lan astaslem on November 7, 2007 at 11:37 AM

Are you kidding? Political correctness has wiped out honest straight talk years ago. It has been replaced by the mush mouth press and scripted politicians. Even Hot Air is very touchy about open discussion. Hopefully, the pendulum will swing back one of these days in my lifetime.

Fat Chance.

-Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

saiga on November 7, 2007 at 10:55 AM

Very nice. Thank you for sharing it. Straight talk — something sorely lacking in the 21st century. Where’s our Churchill?

Isn’t that the Dems’ (and the world community’s) plan?

That way we’ll have a real reason to respond vigorously.

Maybe a single-spaced condemnation instead of double.

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!

Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has

ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”

-Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

1. Take out their nuke facilities and military infrastructure NOW and suffer the consequences of whatever response the Iranians are able to muster from the leftover rubble.

2. WAIT it out until these lunatics have the bomb, drop the bomb and kill millions of innocent people, and then take out their nuke facilities and military infrastructure.

Regardless of all the other factors that are thrown into the equation of what we can do and what repercussions might follow, weighing these two options should take precedence above all others.

The Iranians become more dangerous with each passing day.

Bryan, if this report is true I think we can draw a parallel between this thread and the previous thread. It’s reflective of more Russian meddling.

Dennis Kucinich could not be reached for comment. He was too busy trying to tear our own country apart.

What a jerk.

Meanwhile it’s time to kick the tires and light the fires, since the rest of the world won’t join us in tough enough sanctions to work (if tough sanctions could work).

Iran has achieved a landmark with 3,000 centrifuges fully working in its controversial uranium enrichment program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday.

Why is that a landmark, and not a grim milestone?

JammieWearingFool on November 7, 2007 at 9:13 AM

Mohamed ElBaradei was also unavailable for comment.

But Hans Blix was.

FYI. You need to edit your Blix link.

Ahmadinejad claimed . . . 3,000 Centrifuges. . .

Show me!

But Hans Blix was.