irrelevent lies from 2-3 years ago ....
McPandering to AIPAC Jun 06, 2008
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McCain misquoted Iran's president twice, par for the course in any neocon speech. He spoke of "Tehran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons," blithely ignoring the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that stated, "We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program." (I still contend that since the Russians only began work on Iran's first nuclear reactor in the fall of 2002, whatever nuclear weapons program they had must have been kind of thing the kids from South Park could build.) McCain spoke of Iran's Revolutionary Guard as "a terrorist organization responsible for killing American troops in Iraq." Then Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, who was also a charter member of the infamous Project for the New American Century, promised to provide evidence of Iran's "meddling" in Iraq in January of 2007. The Bush administration has yet to provide any plausible evidence that any faction in Iran is arming or training Iraqi militants.
That's the neoconservative narrative on Iran, though, and McCain is sticking to it. McCain proposed additional measures against Iran, which he expanded on in a press release that appeared at his campaign web site the same day as his AIPAC speech.
One of his most interesting suggestions is "applying sanctions to restrict Iran's ability to import refined petroleum products."
Getting the rest of the world to voluntarily agree to not sell Iran gasoline is as likely as pigs pooping pineapples. President McCain might order a blockade of Iran, which would be an act of war even if the UN and or Congress sanctioned it (which they wouldn't), but a blockade wouldn't keep Russia or China or anyone else who wanted to make money (which would be a lot of people) from transporting gas into Iran overland. The pipeline already exists.
The other proposed measure that caught my eye was, "We will apply the full force of law to prevent business dealings with Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps." McCain is apparently talking about the resolution he and Joe Lieberman and Jon Kyle crammed down the Senate's throat that called for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to be designated a terrorist organization. I'd really like to know what American companies are doing business with the IRGC, and why McCain hasn't insisted on doing something about it until now. If McCain is talking about non-U.S. companies doing business with the IRGC, does he actually think they're subject to U.S. law? Could he possibly be that loopy?
I know. Silly question. Sorry.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/6...259/1015/530878
Arming our own enemies in Iraq (above) Jun. 06, 2008
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/06/grenade_launchers/
MSM Fumbles Iran Narrative Again May 19, 2008
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This recent "misunderstanding" about the Iranian weapons that weren't from Iran and the refusal of the administration's lap dog Maliki to go along with the administration's grim fairy tale should have shut the trash talk on Iran down for good, and it might well have if Big Media (other than Keith Olberman, whose program many people mistakenly equate with John Stewart's Daily Show) had reported it.
But Big Media said nothing. On March 17 searched Googled "iran iraq weapons basra karbala" again. Porter's story had made it into the Asia Times and AlterNet, and was referenced in countless progressive blogs. Tina Susman's original blog post had migrated to MichaelMoore.com. That's something, I guess, but the search string still fetched 0 relevant results at the New York Times and Washington Post web sites. You can bet your sweet bipi that if American inspectors had found so much as a slingshot with Farsi markings on it, you would have heard more about it overnight than you've heard about Britney Spears in the last six months.
I don't know if everyone in the mainstream media is in the tank for Bush now or if they all just suck or what, but something smells to high heaven like a big honking pile of fresh laid, pure unadulterated monkey business.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/19/85...2856/494/518194
got to invade