Musings of a former chicken

Thanks, Comrade

Great quote and why don't you do a blog like that? Should be fun.

Btw, I don't have a fetish of any sort; I'm revoltingly  übernormal.

"I still have my own teeth. 'Just can't remember where I've put them."

I know some brothers and sisters are going to get

riled up here but the signal our brother commie (not you comrade) Dmitry Medvedev is trying to send to the West is that go ahead and start dropping the high precision ordnance on ta'R'gets!

benross

I know you did not and I was not meaning to say that you did. But there are those who do, some with mistaken good intention, most not.

prior to the stealths going

prior to the stealths going on bombing runs

I never took it remotely a probable realistic option. But as long as we agree on what matters... 

benross

R for restoration

R for regime change

R for referendum

All sound good to head off the R for revolution and R for recon prior to the stealths going on bombing runs.

Joojeh Basiji on hiatus:-)

I did not say you were against sanctions; my exact wording was, if you are.

So glad that you are not, that means besides being realistic, somewhat, our differences are mostly semantics and not over substances.

What you are saying about sanctions seems to be very close to the airtight I advocate to reduce the pain time on people and increase the possibility of success which would make the other horrible option moot.

For whatever it is worth till further notice your previously bestowed honorary titles are taken back forthwith!

I'll use R for Restoration

I'll use R for Restoration

That's the most likely outcome. But I'd use R for Referendum :-)

sanctions

I don't recall ever saying I was against sanctions.  Sanctions that have meaning would be great.  For example they should have blocked Iran's gasoline imports 10 years ago.  The sons of Mr. Rafsanjani come and go to the United States as they please.  Mr. Yazdi who has blood on his hands and was present during most of the show trials during the early days of the IRI comes to the US with impunity and gives interviews.  Jon Steward had Yazdi's son on when he was arrested and everyone was in tears about how this excuse of a human being has been arrested and they were all saddened about it.

 Sanctions that have meaning, would be to confiscate all property belonging to government officials overseas.  Don't just ban Iranair from Europe.  Don't allow those planes to leave Iranian airspace.  This government can be brought down with non-violent means.

Ruse

You are disingenuous from the get go where you say:

“The same people that swore up and down that Saddam Hussein had WMDs were dumbfounded when they didn't find a single canister of poison gas in all of Iraq.

There are thousands upon thousands of Iranians and Iraqi victims of Saddam’s poison gas attacks, the Anfal operation is too well documented to be denied even by Joojeh Basijies.

Once you learn to do something, it is impossible to unlearn it, besides there were ample ingredients for gas munitions discovered by the inspectors.

As for IRR bluffing and not having the technical wherewithal, your Peykan nonsense analogy, to build nuke-- then by that logic Pakistan must be a giant in technology whereas they stole it from Holland.

You claim:

“Everyone wants this regime gone.  But invasion and destruction by foreigners is the worst way to go.”

Agreed, but at the same time aren’t you also against sanctions or help from outside so Iranians can overthrow the Islamist Rapists?

If you so, then that is the exact position of the Islamists which makes your claim in wanting them gone a ruse.      

don't let your dogma screw your karma...

I remember long ago during the Iran-Iraq war the daily radio pronouncements regarding Iranian troop advances.  Everyday the announcer would say the Iranian troops have moved 20-30-50 kilometers in to the enemy's territory. When all was said and done, it was revealed that it took them 17 months and 90000 troops just to liberate a completely demolished Khorramshahr.  I don't doubt for a second the evil nature of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Since 2002 when the NCR revealed the existence of the Natanz nuclear facility to the rest of the world, various NIE reports and intelligence agencies have predicted Iran is only 18 months away from making a nuclear weapon.  Well those 18 months have come and gone 5 times over, and still no weapon.  The same people that swore up and down that Saddam Hussein had WMDs were dumbfounded when they didn't find a single canister of poison gas in all of Iraq.  Now those same people, those that weren't even capable of predicting the downfall of the Soviet Union, and cost this country in excess of a trillion dollars in its misadventure in to Iraq, not to mention the tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead, are now saying Iran is making an atomic weapon.  A country whose pinnacle of technical prowess has been to assemble the Peykan for the past 50 years, and at that they suck has suddenly developed the wherewithal to make nuclear weapons?  Now I know our good friend Fred here is going to copy and paste my comments and call me a jujeh basiji.  But so be it! Counter my argument instead of starting a schoolyard pissing contest.  How do you think Iran will master this engineering feat?  Could it be that the Iranian government in an effort to mimic Israel's policy of nuclear ambiguity to deter future invaders has perhaps overstepped its bounds.  That there is no real nuclear program and that all this is just a farce so they won't be attacked.  Everyone wants this regime gone.  But invasion and destruction by foreigners is the worst way to go.

Broken patterns

The whole alphabet for a good blog, like this.

F, for Marjaneh's foot fetish.

G, for google which brought up this one: "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine"

visit....//www.tudehpartyiran.org/mardom.asp

F as in

"Fighting for peace is like f'ing for virginity."

" When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge." - Tuli Kupferberg

I won't use the words "Regime Change" anymore ... I'll use R for

Restoration ... ;0)

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeVcOBHLDyE

It may not be ideal to some but at least it is unambiguous and clear cut  and No Boloney

In otherwords as the French would say :

"Il N'ya pas tromperie sur la marchandise"

At worst you know what to expect !

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZKiYgcgBAY

Hee Hee

Well said Fred

It is really up to Iranians to move along and take care of IRR for good.