OUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK

I saw this headline at CNN today..."FBI report: Prejudice fuels hate crimes"...wow, really? I'm stunned, all this time I thought it had something to do with grasshopper emissions.

WHAT'S NEXT IN THE WAR ON TERRA' ?

BunnypantsHe who has no name was in Columbia today talking about Iran and the work they've been doing in regard to nuclear weapons grade uranium...apparently, Iran has promised they have stopped and Bush wants "verification", i.e; inspections. You can be sure that there will be the same kind of cat and mouse bullshit in Iran that happened in Iraq...Deja Vu is a severe understatement here. My monies on the US in Iran within a year. We want to prevent other countries from having nuclear weapons...from an american perspective I understand this completely and easily, after all...those extremists could nuke us.
But, if I can put on the turban for a minute...the US has nuclear weapons...lot's of them, not to mention Russia (currently developing a new and improved nuke) and China and India and...oh, you get the point.
I can kind of relate with these countries in and around the middle east that do not have nuclear weapons as a deterrant to those that do. The fact that we have only unleashed our horrible power twice since it's developement says that we are either a: very measured and thoughtful or b: there that oughta teach those other countries a fucking lesson they and the Japanese won't soon forget, and, no, you can't have one, by the way, and if you try to develop one, we'll invade your country and kill you in the name of "freedom" and "democracy". Which roughly translates to " You can't harsh our edge, and if you do, we'll kill you" And...ever so subtly..."we could nuke you too if you push us, so don't push us.K"?
In the face of this, if I was a country, like say, Iran, I would want nuclear capability for no other reason than maintaining a level playing field. You nuke us, we nuke you...now that's an effective deterrant.
A very different statement, than, say..You nuke us, we fly some planes into some buildings.
For my purposes only, "nuke" equals "invade" in this post, because anybody invaded by the US has to have the nuke issue in the back of their minds...it could happen because it has happened. What better way to deter invasion than to have your own "doomsday weapon"?
9-11 was an atrocity, make no mistake about it...there were 3000 or more people killed, but let's look at the score card, a quick google search showed that we don't know how many Japanese were casualties of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, anywhere from 20,000 ( I had to laugh at this number ) to 1.2 million...again...1.2 MILLION people killed by the good old US of A...it was put forth at the time that it was done to avoid "more death" via a land invasion, but in reality, it was more to drive the point home to Stalin that we meant business, at the expense of the Japanese. Now before you jump on me for being sympathetic to the Japanese, let me point out that the Japanese militaries "Rape of Nanking" netted 300,000 killed and 80,000 raped...by some estimates, more devastating than our little drop on Japan...and done with coventional weapons and dimuntive japanese penises...who said they weren't efficient?
So, it appears that Japan has proven that you don't necessarily need a nuke to kill a shitload of people, but we saved all those lives that would have been lost by invasion by letting a bomb do our talking for us in one fell swoop. Fuck all that marching and raping and killing! Fire up the Enola Gay boys! Let's teach those nips a lesson!
It's insane. All of it. None of it makes any sense if you look at it...I mean, do you really think the majority of the middle east wants to enjoy the spoils of freedom and democracy? I don't think so. The ones that do are already here. I think we need to leave them alone as a whole and refocus our energy on the real threat...the terrorists...Osama, et al.
If we just nuked Saudi Arabia our problem would soon be over (just kidding).Which is not to say that I don't think SA is a problem. They are, more than we admit, I'm afraid...but we are so far up the ass of Saudi Arabia, we are in some sort of denial about how fucked up they really are, and what a threat they represent.
Just for grins, lets take a look at the joy of "freedom" and "democracy" according to the US. Unemployment,underemployment, outsourcing to third world countries killing our industries,healthcare in crisis and healthcare costs skyrocketing, a creeping, unending slide into poverty. The government is now effectively controlled by the religious right, the slow eradication of our rights...this is "freedom"? "Democracy"? Please...who'd want any part of this shitstorm?
Which brings me back to this...BunnypantsHe who has no name was in COLUMBIA today...talking about IRAN...
and so it goes.