This just makes me want to scream. It’s taken fromJohn McCain’s “joke” at a meeting in Carolina back in April. There was a question from the audience to the effect of “Isn’t is true that Iran is the real evil behind all the evil? Why don’t we just ’send an airmail’ to Iran?” McCain responded by singing this, to which he got a strongish Jovial response. Later, when asked about whether he thought his ‘joke’ might be offensive to some people, he said “Lighten up” and “Offensive to what? The Iranians?” I used to think McCain was kinda kewl, but I’ve lost that over the last year. He seems to have forgotten or denied the reality of war that he experienced in Vietnam, and now he wants to perpetrate similar insanity on others. Classic case of victim becomes perp I guess.
Yeah–I know what you mean about it going around in your head.
you asked
what possible benefit could there be to bombing Iran?
I want to raise my hand–”I know, I know–call on me!”
benefits of bombing Iran:
-Daniel J. Murphy and shareholders ofATK (can you say 90% of all small arms ammunition produced in the U.S.) will get richer.
-shareholders of Honeywell corporation (can you say napalm, asbestos, cluster munitions, and landmines?) will get richer
-Big (American) oil companies will perhaps get a really great law passed to make sure they can get rich off of Iranian oil as well, like they did in Iraq. This will make lots of people richer, like the Bush family, the Cheney family, the … (I could go on). I mean after all Iran does have the world’s second largest reserve of crude oil–one spot higher on the list than Iraq. In fact, from a purely capilistic point of view, we should have bombed Iran first, and then moved on to Iraq.
Comment by: benjamin ady
1 11/20/07 11:37 AM | Comment Link |This just makes me want to scream. It’s taken fromJohn McCain’s “joke” at a meeting in Carolina back in April. There was a question from the audience to the effect of “Isn’t is true that Iran is the real evil behind all the evil? Why don’t we just ’send an airmail’ to Iran?” McCain responded by singing this, to which he got a strongish Jovial response. Later, when asked about whether he thought his ‘joke’ might be offensive to some people, he said “Lighten up” and “Offensive to what? The Iranians?” I used to think McCain was kinda kewl, but I’ve lost that over the last year. He seems to have forgotten or denied the reality of war that he experienced in Vietnam, and now he wants to perpetrate similar insanity on others. Classic case of victim becomes perp I guess.
Comment by: joe
2 11/21/07 3:44 AM | Comment Link |I know it is only a silly thing, but it has been echoing around inside my head for the last few days.
It is just further evidence that the world has gone completely mad - what possible benefit could there be to bombing Iran?
Comment by: benjamin ady
3 11/21/07 1:05 PM | Comment Link |Yeah–I know what you mean about it going around in your head.
you asked
I want to raise my hand–”I know, I know–call on me!”
benefits of bombing Iran:
-Daniel J. Murphy and shareholders ofATK (can you say 90% of all small arms ammunition produced in the U.S.) will get richer.
-shareholders of Honeywell corporation (can you say napalm, asbestos, cluster munitions, and landmines?) will get richer
-Big (American) oil companies will perhaps get a really great law passed to make sure they can get rich off of Iranian oil as well, like they did in Iraq. This will make lots of people richer, like the Bush family, the Cheney family, the … (I could go on). I mean after all Iran does have the world’s second largest reserve of crude oil–one spot higher on the list than Iraq. In fact, from a purely capilistic point of view, we should have bombed Iran first, and then moved on to Iraq.