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 Bush’s ‘All Options on the Table’ Means Only One ThingPosted on Jun 14, 2008
In this installment of Link TV’s “Mosaic Intelligence Report,” host Jamal Dajani looks closely at the true meaning of President Bush’s pronouncement on the U.S. stance vis-à-vis Iran, that “all options are on the table.” Could it mean he intends to follow U.N. protocol? Well, no—not from the Middle Eastern perspective, at least. Watch the clip:
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By Jeff29, June 18 at 10:10 am #
I think this should be settled with a cage match: Bush v. Ahmadinejad. They could put it on world-wide pay-per-view.
Report thisBy Don Stivers, June 18 at 9:13 am #
Bush sure looks tough there saying all the options are on the table as if it were HE that was going to face a gun barrel doesn’t he? Same swagger that got us into Iraq. He needs to be dropped into Baghdad without body armor. We could see how tough he is in the presence of REAL physical danger.
With ALL of the revelations about torture and lying, and this puke is still in office. What has our country come to. Our own Congress is guilty.
Report thisBy cyrena, June 16 at 10:39 pm #
Actually, the reason Bush likes to say, All options are on the table is cause thats one of the few lines he has memorized good enough to say without screwing it up. Only six words
Maybe Louise, this is part of it. But, did you check out how he pulls that plug out of his ear when he says it? The cowboy posture, like hes ready to kick somebodys ass? As if he could?
Report thisBy trisha, June 16 at 9:05 pm #
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Sadly, neither the election of McCain nor Obama will make any meaningful change to the Imperialistic desires of the U.S. Both are expansionist, both worship at the altar of AIPAC and both are owned by the corporate elite. The catastrophic increase in oil prices that an attack on Iran will bring, resulting in the destruction of much of the global economy and the imposition of a full blown dictatorship in America is, sadly, the price the world will have to pay to see an end to the neocons. It will be bloody, it will be traumatic, and it may last a decade or more. America desires an empire. It must go through its rise and fall like all those earlier empires - which were equally brutal.
Report thisBy joey5, June 16 at 6:52 pm #
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The correct response to 9/11 was a police action/ a police response .
Report thisThere are just few things we know for sure after all these years of war
The fifteen people that committed the crime died in the act.
The country behind the attack was not a country
It was not Mexico ,It was not Iraq and it was not Afghanistan.
The intelligent response would have looked allot like the movie Munich,
Except legally done without the explosives
Exhaustive police work with integrated intelligence
If we could only get a another chance to do it over, to do it right
By elwood p.dowd, June 16 at 2:59 am #
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I woke up the other night at 2:30 am with press conference sound bites from Germany on the TeeVee from our Nitwit-in-Chief. I’ve been suspecting for some time that the neocons have been planning to invade Iran but at that moment I was convinced of it. This is the identical rhetoric this lunatic used in 2002. He will not be happy until the US and the world are indeed at the precipice. There is a scary-as-shit scene in the film The Dead Zone that always reminds me of Bush.It is one of the scenes with the schizo president played by Martin Sheen. His psycho henchman comes in to congratulate him on the start of nuclear armaggeddon- “ Thanks Sonny… The missiles are flying… the missiles are flying...hallelujah...hallelujah...”
Report thisBy troublesum, June 15 at 2:32 pm #
Bush has a license to do anything he pleases, given to him by Pilosi and the democrats so of course there will be an invasion of Iran. These are the same words Bush used in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. He has nothing to lose here with an approval rating of 24% and being unable to run again. Its only a matter of timing. They don’t know if it will help McCain more if they do it now or wait and do it closer to the election. Criminal regimes and rogue states do not restrain themselves.
Report thisThey are like alcoholics on a binge. To expect that the Bush/Cheney regime is suddenly going to change the way it operates in the world is quite naive. The military option is always the only option and timing is all that is ever considered.
By Eric L. Prentis, June 15 at 9:59 am #
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President Bush and Israel saber rattle and say that Iran is pursuing uranium enrichment to make a nuclear bomb. The Iranian leaders and Russia say that this is a ridiculous assertion, Iran is only insuring their oil energy independence by developing a safe nuclear electric power program. Given the lies that the Bush administration feed the American people to trick them into supporting the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and before anyone goes off half cocked and makes things even worse in the middle east, the world demands hard facts on which to make a judgment. Where are our US members of Congress and the United Nations.
Report thisBy Louise, June 15 at 2:51 am #
Actually, the reason Bush likes to say, All options are on the table is cause that’s one of the few lines he has memorized good enough to say without screwing it up. Only six words.
Kinda like when Nancy says, “Impeachment is off the table” - even easier to remember cause that’s only five.
What is it with these two and their tables anyway?
Report thisBy billcosbys, June 14 at 10:36 pm #
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cyrena I think this was not part of the original plan. Rather it developed after they saw how easy the American people & press allowed all this to happen.
Report thisBy Jeff29, June 14 at 10:00 pm #
Interesting how the title says, “‘All options on the table’ means only one thing”, yet the video concludes with the statement that the U.S. cannot afford to attack Iran and Ahmadinejad knows it. There will be no attack on Iran in an election year. Both the democrats and the republicans are pushing the typical election year rhetoric. The Dems are screaming that we are in a recession and the repubs are screaming that we are in danger of attack from Iran. (by the way, neither one of these claims is likely correct).
As for Ahmadinejad, he may or may not be responding to “bullying”, but he is definitely responding to his uncertain popularity at home. He is pulling a Hugo Chavez: If you find a common enemy to rally your citizens against, you maintain power. Fortunately for him, the Bush administration has chosen to oblige him.
Report thisBy cyrena, June 14 at 3:16 pm #
George Bush and Dick Cheney are socio-psychopaths, and this has been their plan for far, far too long. Never mind any regrets for cowboy language. There is nothing that one can believe coming from the lips of either one. If their mouths are moving, they are lying, obfuscating, or at best, triangulating.
Ahmadinejad is taunting bush for the same reason I would. Most folks don’t like to be bullied, and that’s what Dick Bush has been doing for years.
And that’s what bush is..a mental midget meathead bully full of bluster provided ONLY by the capital of the US military machine and all of those whose blood he will continue to spill, to back it up. On his own, he’s less than a nothing. Ahmadinejad isn’t the only one who knows that, (the world does) but for the moment, Iran is the one he’s bullying.
Funny we don’t see him sending any threats to China, eh? Nope. He’ll spread his cheeks for them. He’s not THAT stupid! He’s just evil.
Report thisBy randyha, June 14 at 1:42 pm #
It will be a disaster for the US both on the political & economic level if we strike Iran. I agree with the report oil prices will fly off the roof and Ahmadinejad knows it and that’s why he is taunting Bush. I thought that Bush recently said that he regreyed some of his cowboy languague.
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