I hope the escalation of rhetoric between the United States and Iran remains on the silly level:
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations,” in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The hard-line dominated parliament cited U.S. involvement in dropping nuclear bombs in Japan in World War II, using depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, supporting the killings of Palestinians by Israel, bombing and killing Iraqi civilians, and torturing terror suspects in prisons.
“The aggressor U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency are terrorists and also nurture terror,” said a statement by the 215 lawmakers who signed the resolution at an open session of the Iranian parliament. The session was broadcast live on state-run radio.
I wonder if they are reading from the Joe Lieberman Playbook of International Relations.
BREAKING NEWS!!!!! Reports arriving at this moment. Two confirmed cases of Verbal Diahrea. Both GWB and Achmaringading have contracted the easily transmissable disease. The world is holding it breath as well as its noses!
More later.
Silly level? Watch it. The American people have taken labels like “terrorist” thrown out against a people seriously in the past. The Iranian Elite Guard or whatever it is called will make the US State Department shit list. Eventually, there will be enough terrorists out there so that we will be able to use our military forces against them. You can’t fight small bands of terrorists with a military machine. You need big bands of them.
I’m with the Iranians on this one.
Silly is the exclusive trademark of Faux News.
I said the same thing when I heard we had called the Iranian national guard a terrorist organization. I felt that label aptly applies to our Army then as well. Sheesh. Sticks and stones and all that.
Odd that the Iranian parliament didn’t mention the 1953 U.S.-organized, that is, C.I.A., overthrow of the Mossadeq democracy in Iran, the subsequent re-installation of the ‘big dictator’ Mohammed Reza Shah, that is, in contrast to any possible petty dictator, and the U.S. training of the shah’s detested SAVAK, the notorious secret police who made sure no one bothered the shah or his U.S. supporters. Then there are all kinds of tasty morsels like the extraterritorial privileges of U.S. military personal in Iran who trained Iranians to monitor their country, much like Blackwater’s extraterritoriality in Iraq which the U.S. Viceroy Bremer introduced. In short, it’s more than hypocritical for the U.S. Congress to call any ‘kettle’ black. These are the little legal niceties the U.S. arranges before going off on another adventure of military prowess, as in Iraq where they’re ‘kicking ass’. Does anyone really believe that Iran is a threat to the U.S., especially since the president of Columbia University knew how to dump on its president—an invited guest—in such a tactful, civil and civilized way? No matter what, the U.S. has no leg to stand on, even if Democratic presidential candidates might think so.
A school yard tit for tat. Both GWB and MA are behaving like eight year-olds except the toy soldiers they play with bleed real blood.