antispin's Comments (25)

“It's a bass line. Not to be confused with a military base. I've never listened to Guns and Roses, AFAIK, just pulled Reckless Life off their discography. So I figured I may as well look at the lyrics. God awful. That would be painful. We can hope the detainees don't know English.

On a holiday, a permanent vacation
I'm living on a cigarette with wine
I'm never alone 'cause I've got myself
Yes, I imitate myself all of the time
From: http://www.musicbabylon.com

Oh, Allah...have mercy.”

“Fact: Israel has no outstanding disputes with Iran.
Fact: Israel was on fairly good terms with Iran prior to fundamentalist take over of Iran.
Fact: The Iranian dispute with Israel was manufactured by Ayatollah Khomeini..Strictly out of religious preoccupations.
Prediction:Iran and Israel will once again be on relatively decent terms once radical oppressors of Iranian people are thrown out.

next subject..”

“I agree with that statement as well.”

“No, it is not true.

Al Qaida and the Taliban came some time after America was supporting the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan.

Both came about as the result of the abandonment by the West of Afghanistan in the wake of the Soviet withdrawl.

It is al Qaida propaganda that they had anything but a minor role in driving the soviets from Afghanistan.

If you want the mot authoritative account read Ahmed Rashids TALIBAN. Published before 9/11/01/ He lays it all out very well. the creation of the Taliban and their links to bin Ladin.

He actually interviewed Taliban fighters on their way into battle.”

“Good inquiry antispin but what I know is that:

President Reagan's administration, mainly through the CIA, used Pakistani Intelligence services to fund, arm, and train Afghan and foreign Islamist jihadis to defeat the Soviet army in Afghanistan.

Pakistan then used "channels built with U.S. money" to install in Afghanistan a friendly government -- the Taliban.

W. invaded the country and ousted the Taliban, installed the Pashtun, Hamid Karzai as president and returned many of the old Islamist jihadis to power in his government; thus the United States sponsored both sides.

The local Pashtun population is now fighting against the "foreign invaders" which is US along with the Taliban because they are fed up with the puppet Karzai, who has done nothing for the people.

http://www.wearewideawake.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1343&Itemid=222”

“Big business did not force people to live in a bowl. If you want to google something try googling that.”

“That's like saying Truman wouldn't have been President if FDR hadn't had polio. The fact is, among the very strong rhetorical salvos directed at Nixon, questions of his legitimacy were not among them.”

“You looked up the wrong word, diaphone. Try "diaphanous," the original word.

From medieval Latin diaphanes, dia "through" + phainein "to show"

1 : characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through
2 : characterized by extreme delicacy of form : ethereal
3 : insubstantial, vague

http://www.m-w.com”

“I hadn't realized Mullen went to NPS; I've done some work there myself, and got my MA just a few blocks away from there.. :)

Anyway, good ol' Mr. "Derek Smalls" Shearer hits the nail on the head once again; the only thing I'd add to it is, "Of COURSE Iran is headed towards acquiring nuclear weapons - just as much of the rest of the developing world is. That isn't the question. The question is, are they likely to obtain said nuclear weapons anytime soon? If last year's NIE is any indication, the answer is, 'No - not for another decade, at least."

I, personally, think it's perverse how ignorant most Americans are about what is universally agreed to be the single greatest threat to U.S. national security - ie: WMD terrorism. Every single citizen out to, at the very least, know that it takes months or even years of high-quality centrifuges running 24/7 to create weapons-grade uranium. Iran's centrifuges are neither high-quality, nor are they running 24/7, so it's going to take them at least a decade to develop nukes of their own.

And don't think that a sudden spike in centrifuge activity wouldn't be noticed by NATO spy satellites, either, by the way. This notion that Iran could suddenly obtain nuclear weapons within a week and completely undetected is the biggest farce we've seen yet from this Administration.”