The American Enterprise Institute is at it again.
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America’s neo-conservative lobbyists tune in for regime change in Iran
Danielle Pletka, acting as AEI host, expressed the often-heard view among America’s neo-conservatives that President George W. Bush’s forceful policy messages on spreading global democracy were not being matched by action.
US policy over Iran was unclear, debate within the Bush administration “has not been as robust as one might hope” and as a result little had been done, Ms Pletka told a packed audience at AEI headquarters on the capital’s 17th Street.
AEI, from whose ranks the administration draws advisers, such as Richard Perle, has set out to question the assessment of the Central Intelligence Agency and others that outright US support of the opposition would only serve to discredit it inside Iran. So, who better to ask than the Iranians themselves?
Didn’t we get into trouble by asking the Iraqis themselves, Chalabi and the INC?
Don’t worry, they won’t regime change again until after they steal the next election.
Yah, because the last regime change is going so well…
I thought you were going to mention the BabesAgainstBush.com folks.
What could be more un-American than that election-hijacking, economy-wrecking, war-mongering chimp George W. Bush? What could be more All-American than thirteen beautiful young women, exercising their first amendment right to thumb their nose at our bozo president? Clearly, these two opposing forces were bound to collide, and they do so beautifully in the lustrous, glossy color pages of this thirteen-month REGIME CHANGE COUNTDOWN CALENDAR! Each day counts off the number of days remaining until the moving vans pull up to the White House. And each month’s pages are liberally lavished with facts ‘n’ figures about the failures of the Shrub administration.
What is quite obviously required in Iran is a stable secular government whom the US can do business with unencumbered by any theocratic dogma.
This photo shows Donald Rumsfeld warmly greeting a promising candidate.
Since we’re a bit short of troops right now, let’s send the Enterprise Institute genius squad over there. Give Richard Perle an M-16 and a Segway scooter and he can lead the charge.
An infinite number of monkeys could shit better foreign policy than these people.
You got it! The game plan has always been:
Steal election
Force regime change in some M.E. country
Go to step 1
pantom
December 10, 2003, 4:14am
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Ya know, sometimes you just can’t post the same stuff enough. Some things just need to be said over and over and over.
George Washington’s Farewell Address:
Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all…In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations, has been the victim.
link: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/washing.htm
Grover Cleveland’s Statement Rejecting the Annexation of Hawaii, Dec 18, 1893:
While naturally sympathizing with every effort to establish a republican form of government, it has been the settled policy of the United States to concede to people of foreign countries the same freedom and independence in the management of their domestic affairs that we have always claimed for ourselves…It has been the boast of our government that it seeks to do justice in all things without regard to the strength or weakness of those with whom it deals. I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality, that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one, and that even by indirection a strong power may with impunity despoil a weak one of its territory.
link: http://www.civics-online.org/library/formatted/texts/hawaii_cleve.html