Iran again holds hostages — Bush and the GOP

[DianaForRussFeingold]

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


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12285630/

[Xeric]

1. Another load from msnbc

One reason I don't go to that site or station.
The "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have been one of them" meme has been debunked but that doesn't stop them from repeating it. It's just "saddam has wmd's" all over again.
And "a nuclear-weaponized Iran is every sane person’s worst nightmare." is another one. It's not my worst nightmare. My worst nightmare is my country dropping nuclear weapons on another country in another "preemptive" strike.
The implication of course is that us bad people that don't support the president are tying his hands. Bullshit.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

2. It's like the 70's only worse

It's like the 70's only worse.Sort of like the Iranian hostage situation back then.we can learn alot from the past.I think we had the same players..Correct me if I'm wrong. Carlyle Group,Halliburton, Rumsfeld,Wolfowitz,Ashcroft,Rove and Bush1 were around then .Reagan promised the hostages would be released..Surprise surprise, As soon as Reagan was sworn in the hostages were released... Hmmm... Conflict of interest or what! http://www.geocities.com/francis_uy/halliburton.html

[DianaForRussFeingold]

3. Oops wrong link.. This is the one.

NEW:Read or Watch the entire documentary online (41:30) ORIGINALLY AIRED: October 6, 2004

ASCENT TO POWER Jacob Plotkin was Cheney's Yale roommate.

"It's hard to flunk out of Yale. It's something that one really has to put effort into. Yale at that time tried to make sure everybody who entered graduated.



http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/dickcheney/ascent.html

[rodeodance]

4. I think the idea of the US even considering using nuclear arms scared

a lot of people, here and abroad.

[Virginia Dare]

5. So they're going to recycle Poppy's October surprise...

how unoriginal of them.