I was chuckling over news in USA MSM that Democrats have vowed to keep bringing back SCHIP and DREAM for incessant re-votes, as they're sure almost all Americans, regardless of status, would love to relieve Hispanics et al of the stigma of criminality areas greedily lapping for legal housing/healthcare immigrants imbued by calling themsleves Sanctuary States and Cities, as if ALL imigrants just squeeked in to commit mayhem around doing jobs at say amusement parks with ever-mounting OSHA violations (jobs Americans won't do, ar-ar!); to not want illegals is to be racist/nationalist/protectionist/isolationist, and further, who but a puke would even think States need to be accountable for monies they'd get via the deeply flawed SCHIP...has anyone but a Federal or GOP party EVER not used cash properly? And I understand from Dems that most of us in the USA welcome State-only casinos, healthcare, housing, no equity of any nature, the suing or jailing of those even who comply with laws generally, and the place-by-place decision of who's critical to a community or not.
Yes, certainly laughable rodomontade. But then, this morning on CSPAN's American Journal, inter alia, I heard some participants say Iran is peaceful in wanting nukes, Israel is a bully, and the USA has no credibilty due to Bush and his gosh-darned WMD thingy about Hussein. Aw, now what can I do except blanket-endorse Democrats and joing Obama saying Qaeda is good and how do I spit on troops properly and tar and feather elephants and get groovy vibe clothes while doing so comrades.....oh, wait a minute...as a Conservative, I don't cave to mere devil's advocacy.
I recall a history with post-Shah Iran. First, in 1979, Iranian and other Islamic jihadist fundamentalists led an armed revolution against the Shah of Iran, then an important ally to the USA and others. These rebels seized USA Embassy personnel and threatened to kill them if the USA or anyone else tried to aid the Shah against rebellion; Democrat Jimmy Carter, then President, said "oh, all righty then!"; a year or so later, hostages STILL in jihadist control, some noted GOP and militarists devised a way to let the jihadists think they got what they wanted (weapons) for hostages, but could be rushed once Carter saw the hostages he fretted freed. In go the arms, out come the hostages; "okay Jimmy, swarm, swarm, swarm!!!"; "um, Jimmy, Jimmy? Jimmy, where are you, Jimmy?"; Jimmy was beginning to criticize the GOP for aiding a terrorist organization, rather than swarming in. Neat how Dems use diplomacy as a moot yet double-edged sword, isn't it?
Now, all along, Iranian jihadists have ALWAYS called Israel a Zionist pig farm that needs wiping off the earth; it's not new for Mymood Alibabjihad or even Bush, either one. In fact, such folks always have denied the Holocaust, until recently usually restricted to their belief killing Jews is no holocaust. So much for Iranian peace mongers Israel bullies.
Hussein played poker, which like Iran to Carter worked as well or better as if he DID actually have the WMD he wouldn't let ol' U.N. inspectors, not even Hans Blix, verify as there or not. Even Senator Durbin was so adamant, during Clinton, that Hussein be removed on non-WMD grounds; but now, somehow Dem activists at least tell us calling poker bluffs, rather than giving in to demands as if the WMD were there, has hurt Bush chances of success with diplomacy, leaving "righteous" jihadists the only option but to attack us or our troops with America in the bad.
I support the Texas style poker of George Walker Bush; caving in to every lunatic bluff abroad could lead to say Brueni saying it has WMD so bend over, world, and would actually impede diplomatic pressure on say Darfur which would then nessecitate the very military bloodshed Dems say they don't want; also, in general, diplomacy where everybody else runs around saying "we surrender! Will you join our list of governments who 'loan' the USA money to raise sovereign pay and a Socialist society but not trade or jobs? You could send your folks next, if so!" sounds not only like consequence-free diplomacy but like the ultimate in useful idiocy.