Archive for the 'Iran' Category
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
‘Filipino Monkey’ may be behind radio threats, ship drivers say
By Andrew Scutro and David Brown
The Navy Times
Posted : Friday Jan 11, 2008 17:24:25 EST
The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known […]
Posted in Iran, U.S. Navy, Philippines |
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Thompson: ‘I Don’t Care’ What The Intelligence On Iran Says, The NIE Is ‘Foolishness’
On Glenn Beck’s radio show yesterday, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) said he doesn’t care what the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran says. Iran is “undoubtedly intent upon nuclear weapons,” Thompson said, explaining, “I don’t care what this latest NIE says.” […]
Posted in Nuclear Issues, Iran, Weapons, Fred Thompson, N.I.E. |
Friday, December 7th, 2007
Bush: Pathological liar or idiot-in-chief?
Olbermann: Timeline for Iran’s nuclear ambitions was clear, but he kept on
SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, ‘Countdown’
MSNBC
updated 9:28 p.m. ET, Thurs., Dec. 6, 2007
There are few choices more terrifying(VIDEO) than the one Mr. Bush has left us with tonight.
We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking […]
Posted in Bush, Nuclear Issues, Iran, Keith Olbermann |
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
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Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
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Bolton Calls For Congressional Witch-Hunt Into Anti-Bush ‘People In The Intelligence Community’
Yesterday’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, pouring cold water on neoconservative calls for bombing Iran. Like his ideological kin Norman Podhoretz, former U.N. ambassador and Iran war hawk John Bolton has been attempting […]
Posted in Bolton, Iran, Intelligence |
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . .
In Sometimes-Brusque ‘Snowflakes,’ He Shared Worldview, Shaped Policy
By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 1, 2007; A01
In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid “physical labor” and wrote of the need to “keep elevating the […]
Posted in Iraq, Pentagon, Terrorism, Rumsfeld, War, Iran |
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Now, how could we have expected this administration
to have foreseen that little blip?
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By Mark Heinrich
November 1, 2007
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday Russia and China had been blocking tough U.N. sanctions against Iran for months and pledged a drive to impose them if Iran did not halt nuclear activity within two […]
Posted in administration, Nuclear Issues, China, Russia, USA, State Department, United Nations, Condoleezza Rice, Iran, Weapons |
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Fineman: Intel Community To Release ‘Three Iran Reports’ To ‘Slow Down’ Bush’s Warmongering
On the Chris Matthews Show today, NBC’s Howard Fineman revealed that the intelligence community will release “three different reports” in upcoming weeks to “slow down” the administration’s current drumbeat for war with Iran:
The intelligence community over the next few months is going to […]
Posted in Bush, Cheney, War, Iran |
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Webb: Lieberman And Kyl’s Hawkish Iran Amendment Is ‘Cheney’s Fondest Pipe Dream’
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) made an impassioned appeal to his fellow senators, declaring that the Lieberman-Kyl amendment on Iran should be “withdrawn” because the “proposal is Dick Cheney’s fondest pipe dream.” Webb cautioned that the “cleverly-worded sense of the […]
Posted in Cheney, Lieberman, Cong-SENATE, James Webb, Iran, Kyl |
Monday, September 24th, 2007
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Fallon: ‘Constant drumbeat’ of Iran war talk ‘not helpful.’
In an interview with al Jazeera television, CentCom Commander Admiral William Fallon warned that constant talk of bombing Iran is not hepful. “This constant drumbeat of conflict is what strikes me which is not helpful and not useful,” he said. “I expect that there will be no […]
Posted in Bush, Pentagon, Cheney, Movies, Iran, Admiral William Fallon |
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
had Major League Baseball expanded to Havana instead of Houston.
Sadly, it’s not a sport familiar with mulahs and probably will never be.
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Image: (Lo Duca) blogs.nydailynews.com; (Martinez) media.scout.com via phillies.scout.com (Drew) doubledogmusic.com via thehotcorner.org; (Main photo) via thinkprogress.com
Posted in Baseball, Iran |
Monday, July 16th, 2007
Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran
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· Military solution back in favour as Rice loses out
· President ‘not prepared to leave conflict unresolved’
Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Julian Borger
Monday July 16, 2007
The Guardian
The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves […]
Posted in Bush, Cheney, Movies, State Department, Condoleezza Rice, War, Iran |
