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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (748713)	9/7/2006 12:44:32 AM
From: Jamey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

When we play around with snakes we are bound to get bit- but not in a fatal way. Ahmadinejad is crazy, imo and besides that he is all bluff. He knows that Israel is blocked by Hezbollah and we are tied up in Iraq with old equipment that needs replacing and although we have the world's best warfare technology it doesn't help if we have too few ground troops to fight a war on three fronts. Afghanistan is building up again and civil war in Iraq has us stalemated. Militarily we are in bad shape and this is his reason for playing god all mighty and threatening us. He thinks we are stalemated. My question. Are we? How could we attack Iran and then follow it up with 400 to 500 thousand ground troops to get the job done. Bush needs to pull out of Iraq and let the Sunni and Shite have at it. Let our troops prepare for Iran in a BIG way. That is the only resolution I see to shut his big mouth. Santi

To: PROLIFE who wrote (748713)	9/7/2006 12:50:19 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Re: "Thank God President Bush is finally calling a spade a spade." Yeah... but too bad he still can't tell the players apart (or, to extend the metaphor: can't tell one 'card' from another!), and doesn't understand that the Sunni 'terrorists' and Shiite 'terrorists' are quite WILLING to fight each other... (and that this can very much play to our strategic interests). The primary resultant of his 'policies' seem to be the strengthening of both sets of extremists, instead of their weakening. Sad. Very sad the waste and the harmful blow-back... considering that we hold the winning cards in our hands already, if we only had leadership smart enough to play them.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (748713)	9/7/2006 8:38:37 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Great post!!! Try to convince the demohacks... GZ

To: PROLIFE who wrote (748713)	9/8/2006 6:22:13 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Iran's former leader urges a 'dialogue' In rare U.S. visit, he urges multi-faith talks while ripping Bush over treatment of detainees. Johanna Neuman / Los Angeles Times detnews.com WASHINGTON -- Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, undertaking an American tour rare for ex-officials of the regime in Tehran, called Thursday for a "dialogue of civilizations" between Jews, Christians and Muslims -- even as he scolded the Bush administration for its treatment of detainees and other alleged human rights abuses. "I do not deny that there are a lot of problems in Iran," Khatami said at a news conference before a speech at Washington National Cathedral. "But I would certainly say those are not (worse) than the problems and violations in places like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Let's condemn the violation of human rights wherever it takes place." Khatami is believed to wield little influence with the hard-line mullahs running the country. Nonetheless, his two-week U.S. visit, which is also to include a speech Sunday at Harvard University, has provoked controversy. Khatami is the most prominent Iranian to visit the United States since the 1979 hostage crisis, apart from visits to New York for official U.N. business. He defended Iran's pursuit of nuclear power for what he said was its own energy needs. Unlike Israel, India and Pakistan, Iran is a member of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, subject to international safeguards, he said. Asked if he was disappointed that he had not met with U.S. officials, Khatami talked about the mistrust between the two countries, saying, "Before we can engage in dialogue, we have to eliminate the language of threat." Despite his reputation as a moderate and a reformer, Khatami's visit has stoked anger over Iran's treatment of political dissidents, and its persecution of religious minorities. Khatami was Iran's president from 1997 to 2005, when he was succeeded by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Many of the 52 U.S. diplomats held hostage in Iran for 444 days during the Carter administration are furious at the U.S. government for issuing a visa to a man whose rhetoric is soft but whose policies they believe mirror those followed in Tehran ever since student radicals took over the U.S. Embassy.