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AMERICAblog: Bush official will meet with Iranians (but he's just there to listen)

  • jr · 1 year ago
    "don't worry, I'm still a eugenicist"-43 to Pajamas Medians
  • misterorff · 1 year ago
    A is for Appeasement
    B is for Bush
    C is for Condi

    Remember this Children. Of course, the media won't push this enough. What is it when a sitting President Flip-Flops? But then, I guess its a lot to ask "The Decider" what his views were 3 months ago.

    This is worse than giving Czechoslovakia to Osama Bin Laden!

    I wonder what McCain will have to say about all this...
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    Yeah,

    D is for Dark Vader

    E is for Empty Bush

    F is for Fucking Failure Bush
  • vickif · 1 year ago
    All these people who want war with Iran or any other country for that matter-should be the first to sign up and go and do the fighting instead of sending people who don't want a war in the first place. This is getting utterly ridiculous.
  • misterorff · 1 year ago
    I say send McCain... but he'd probably just end up crashing his wife's beer jet.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    "His wife's beer jet."

    LOL
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    Often there is some truth in jest. The McCain Naval record indicates that he crashed several planes and yet the Navy allowed him to continue to fly. This is unheard of as any Navy officer will explain. Also, the tragedy on the USS Forrestal ,in which McCain was involved ,gets precious little press. His punishment was a transfer to another carrier! We desperately need some light on the faux hero.
  • MotorCityBadBoy · 1 year ago
    So let me get this straight... If a Democrat does it it's called appeasement. However, if a Republican does it it's called diplomacy... I see now. I was really confused about how double standards worked. Only Olbermann will call the repubs out on it though. I wonder if McCain's friendly pool reporters will ask him about it?
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    That's OK.

    Bush people just screw things up when they talk anyway.

    When we get a real president, we should be able to put this problem away.
  • EmGD · 1 year ago
    Negotiations to tell them negotiations can't happen until they do stuff that would be agreed to if there was some attempt at negotiations. Sounds like Bush to me.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/2008/07/appea...
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    I agree with Bush Bites...

    Meanwhile, had to call the IRS about my "stimulus check"; waited 45 minutes, and the computer kept telling me "representatives are helping other customers." Finally, a real live person who assured me it had been screwed up by the service recommended by the IRS online (I had to file a paper return subsequently) and I'd be getting it in about 10 weeks.

    I told him I didn't appreciate being called a "customer" not a taxpayer, and the IRS wasn't a business (he agreed). Then, I told him when Obama got to DC in January, he was going to kick some ass...heh heh, that none of this was the rep's fault anyway.

    I may never get my "stimulus check" from this regime. After all, things are still FUBAR in DC...
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    I gots mine. I was so grateful when it came in so I wouldn't have to bother with tracking it down and the paperwork and all that hassle.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    Yeah, and while I'm getting a lousy $300, just heard that Trump sold Mar-Lago for $100 million to a Russian billionaire who made his fortune in "fertilizer" (sure). The guy paid $655K just in document fees, and taxes every year will be $16 million. Arrrrhhhhh. And this guy is only 59th on the list of the world's billionaires...
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    Was LIEberman consulted on this? He's probably the one who put the duct tape on Burns' lips...
  • lilybart · 1 year ago
    So, soon-to-be President Obama is already changing things.

    Man, he is Magic!
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    lilybart is right on target! However, it's not " magic" ,but rather the recognition by the right regarding how out of step they are and their realization that the American public is on to them.
  • KerrynowCampau · 1 year ago
    If we reduce tensions then the price of a barrel of oil may drop!

    Exxon must be on the phone to the White House right now.......
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    Just heard an analyst say that even if oil goes down even more, the savings at the pump may only be around 10 cents a gallon...did we think it would go back to $1.49?
  • KerrynowCampau · 1 year ago
    Very true. So Exxon's profits will get larger!

    The bush presidency has worked out very well for them.
  • misterorff · 1 year ago
    It'll trickle down... right down to their children's pockets.
  • kl8n · 1 year ago
    Ahh. I love the smell of appeasement in the morning.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    Pepsi, Coke or coffee, Jamshid ?
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    An amazing phenominon is occuring right before our eyes. Both the Bush administration and the McSame campaign are folllowing the foreign policy leads of Barack Obama. This speaks volumes for competence as a leader who, even before he gets into office, is leading the country in the correct direction. Who ever would have thought this possible?
  • avahome · 1 year ago
    WTF: http://news.aol.com/?feature=86477
    Report Says US Will Open Office in Iran
    "A British newspaper reports that the Bush administration will announce plans to establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran for the first time in 30 years. There's no confirmation from the White House, but last week a senior U.S. diplomat William Burns told Congress the United States was looking to opening up an interest section in the Iranian capital."
  • Asterix · 1 year ago
    When I heard this old Soviet song (wait for the chorus) , it made me think of McCain.

    Actually, having nothing to do with bombing, but rather the Stalin-inspired Baikal-Amur railway, not finished until the 1980s.
  • Bill W. · 1 year ago
    Okay Joe. Only since you mentioned that you "can always use help with those music references."

    McCain didn't turn "Barbara Ann" into Bomb Iran. He was singing a super popular 1980 parody of the song, "Bomb Iran" by Vince Vance and the Valiants <-(YouTube) off of the album "I Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans." It was a top 10 hit that was played on rotation on almost every genre radio station (disco, rock, country) throughout much of the country (especially in the DC area where I lived then) for months and months in 1980 during the hostage crisis.

    You may recall their biggest hit, "All I Want For Christmas Is You" in 1989. Vince Vance and the Valiants still tour. They even played twice in the Clinton White House, and in 2003, they also recorded a song called "Bomb Iraq", sung to the tune of "Yakety Yak" and supporting the imminent Iraq war.
  • Bill W. · 1 year ago
    btw, yes the song is pretty horrific, especially looking back at it through today's lenses. But back then, the song had a considerable impact on shaping public opinion against Jimmy Carter. You simply cannot overestimate how much of a hit the song was and the effect of the song's saturation. One of my poli sci profs' assistants in college did his doctoral thesis on the song's popularity and its impact in helping get Reagan elected.