(re: Hersh’s piece). Do you remember that thing with ABC journalist Alexis Debat last year? He reported on these kinds of activities, then ABC disavowed the story.

I am voting 3rd party all the way, and THAT only so that my name doesn’t get purged from the rolls of voters as “inactive”.

I’d prefer not to vote at all because the entire government, both major parties, are 200% compromised and filled to the rim with criminals and robber barons.

But some military analysts say Iran might not be able to hold the waterway, which is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, in a confrontation with U.S. warships and aircraft.

guess we’ll be taking the Niagara Falls from Canada and the Panama Canal from Panama too

I don’t think these guys know what the fuck they’re doin …

Shadow of War Looms as Israel Flexes its Muscle

Preparing the Battlefield by: Seymour M. Hersh,

Iran Threatens to Shut Down Persian Gulf Oil Lanes if Attacked

the price of oil should hit $200 a barrel tommorrow

Then, after recalling all the opposition to Administration plans from within the military, Hersh returns to Democrats’ failure to prevent policies they oppose.

oh for goodness sakes, isn’t it obvious that the Democratic Party in Washington does not oppose the neo-cons next agressive war?

They support it – all the faux feebleness is just kabuki, for the squares. Doesn’t Clinton’s ‘obliterate’ statement, and Obama’s finger-jabbing vow to do anything, anything to prevent Iran from progressing with its nuclear program – doesn’t this spell it out clearly enough?

The notion that the (D) party opposes the next cataclysmic war is just faith-based framing.

This is the primary reason I could never contemplate going to the voting booth and affirmatively supporting any candidate complicit with state murder on that scale.

and sorry, in the booth one votes for not against.

by the time the world’s oil market gets wind of the Iranian threat to close the Persian Gulf to tanker traffic if Iran is attacked, the price of oil will hit $500 a barrel, and America’s economy will go to shit

should happen about tuesday …

cuz, you know, threatening to take Iran’s oil off the market by boycott is about the same thing, and will generate the same results

so george and Iran are making the same threat

cept that george doesn’t understand that he’s threatening our economy