Originally posted by FMFI think the boat is saying: "You better hurry up with those nuclear weapons Iran, because if you don't, you're goin' down..."
Nations "talk" to each other with their actions [can't find the quote from the Cuban Missile Crisis movie, but you know what I mean]. Surely the U.S. could not possibly wage war on Iran right now or even for years to come? So what is the second swing by of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln "saying"?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17027768
Originally posted by moon1969Clinton deserved every bit of criticism he received. An employee at McDonald's couldn't have done what he did and kept his job.
I couldn't disagree more. President Obama, like President Clinton, will go down in history as a true American hero, and having the core principle of improving quality of life for American families.
Moreover, the unsupported personal attacks against Clinton, Bush, and Obama have never made sense to me.
Originally posted by dryhumpThey were probably sacked under a hygene at work law, whereas clinton was clearly being attacked for his personal moral conduct, show me a married man who would not lie in those circumstances and I'll show you an idiot.
I've personally known McDonald's employees who were caught in the act at work (eww). They didn't get to keep their jobs.
Originally posted by moon1969If he's such a hero, why did he capitulate on extending the Bush tax cuts?
I couldn't disagree more. President Obama, like President Clinton, will go down in history as a true American hero, and having the core principle of improving quality of life for American families.
Moreover, the unsupported personal attacks against Clinton, Bush, and Obama have never made sense to me.
Originally posted by moon1969Funny, but also accurately states the case.
Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear WeaponTEHRAN—Amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, Iranian officials said Wednesday they were increasingly concerned about the United States of America's uranium-enrichment program, fearing the Western nation may soon be capable of producing its 8,500th nuclear weapon. "Our intelligence estimates ...[text shortened]... .S. providing weapons and resources to a rogue third-party state such as Israel.
Iran does nothing wrong by building nuclear capability for reactors or weapons. Other nations are free to try to convince them to do otherwise which may or may not be successful.
But no nation can force another nation to do something it does not wish to do EXCEPT when that nation is violating the human rights of its own citizens or actively interfering with the rights of another nation. (NB. If a democratic UN were in place, then nations could also be forced if they violated a UN resolution. But we don't have that yet.)
Any nation that attacks Iran for building nuclear capability will be clearly, utterly, absolutely and unarguably in the wrong. As an American I find it horrifying to think that any of my countrymen, especially our elected politicians, could express the remotest support for such an action. It is critical to hear under what principle they think such an action is warranted.
We are compounding the irrationality that was built up over Iraq. Instead of saying we were invading Iraq to depose a dictator (right!), we said we were invading Iraq to neutralize WMDs (wrong!) Iran is a repressive police state, but if we have an issue with that, then that should be our issue -- not building nuclear capability which many nations have done without repercussions.
Originally posted by dryhumpNot because someone walked in on them in the workplace as in the McDonald's case you mentioned. Perhaps you do not know the story of how his relationship with Lewinsky came to light.
Clearly not. Billions of people know what he did with Monica in the oval office.