It will be very interesting to see how fast Florida's communities are rebuilt after the tornadors, as compared to the devastation in New Orleans after Katrina.
Posted by Judith at February 3, 2007 06:07 AMMy initial thought also, Judith.
Posted by Sharon at February 3, 2007 06:32 AMReading the statements coming from the government on the 'Iran threat' it is becoming clear that the real problem for the US government is not nukes or Iran supporting Iraq dissidents, but a threat to US hegemony in the Persian Gulf. The US has enjoyed dominance of this rather small body of water adjacent to Iran for decades and now feels that its dominance is threatened. So the US has placed fifty warships within easy reach of Iranian cruise missiles, high speed torpedoes and rocket-projecting mines, with a new Admiral in charge of the theater (aptly named), and will pull Iran's tail to see what happens. The new Pearl Harbor?
Posted by Don Bacon at February 3, 2007 07:40 AMDoes this headline, Justifications for attacking Iran on shaky ground look familiar?- (just change one letter).
Imo, Best part of the article is the last third of it..but my favorite line is the very last one (with some context jsut above it)
Further compounding the problem, the three U.S. intelligence officials said, is that the Bush administration supports not only Dawa's Maliki, but also two major SCIRI leaders, Abdul Aziz al Hakim and Abdul Adel Mahdi, who are also in the government.
"So what do we do?" said one of the officials. "Accuse the Iranians of supporting the same guys we support? That's awkward."
That's awkward....bwaaah, haa, haha!
WAE!
It will be very interesting to see how fast Florida's communities are rebuilt after the tornadors, as compared to the devastation in New Orleans after Katrina.
Don't bet on it Judith. FEMA has shown it's willingness to deny aid to anyone it can.
"That's the government for you, especially the politicians," he said sarcastically. "When they want your vote, they come around asking for help. They kiss your babies. But when those babies are homeless, they don't care."
It's the ultimate expression of republi-con thinking in regards to these disasters. You are responsible for everything that happens to you, disasters included. You just need a better job. We only have enough taxpayer money to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan. There are priorities, after all, and America is not a priority.
Posted by at February 3, 2007 08:47 AMMeet the Press kicks off its "Meet the Candidate" series on Sunday with Tim Russert conducting an interview with John Edwards the show's website promises will be "live," "in-depth," and "exclusive." Sure, right, uh huh, but will it be fair and balanced?
Love the story of Russert hating Chris Matthews.
Posted by Judith at February 3, 2007 09:06 AMWith Iran, there is no nuke case and there is no IED case, so our peaceful non-offensive fifty warship fleet floating around in the confines of the Persian Gulf (or US Gulf, we say) will have to be 'attacked', I predict, so that we can go on the offensive, probably with a hasty already-drafted congressional resolution, to punish those dastardly Iranians and 'protect the troops'. Another New Pearl Harbor.
Posted by Don Bacon at February 3, 2007 09:47 AMthat we can go on the offensive, probably with a hasty already-drafted congressional resolution,
Come on, Don. That would be like saying the Gulf of Tonkin incident was manufactured...
Posted by phidipides at February 3, 2007 10:01 AMI observed in a lower thread about al-Sadr that the troops in Iraq could very well the basis of the "surprise" provocation, perhaps more so than the navy flotilla assembling in the Persian Gulf.
Israel was completely within its rights, according to the entire MSM and Congress as well, to essentially destroy Lebanon this past summer because of some depredations taken by Hezbollah against a lone patrol of Israeli soldiers, remember?
We've already had some soldiers abducted and killed in Karbala, with a military "investigation" now ongoing into whether those super-sophisticated Iranians dun it.
Under the Israeli-Lebanon precedent, the death of a single US soldier, if assertedly linked to "Iranian agents", is all the provocation needed to do a Lebanon on Iran.
Posted by euzoius at February 3, 2007 10:52 AMThe 140 homes that were damaged by the Christmas tornado in Florida did not qualify for any FEMA aid, and the people are still bitching about it.
The state of Florida is appealing the decision by bushco.
Posted by TIKI AL at February 3, 2007 11:27 AM