We will fight you on IRAN - Biden

[seemslikeadream]

please keep an eye on 'em Biden

[helderheid]

1. Thank you BIDEN!

[mod mom]

2. Better hurry up. Has anyone in the Senate brought up the storming of the Iranian

Consulate yet?

[robertpaulsen]

3. Constitutional Crisis.

What really scares me is that now that the gauntlet has been thrown, Cheney will think "How do I avert a Constitutional Crisis and still invade Iran?"

Can you say New Gulf of Tonkin Incident?

[dogindia]

4. They are trying to set up an attack on us by provoking. Carrier group as sitting ducks.

So then we could not stop them. Pearl Harbor etc.

[seemslikeadream]

6. Isn't it a definitive act of war for one country to storm the consulate of another, threaten to kill

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/01/presidents-intentions-towards-iran.html


...

That makes unplanned -- or seemingly unplanned -- confrontations highly likely, whether through miscalculation, miscommunication, misperception, or affirmative deceit. Whatever else is true, given the stakes involved -- the unimaginable, impossible-to-overstate stakes -- and the fact that we are unquestionably moving forward on this confrontational path quite deliberately, this issue is receiving nowhere near the attention in our political discussions and media reports that it so urgently demands.

For all the pious talk about the need to be "seriously concerned" and give "thoughtful consideration" to what will happen if we leave Iraq, there is a very compelling -- and neglected -- need to ponder what will happen if we stay and if we escalate. And the need for "serious concern" and "thoughtful consideration" extends to consequences not just in Iraq but beyond.


This is the most serious action yet. Isn't it a definitive act of war for one country to storm the consulate of another, threaten to kill them if they do not surrender, and then detain six consulate officers?

[LSK]

5. and Webb used his time to talk about Iran

[hashibabba]

7. We have to do something about this--and fast. Herr Busch is

cracking up and every day he gets worse than the day before. We need to get him out of office as fast as we can. We also need to get some laws to curtail his criminal activities. I know its not going to be a cake walk, but we need to get more proactive.

[Orsino]

8. On Iraq...not so much.

Frickin' Biden.