Iran again holds hostages — Bush and the GOP (Howard Fineman)

[kpete]

By Howard Fineman
MSNBC contributor

Iran again holds hostages — Bush and the GOP
President lacks ‘political capital’ as he confronts Tehran's nuclear threat

WASHINGTON - A generation ago, the Iranian hostage crisis cost Jimmy Carter and the Democrats the White House. Now, 26 years later, another Iranian hostage crisis threatens to do the same thing to George W. Bush and the Republican Party.

In 1979, young Islamic radicals (Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have been one of them) imprisoned 52 Americans in Teheran for 444 humiliating days. Today, the whole world is hostage – not only to Iran’s fanaticism but, ironically, to America’s diminished power, and the president’s diminished standing, in the aftermath of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

A nuclear-weaponized Iran is every sane person’s worst nightmare. And yet talking to politicians, diplomats and military types here, you get the sense that President Bush is trapped in every direction. A “war president” can’t launch a strike if the country isn’t behind him, if the likely costs in blood and treasure are obviously too high, and if voters are dubious about the benefits – in terms of their own safety – of the battles he’s already chosen to fight.

more at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12285630/from/RS.2/

[gordianot]

1. They get the same deal as North Korea. What happens when you cry wolf.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. The Boy who cried "Mushroom Cloud" don't have a leg to stand

on. How can anyone trust a proven chronic liar? Only a fool would trust him. I was NEVER fool enough to believe a word he's ever said.

Bush lies, people die, those are the facts! Proven over and over!

[CrispyQ]

3. ...

The Boy who cried "Mushroom Cloud"


:rofl:

[AndyTiedye]

4. I Think Most of the World Is More Afraid Of Bush** than Iran

A nuclear-weaponized Iran is every sane person’s worst nightmare.

More so than a nuclear-weaponized George Bush**?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. Guy James had a nice take on this during his radio show today...

I don't have the exact quote, but anyone who wants it can download the MP3 of today's show from The White Rose Society.

Guy was talking about the Bay Of Pigs situation, and how at the time EVERYONE was on edge, scared, wondering if the end of the world was right around the corner.

"This time," Guy said, "The crazy guy is on OUR side."

Remember, Son of Sam's dog told him to kill people. George W. Bush hears voices in HIS head, too.

:scared:

[jayfish]

5. If I Hear "A nuclear-weaponized Iran is every sane person’s...

worst nightmare", I think I'm going to :puke:. As if Iran would spend untold amounts of money to develop a Nookular weapon then immediately use it in first-strike capacity. insuring its' and half the Middle-Easts destruction. It just not very deep thinking.

Jay

[magellan]

6. I'm just going to come right out and say it

I don't give a DAMN about Iran's possible intentions of building a nuclear weapon. I don't care if they magically conjure up a nuke TOMORROW. They're surrounded by nuclear nations and hemmed in on two sides by countries that are occupied by the US military. I'd want a fucking nuclear weapon as a deterrent too.

And my, how we like to ignore cause and effect!! The transformation of Iran back into a radically-led and perhaps dangerous nation has come entirely in response to god damn GEORGE BUSH villifying them on the international stage as part of the 'axis of evil' and invading their closest neighbors, Afghanistan and Iraq. If Mexico and Canada were taken over by bin Laden, would we feel any less threatened than Iran does now?

I am sick to death of Bush** inventing hobgoblins and then insisting, despite all evidence to the contrary, that they need to be "neutralized". Bush** is nothing less than hell bent on destroying yet another nation who's only crime against the US is having a leader who uses the same insane rhetoric he does.

And I'm sick to death of warmongering pissants like you, Howard, who wouldn't care to acquaint themselves with honesty and humanity if they were two strippers offering you a free lap dance.

I'll tell you what my worst nightmare is every night, Howard: another 3 years of BUSH**.