where is everyone???
i know you’re out there. re Analysts Say a Nuclear Iran Is Years Away
If talk of war serves the administration’s diplomatic purposes, why are they working so hard to try to knock it down now? The logical answer is that the war talk — and the war planning — is real, but public discussion of it is at this point is premature, i.e. not part of the media plan.
this hasn’t been the first time hersh broke a story that pushed the public discorse where cheney&co wasn’t ready
to be outed. there is a sense of scramble to the rumblings.
the msm aren’t all on the same page, they’re winging it. throwing so much shit at the fan, enough for the right wingnut base to scream ‘go get um’ while the more reasoned to cry foul.
there seems to be plenty of credibility behind murmering of a plot to repeat the MO of the iraq war, down to the wire w/enough subterfuge to throw everyone off base. the last thing they want is exposure. they need time, just a little more time to pull the public on board.
if they don’t have the time i wouldn’t put it past them to go for it. there is urgency coursing thru my psyche. if public discussion is premature we need to push it to the forefront more more more , keep it there,not drop the ball. if the blogs keep pushing the media will follow, we need to flush the plan out. flush the lies out. bury the fuckers

Posted by: annie | Apr 14 2006 3:39 utc | 3

“where is everyone???”
I’m here. And I’m thinking.
“there is a sense of scramble to the rumblings.
the msm aren’t all on the same page, they’re winging it.”
The coherence and unity we saw during the run-up to the Iraq debacle does seem to be missing here. I’m having trouble getting my finger on the pulse of this one. When they beat the drums going into Iraq, AOA on the street was talking about it. Of course, what they were talking about were the prop memes they heard from hack lapdogs like Dennis Miller, but they were talking. Now, I’m a little isolated at the moment, but when I mention this Iranian business to one of the few Americans I am now in contact, I am getting a solemn head nod followed by a muttered “Yeah, it’s crazy.”
Now I can’t use the discussion here as a yardstick for what the people are buying this time around. Even if we can’t agree on the colour of shit most of the time, we have never had an abundance of Kool-Aid drinkers in our midst. Honestly, I don’t know how much of this is getting through to the guy on the street and how much of this is aimed directly at we who follow and discuss these things anyway. What are they talking about around the watercooler, not on the political blogs, in the ‘States right now?
“there seems to be plenty of credibility behind murmering of a plot to repeat the MO of the iraq war, down to the wire w/enough subterfuge to throw everyone off base. the last thing they want is exposure. they need time, just a little more time to pull the public on board.”
My memory of the run up to Iraq was that it seemed to take forever. Everyone knew it was a foregone conclusion, and right before the invasion, my protests were met with “Well, whatever they do, I wish they’d just get on with it already!”
Some here were projecting nukes by the 21st of March, which came and went without a peep. Seems to me they have had plenty of time for a propaganda blitz if that was the direction they were heading. Maybe the administration really is a limping, wounded, beast with almost as much internal bickering as the Left now. If that were so, I’d consider thanking God, despite His previous shortcomings.
“if they don’t have the time i wouldn’t put it past them to go for it. there is urgency coursing thru my psyche.”
I get that, too. Mostly because defense spending is the only thing keeping the US economy solvent at the moment. The “man-behind-the-curtain” is looking pretty hideous right now, and he’s going to need something pretty spectacular to keep Dorothy and Co’s eyes focused elsewhere. Armageddon just might be the ticket there.
“bury the fuckers”
May as well. Somebody’s going to be getting buried pretty soon.
Sorry for not having anything more insightful than that to add.

Posted by: Monolycus | Apr 14 2006 4:22 utc | 5

NB. The above prognosis is from the same guy who predicted in 1972 that McDonalds was a passing fad.

Posted by: DM | Apr 14 2006 5:50 utc | 7

ah uncle i’m sorry to hear that. my last flu hung on for a couple weeks but yours sounds worse. ears! i wish i had a remedy to recommend. once i had a pressure so intense i poured warm oil in it and then let it drain out. i can’t remember the results.
cayenne in strong doses knocks out about everything. it’s a bitch on the stomach but worth it. get someone to go to the drugstore and find empty capsules(lg size),the health store for the strongest capsicum available a and prepare about 30 capsules. take 4 at least 3 times a day.
i gave this dose to a friend, his doctor said he couldn’t believe it, he’d never heard of a case of mononucleosis lasting only a week.
of course for my flu i just layed around and worrried about how long it would last w/my show coming up and all, flu doesn’t encourage pro active anything, but in your case it seems to have a firm grip. good luck.

Posted by: annie | Apr 14 2006 16:10 utc | 9

Now if you had prescribed something with eye of newt, I might balk 😉

Posted by: beq | Apr 14 2006 16:49 utc | 11