For one, it takes away the argument that people like you often use that the war is authorized by Congress.
Really?
Why then I seek a resolution condemning your mother’s acceptance of sperm and it will be carried out forthwith in a vote before this chamber. 
I didn’t get a harumph outta that guy.
Go do your homework, kid.
So you didn’t read your own link. Happens, I guess.
Stupidville, you mean. The sort of place that beats gays, votes Bush and doesn’t believe in evolution.
Kindly note that this resolution got 56 Senators voting for cloture; that includes 7 Republic Senators, since Lieberman is so hawkish he has a hooked beak, and Johnson is still in the hospital. The previous vote got 2 Republic Senators to cross the aisle. Patience, my friend, the votes will come. Especially when Republicans have to filibuster an Iraq spending bill they don’t like.
Thanks. This is my new favorite metaphor.
Yay! At first I was going to say ‘so hawkish he has wings’ but then realized that the polar opposite of a hawk is a dove, which…also has wings.
As I read on Daily Kos: “Joe Lieberman likes to be called an independent Democrat. I like to be called a sexual dynamo.”
Who likely think of themselves as good people.
It takes ingenuity to hold contradictory views.
Respect. [/Ali G]
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/43045/ This is an article which agrees with the obvious fact. We are in Iraq for the oil. The new Iraq Oil Law is being ramrodded through the Bush controlled Iraq assembly. The law has just been translated and it codifies the corporate takeover of Iraq oil reserves.
They are codifying 30-35 year contracts. No matter what happens to the country the oil companies will stay.
The Iraqi soverignty is abridged. The oil companies will have controlling seats on the Iraqi oil council. The board will determine the production .
Breaking the country into local oil regions. I am not sure how that will impact but it looks like Sunni-Shia-Kurd separation .
It has always been about oil.
Forgive me for sounding harsh, but why must you use a blog entry as a cite when there are so many credible sources out there who say mostly the same thing?
No, we are in Iraq (as opposed to say, North Korea) because there is oil.
Don’t you think we need to be repaid for the Iraqi liberation and transformation? Where will the money come from? A sales tax on insurgent videos?
At any rate, if we do go into Iran, none of you chowderheads will be able to squeal “it’s about the oil!”
US ‘will retaliate if ships are targeted’
US ‘Iran attack plans’ revealed
Google Earth Coordinates of Natanz complex: 33 43’28.59 N, 51 43’35.79 E
So when a gang of vandals break into my house, beat me bloody, smash the furniture, and run off with my TV and computer, I should then be expected to pay for the gas in their getaway vehicle?
Which posts upthread? Are you talking about #69?
In any case, please restate your thinking here:
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Why did the U.S. need a war?
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Why did the U.S. need a particularly messy, bloody war?
And why not?
No, we need to be punished and humiliated, severely. At the very least we need to lose all the money we’ve poured into this mess; it will encourage us not to do it again.
Hopefully increased taxes and a greatly weakened military.
Of course we will; it has oil too. Oil is the main reason we want to subjugate the region.
No, we’ll be able to point to a few very specific instances and people and say “You got us into this.” And finally have the means to charge those people criminally. We declined Iran’s concessions because our VP is a greedy slimeball. The ramp-up to war with Iran is being totally orchestrated. And this time, you won’t be able to squeal that it was due to faulty intel. I mean, great greasy goddess. Were you, like, hit by a talking-point truck or something? I mean, did something traumatic happen that you’re totally unable to address the relevant facts and have to bypass directly to spewing flag waving party line bullshit?
I’m not a nuclear engineer, but I was trained extensively by the U.S. Navy to run a nuclear reactor.
All reactors that I am familiar with have a procedure to quickly insert the control rods into a reactor to stop the fission chain reaction. The control rods are typically spring-loaded, and electromagnets hold the rods up. If you lose power, the rods are rapidly forced back into the reactor. This is referred to as a SCRAM, and yes, it is as simple as flipping a switch or hitting a button. The rods will be on the bottom and completely inserted into the reactor in a fraction of a second.
However, the problem is not only with stopping the fissioning in a nuclear reactor. The problem is with the residual decay heat still being produced after a reactor is shut down. (I seem to recall that decay heat can be as much as 10% of the pre-shutdown power level, but the linked article has the number at only 6.5%.)
Anyway, without a system for cooling the reactor following shutdown, this residual decay heat can potentially cause a core meltdown.
U.S. reactors are built with multiple, redundant cooling systems. They are powered by alternate electrical sources, including backup diesel generators, in case electrical power is lost.
Depending on the power level of the Iranian reactors at the time of shutdown, and the robustness of the Iranian emergency cooling systems, an attack on the reactor facilities that does as little as cut off all electrical power to the facilities could potentially cause a core meltdown and a serious environmental problem.
Ever hear of a distinction without a difference? Because that is exactly what your reply amounts to.
Besides, you’re not in North Korea only due to their lack of oil-reserves, but due to the plain fact that they can fight back with REAL WMD’s. You know, like NUKES.
Which every country in the planet that is not subservient to the good US of A, should be trying to acquire right-quick. Not like there’s any use for diplomacy with your Donkey-In-Chief.
Repaid? WTF? For destroying their nation and murdering them by the hundreds of thousands? Tell you what, send them a blank check and put the MF who made this happen against the wall. Let the Iraqis pick their own firing squad. I’m sure they’ll be no lack of volunteers. And this is coming from someone who doesn’t usually believe in the DP.
Then you can start to make amends.
I realize you are one stupid motherfucker, but learn your facts, before you open your anus in order to speak out of it…