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9/11 Blogswarm: No War With Iran
President Vice President Cheney? You can’t bomb the crap out of this
without also bombing the crap out of this.
Not convinced? Then share this with Junior, too. He supposedly likes children.
Mr. President? Try turning the book right-side up.
D.
Oy. Iran. THERE’S a country we really don’t want to go to war with. Really. As in, “I mean it.”
Does ANYONE in America has a concept of how BIG that portion of the Middle East is? If we’re catering the party in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran, that’s a huge swath of land. From Jordan to Pakistan. Come on now. Stupidity.
(By the way, I hate Bush as much as the next bloke, but I think snopes has shown that the picture of the upside down book was photoshopped from an AP photo. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy the picture.)
It all makes about as much sense as Napoleon (or Hitler) attacking Russia. Sort of like a needle attacking the haystack.
Too bad that photo was a photoshop. My faith in Dubya’s stupidity is so profound, I hadn’t even entertained the possibility of a photoshop job.
You’re going to hate me, but here’s the snopes page. They’re such buzz kill sometimes.
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After all, the book has a pic on the outside. He should be able to hold that upside up. 🙂
Doug, what’s the correct plural of Rabbi?
Good one Doug.
Gabriele, Rabbi is the plural. The singular is “rabbit.”
Sorry, sorry. Couldn’t resist. The plural is rabbis.
Thanks, Sis.
Suisan, thanks for caring 😉
There are those (for the sake of a cheap yuk!) who would say there is no correct plural of rabbi.
But not me. Not me!
PS: On the other hand, I seem to recall hearing the collective noun: a “disputation” of .
It all makes about as much sense as Napoleon (or Hitler) attacking Russia. Sort of like a needle attacking the haystack.
The comparison between Iran and Russia won’t stand, I don’t think. The tools and situations are too different. Not that I think that attacking Iran is a good idea, indeed I do not, for the same, and much stronger, reasons that I thought that attacking Iraq was a bad idea.
If war with Iran is to be opened, it will have to be an air war. If that happens, Iran has a bunch of tools it can, and probably will, use, including methods of closing the Straits of Hormuz… and lest we forget, it shares a border with Iraq and there is a large and very pro-Iran population in the south. Should the US open war with Iran and have Iraq invaded, I don’t see the US getting a whole lot of sympathy around the world.
Is W stupid enough to do it? I wonder.
microsoar: How about a meshugenah of rabbis? Just a thought.
Dean, I don’t wonder. I suspect the only reason it hasn’t happened is that the highest ranks of the military have resisted the plan. Just a suspicion, because I certainly think Bush/Cheney are nuts enough to want to do this, and I don’t understand why they haven’t already.
Lol, microsoar. That’s the second good one this week. The other was a slavering of trolls. 🙂
My Hebrew grammar is in a box in the cellar, else I’d look it up. I think it is rabbeni, but I’m not sure.
Where’s Shaina when I need her? She’s my Jewish Studies major. I shall request her presence ASAP.
Btw, you might want to check my blog – I have some pics of a Mediaeval Jewish mikwe. 🙂
are you asking me the plural of rabbi? definately rabbis. silly. 😛
I’m just wondering what they’re planning on attacking with. Recent article in the Stars & Stripes said that recruiting is down so much that in the army, 12% of new recruits have waivers for criminal records (it used to be fewer than 1%). Sure, they’d start with air strikes, but only an idiot would think Iran would just roll over and surrender without being occupied by massive amounts of ground troops–oh.
And the military hospitals are full. It’s so bad that when Carl told TPTB that they’d have to dig up and reinsulate the foundation of a building on post here before they could use it for convalescing soldiers, they did it. (The Walter Reed brouhaha made the preventive medicine department very popular.)
Shaina, I think Gabriele might be asking for the Hebrew plural.
Darla, I hope you’re right. But why do they keep rattling sabers? It’s making a lot of Americans verrry nervous.
If it happens, Bush goes from being the worst president in living memory and probably second or third worst ever squarely into first place.
Iran is the rising power in the Middle East. Attacking her now is stupid beyond belief, and will only strengthen her. We’re already feeling the effects of out-of-control spending on a stupid war. It will be much worse if oil prices triple because Iran has shut down thirty percent of the world’s oil trade.
There is nothing good that can come out of bombing Iran, and an awful lot of bad. Rather like invading Iraq, actually, but worse.
rabbe’im, or something like that, then. adding “im” to a masculine noun makes it plural, for feminine you add “ot”. 😀
shaina, thanks. I think I had that backwards in my memory.
Dean, sometimes I wonder if what they want is a huge clusterfuck in the region, since it plays into their apocalyptic vision of the future. That much closer to the rapture, ya know.
Good to see which of my fellow American citizens, and I do use the words losely are eager to surrender to Islamic terror.
In the meantime I shall continue to enjoy all the rights under our Constitution, particularly those of the first and second amendments.
You can go under you much loved Sharia.