very much all on his own. He's an anti-semite and hates the Jews. Well, not exactly, there are Jews in Iran and they live pretty much as they choose and are represented in the Iranian Parliament. Well, he's meddling in Iraq where he has no business being. Iraq borders Iran and they have had a history of conflict so why would Iran not be interested in what goes on in Iraq. Well, they're meddling in our affairs. Our affairs, oh, yeah, it is our business what goes on in Iraq, 8000 miles away, but not the business of their neighbors. Well, why do the Iranians hate us? Actually the Iranian people don't hate us although they would have every reason to do so - our CIA did depose their duly elected leader in favor of forcing the Shah on them against their will, and we have turned down all of their attempts to establish friendly relations with us in the past few years, and we're now threatening to blow up their country, and such things. But golly, it's our right to tell those people in the Middle East how to live and what to do with their oil. And what right do they have to develop nuclear energy anyway? Just because they say they are following the law (and seem to be doing just that) we know they are lying (even though there is no evidence of that). But they are just being stubborn and don't want to do what we want them to do. I know, let's just blow them up and destroy their country in one big example of our shock and awe program. That'll fix everything.

Can you believe it? The complete and utter bullshit we are being asked to believe about Iran? Iran has not invaded anyone for hundreds of years as far as I know. Can we say the same? Ahmadinejad has said point blank they do not want war and have no intention of attacking Israel even though they believe Israel has not acted properly toward the Palestinians (and they are quite right on this point). They have extended an olive branch towards us and been summarily rejected by Cheney who seems to be determined to attack them (oil, you know, they have lots of it and Cheney wants it).
We are on the wrong side of this just as we were (are) in Iraq.

But not to worry. At this very moment our Senate is voting on whether or not we should divide Iraq up into three parts, Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites. You got that? Our Senate is deciding what to do with the citizens of a Sovereign nation (or at least a pretend one). Now come on, what business do we have telling the Iraqis they should divide up? Who are we to determine what is best for Iraq? This is American imperialism and paternalism and racism and ignorance multiplied to the highest degree.

Duncan Hunter will save us. He is going to introduce legislation to deny any form of government monies to Columbia University because they had the temerity, the poor judgment, the dangerous idea of inviting Ahmadinejad to speak at their University. This, I believe, is a new low in the tradition of free speech and academic freedom. What is it that Hunter fears so much? That he might have to listen to someone else's ideas? I think the most unfortunate part of this is that we seem to have a lot of Duncan Hunters. How else could he have gotten elected?

About the only thing lower than Duncan Hunter I can think of at the moment is Rudy Giuliani. You know, Mr. 9/11. Rudy's main claim to be Presidential material is his supposed heroics on 9/11 (which are disputed by a great many New Yorkers). With Rudy every day, every hour, every minute is 9/11. His supporters are putting on a fund raiser for him where every guest is asked to contribute exactly $9.11. If this is not a new low in fund raising I don't know what is. Rudy claims (ha ha) that he knew nothing about it. Would Rudy exploit 9/11? Do bears do it in the woods?

LKBIQ:
"The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies."
Basil O'Conner