The Left Anchor

President George W. Bush poses with cyberterrorists before the start of the Conference of the Institute of Bush, “Cyberdissidents: Successes and Challenges”, held in Dallas at Southern Methodist University. Pictured from left to right (and together with the flag of the empire), the mercenaries of Cuban origin Ernesto Hernandez Busto, Oscar Morales Guevara (Colombia), visiting professor, President George W. Bush, Mohsen Sazegara (Iran), Visiting Professor, and Ahed Al Hendi (Syria).
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This is painful to watch. So, let’s watch it.

So President Bush is shooting off his mouth again, falsely stating that Iran has stated their intent to acquire nuclear weapons. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to those of us used to hearing this administration’s falsehoods, but it did seem like a good reason to revisit a certain missed opportunity, which represents one of the great failures of the last seven years: the White House’s failure to engage Iran in diplomatic talks in the aftermath of 9/11. Coincidentally, the Columbia Journalism Review took on this very story in their most recent issue, and by their account the failure was two-fold. One failure on the part of the administration to engage the Iranians, and the other failure by the media’s lack of curiosity about the story.
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Recently, I’ve been reading a lot of comments by both Obama and Hillary supporters that they would refuse to vote for the other if their candidate failed to get the nomination. I’ve seen such comments here and elsewhere on the internet. There is honestly a segment of voters who would refuse to vote Democratic if they don’t get exactly who they want on the ticket. Most often, this “reasoning” is followed by the statement that they would rather vote for McCain than have to vote for a Democrat they didn’t support in the primaries. This, quite frankly, is beyond asinine. The differences between Obama and Hillary are minimal and are mostly focused on foreign policy. Obama is a bit more diplomatic in his approach. Hillary is slightly more hawkish. Both are far from the rabid lunacy of neo-conservative policy.
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