Or may be not.
The two led a bipartisan commission to review the decision process and authority to take the country to war, which also means committing atrocities against another nation. They are recommending a change to current practices, which allow the president to go to war at the drop of a hat, especially with a cowardly congress that will approve war spending retroactively with little to no oversight, just in time for the new hunting season: Destination Iran.
Well, may be not, a new law to redefine war launching powers is proposed for 2009. So Iran might be fucked either way. The decision for the US to attack Iran has been decided in Tel Aviv and at AIPAC headquarters in Washington, and implementation is pending the end of the current news cycle of presidential elections upon mass media’s request. So after November 4th, it’s game time baby, unless there is a recount in Florida, in which case Rupert Murdoch may ask for another delay, but certainly before inauguration day in late January. So most likely in December, I guess those bombs will be painted red and wrapped in green ribbons.
The proposed law is by no means in upheaval, its strongest change is perhaps a clarification of semantics. It continues to empower a psychotic president to launch attacks, after “consulting with” some members of congress, allow him or her 30 days before a vote of approval takes place in congress, and should that fail, our brave representatives begin a long war of attrition of litigations, resolutions, and counter resolutions. Bush & co. thought, or at least sold America on thinking that a war in Iraq can be completed within a comparable timeframe; the way I see it, as far as the war crew is concerned, business as usual.
The other big factor to remember, is how easy it is for one person to take the country to war when you have White House-prepackaged propaganda and fear mongering habitually aired in place of news and a cowardly, complicit and complacent congress that is unwilling to go against the will of a misinformed public or a corporate propaganda machine.
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Yeah, too bad we couldn’t vote Kucinich for President. He promised us peace with Iraq, Iran AND unidentified alien beings.
A winning combination, as far as I’m concerned!
We must do everything in our power to prevent interstellar war.
Posted by Anonymous | July 8, 2008, 10:15 amAs has been made clear by the US, EU, Russia, IAEA, UN Security Council, Israel, the Arab League, and individual leaders from around the world, whether Iran is bombed is a choice for the Iranian people and their selected representatives.
Having just seen Persepolis, it is amazing that the present generation of Iranian leaders would wish to return their country to a state of siege, bombardment and death.
It is especially surprising, given the desire on the part of the international community to solve this diplomatically, offering Iran massive financial and technological incentives to merely suspend enrichment of weapons grade uranium.
Nevertheless, if bomb we must, then bomb we will.
It is interesting to note all your commies supporting the Islamist fanatics in the Iranian leadership. There were once Iranian commies, too, but they were put to death soon after the revolution.
It is like this in every country where true believer communists, invariably educated in Moscow, start a revolution; they are the first to die, be it Russia, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Iraq or the West Bank.
It never fails; they are ready to spill their blood, and the totalitarian dictators that take over are happy to oblige. As anyone who has read “Archipelag Gulag” knows, the first cattle cars are always full of the true believers, many of them willingly led to slaughter.
Posted by Firouz | July 8, 2008, 10:34 amI haven’t seen the film of Persepolis yet, but I read all of the author’s graphic novels. How was it?
Posted by ally | July 8, 2008, 11:41 amI heard the book was better, but I am not a fan of the graphic novel.
The movie was alright; watched it with a few friends less “engaged” on international affairs, just to see what their reaction would be.
They enjoyed it more than I did. Everyone thought “Eye of the Tiger” was the highlight of the movie.
I thought they would spend much more time on the situation inside Iran. Instead, the entire movie is filmed or drawn as a series of flashbacks, and the volume of material means that parts which are meant to be emotional and intense appear forced.
The first quarter of the movie was difficult to get into – you felt like a rock getting skipped across the water. You are introduced to 20+ people, who are then killed off, imprisoned, etc., but of which you never hear again. This stripped any hope for an emotional attachment to the characters.
The only point of bringing them up was to deliver a message about how people were suffering, first under the Shah and then under the Islamists, but, again, it felt like they were trying too hard and the message seems forced.
Perhaps the deficiencies in the film are unique to the genre. Live actors may have better communicated a range of emotion and information that was missing of simplified in the cartoon.
I was a bit disappointed; it was my turn to pick the movie. Kite Runner was the last one I picked, which everyone enjoyed, and I felt like this was a step down.
Posted by Firouz | July 8, 2008, 12:24 pmJust to add, what I was really hoping for in wanting to see this movie, was the transition from revolution to Islamism. Iran was a vibrant nation with a millennial old class of intellectuals. To think that it could be stripped of its civility and human capital so quickly… this is what interests me, in particular, how this was accomplished.
In every revolution gone wrong, there is a moment, a series of fateful decisions which will utterly change the course of events. In Russia, Germany, Cuba, Iraq… in every revolution you have those who are willing to give their life to build a just, fair society. And yet, so often, the more nefarious elements are successful.
How this happens, from nation to nation, revolution to revolution, is both different and similar, and frightening.
Posted by Firouz | July 8, 2008, 12:33 pmSHALOM! HI ALLY! WOW VOTE OBAMA.
~Chaim~
Posted by Chaim "Hussein" Sugarman | July 10, 2008, 12:34 pmSHALOM! HI ALLY! WOW VOTE OBAMA.
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Posted by Chaim "Hussein" Sugarman | July 10, 2008, 12:34 pmSHALOM! HI ALLY! WOW VOTE OBAMA.
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Posted by Chaim "Hussein" Sugarman | July 10, 2008, 12:34 pmSHALOM! HI ALLY! WOW VOTE OBAMA.
~Chaim~
Posted by Chaim "Hussein" Sugarman | July 10, 2008, 12:34 pmSHALOM! HI ALLY! WOW VOTE OBAMA.
~Chaim~
Posted by Chaim "Hussein" Sugarman | July 10, 2008, 12:34 pmSHALOM! HI ALLY! WOW VOTE OBAMA.
~Chaim~
Posted by Chaim "Hussein" Sugarman | July 10, 2008, 12:34 pmSHALOM! HI ALLY! WOW VOTE OBAMA.
~Chaim~
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