Hmmm... the cops over there look scary. Good thing they're mostly covered up.
Posted on 03/17/2005 7:59:31 AM PST by .cnI redruM
Perhaps Mr. Ledeen can muster the Democrats, extra divisions and international support required for a direct assault on the Iranian and Syrian regimes.
If not, I suggest he restrict his prescriptions to the possible. That includes moral, diplomatic, economic, and perhaps covert support of the counter-revolutionaries.
Bush never said the B-52's were warmed up and ready for the signal.
A prediction: if history is unkind to Bush, it will be because he was too dove-ish, not too hawkish. We need to be more decisive, more aggressive.
I thought Bill Clinton said the Iranians were Progressives
They are.
"Iranian authorities beat up and tear gassed exuberant young revellers"
Wow... NRO invocked Machiavelli against Bush.
AZADI ping!
as I said last year at this time: look to Yazd. This time next year. don't ask me any questions. I cannot answer.
Nope, IIRC, he said "The idea that we are going to attack Iran is ridiculous. That said, all options are on the table."
If there's one thing I've learned in this WOT is is that things never happen fast enough for me but when they do they happen with astonishing rapidity.
I totally understand the frustration of the students in Iran. The people of Lebanon may feel the same frustration soon. I have faith that Dubya Booosh will not leave them hanging, even if it takes too long for my liking.
Mr. Ledeen's various paragraphs are very much at odds with each other. In some places he refers to "very large scale demonstrations," and later he describes "hundreds of Iranians" out for a night of partying.
And, of course, it's all a setup for the inevitable Ledeen Bush-bash.
Perhaps that is true, but there is no other American politician who would have done what Bush has to date.
Hmmm... the cops over there look scary. Good thing they're mostly covered up.
Hmmm...do they call them "undercover cops"?
Absolutely. I'm just suggesting that we could use more of the Bush doctrine, not less of it.
It easier to see that the "hundreds of Iranians" line is a quote from Reuters reading the article at the NRO webpage due to the formatting and the paragraphing.
But, it is a Reuters quote, which he is critizing saying there were thousands.
Cheers.
I think so.
The sumo wrestler on the left is way too big to sit in that little car. If she ever had to hoof it and haul a$$ it would take two trips!
"Bush, you told us to rise up, and so we have. Why don’t you act?"
... ...Might be a sign of that naivete or merely a journalist's cheap shot at GWB ("Faster, confound it."). Whatever it is, the Iranian opposition needs to understand that no one will step in to stop or support on and off demonstrations or because of an email report from the opposition that is probably overblown in its estimate of arrests, beatings, etc.
There will have to be a serious and broad based movement such as appears to exist in Lebanon; absent that it's going to be a long haul.
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