[THE TENSION] For people who have college as an option, those incentives -- at the risk to one’s life -- don’t mean a thing.Rangel told Fox News over the weekend that young people join the armed forces only as a last resort. “If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq,” he said, “you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.”
[THE TENSION] For people who have college as an option, those incentives -- at the risk to one’s life -- don’t mean a thing.Rangel told Fox News over the weekend that young people join the armed forces only as a last resort. “If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq,” he said, “you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.”
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[ Morning Coffee] Chuck Hagel’s Honor November 26, 2006 - 11:25 pm Nebraska’s Senior Senator has an Oped in the Washington Post today, likely attempting to set himself up for a 2008 Presidential bid. The title of his Oped is Leaving Iraq, Honorably. Some excerpts of his Oped Follow: There will be no victory or defeat for the United States in Iraq.
[Persiangulf.com] | Abu Dhabi: Air India, which operates 134 flights a week to India from the Gulf, is awaiting directives from civil aviation authorities back home before it allows passengers here to carry duty free g... (photo: pd file)
[Eia.doe.gov] Oil heading westwards by tanker from the Persian Gulf towards the Suez Canal or Sumed pipeline must pass through the Bab al-Mandab. Located between Djibouti and Eritrea in Africa, and Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, the Bab al-Mandab connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea.
Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA Waives Decision on Aid for Iran’s Arak Nuclear Reactor
[ FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog] Schulte, the chief U.S. representative to the IAEA, said his country had no choice but to oppose aid to Arak, given past calls by the board for the project to be stopped, “the widespread distrust of Iran’s nuclear program and the risk of plutonium (being) diverted from this reactor for use in a (nuclear) weapon.”
[eternalhope.blog-city.com] From the policies that led to the Great Depression, to Barry Goldwater's call to nuke Vietnam, to Reagan's record budget deficits, to the Bush administration's failure of the occupation of Iraq and the failure to form an effective response to Katrina, Conservatism has been tried and shown to be a complete failure. These are not merely failures of competence, but failures of Conservatism to solve our nation's problems.
[ Blogue North] With violence in the country rampant, security has to be somehow restored and decreasing troops can potentially put American troops in danger. Without a commitment from Iran and Syria, a plan favored by British PM Tony Blair, it’s hard to imagine the right plan for the Administration to take.
[And So It Goes] The tragedy in Kabul is that by sucking so much of the stuff of global nation-building away from Afghanistan into the Iraqi vortex - where it is being squandered - the US-led coalition has created just the veneer of a democracy that barely masks so much of what is rotten in Afghanistan. Article
[POLITICAL CAGE MATCH] No doubt the Islamic jihadists laughed at us while we besiezed Target and our next door neighbor for a PS3. I want to run home and get the best gaming graphics man and machine can produce.
Russia warns against pushing NKorea, Iran ”˜into a corner’
[disgrunt] November 2006, Anthrax Vaccine Testing Called Off, North Korea Lashes Out at U.S., Japan, France blocks NATO bid to create a global terror force, Iraq waits nervously to hear if Saddam will hang , Neocons turn on Bush for incompetence over Iraq war , U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons, Three California elementary schools to fingerprint students, Nuclear bomb row breaks ahead of US polls, Scientists protested Web site nuclear data: report, Santa Rosa Press Democrat: There’s that other theory on 9/11, 7 U.S. Troops Die in Iraq; U.S. Intelligence Chief Visits, Moscow wants time limit on Iran sanctions, Cheney: It Doesn’t Matter What The Public Think, London and Big Brother, Bush: “The Only Way We Can Win Is To Leave Before The Job Is Done”…">4
[Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] KUCINICH: I think the Democratic control of Congress makes it more difficult for the president to pursue a policy which leads to military conflict with Iran. This president would have to come to Congress for approval for any action, and if he decides to take action without the support of Congress, I think he would find himself at a serious constitutional disadvantage.
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[disgrunt] Addressing the seventh conference of the general assembly of the Asian Parliaments Association for Peace, Ahmadinejad criticized the U.N. for applying a double standard, noting that “countries, armed with nuclear weapons, deny the rights of other countries to produce nuclear fuel and exploit it for peaceful purposes.”
[disgrunt] Olmert appeared, however, to play down a senior Israeli official’s suggestion that Israel is preparing for a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program. Asked to comment on Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh’s remarks, Olmert replied that on such matters, “we have to be very careful about what we say,”
[lgf: the monkey says, play the ukulele] “Since Washington’s hostile and hawkish policies have always been against the Iranian nation, this defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation.”
[halls of macadamia] Or, to be more precise, it'll only ever happen over Israel's blackened smoking corpse.Sanctions against Iran are unlikely to work, so Israel must be prepared to thwart Teheran's drive for a nuclear capability "at all costs," the newly installed Deputy Minister of Defense Ephraim Sneh has told The Jerusalem Post. "I am not advocating an Israeli preemptive military action against Iran, and I am aware of all of its possible repercussions," Sneh stressed.
[ Reclaiming space] First of all, despite the fact that the survey targeted readers of specifically ”˜Iranian’ weblogs, about half the participants were in fact Iranian expatriates, answering the survey from countries such as Canada, the USA, and France. To my mind, this highlights the transnational nature of the blogosphere and, specifically, the role it can play in maintaining ties between a vast diaspora and a home country.
[Judeopundit] The deposed Iranian tyrant, Mohammad Reza, was a high-profile wanderer, Mahdi Bazargan interim government had failed in establishing country-wide order, and the political and social atmospheres were dense and vulnerable. Anti-revolutionary figures, trends, and organizations were doing their utmost to dislodge the revolutionary gov't and to render the sacrifices the nation had made, fruitless.
[MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy] Iraq on the verge of nukes in 2002? Filed under: General, WTF, Politics, Journalism?, The War, Iraq, Iran ”” Beth @ 12:05 am I haven’t really had time to digest this-or filter out the NY Times’ obvious attempt to minimize this important stuff and spin it into a story about the Bad Bush Administrationâ™-but”¦am I seeing things? The Web site, “Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal,” was a constantly expanding portrait of prewar Iraq. Its many thousands of documents included everything from a collection of religious and nationalistic poetry to instructions for the repair of parachutes to handwritten notes from Mr. Hussein’s intelligence service. It became a popular quarry for a legion of bloggers, translators and amateur historians. Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990’s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr...
