Mark Fuckin' Morford. Read this piece on Bush. Morford shoots & SCORES.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Don't think even Bush could be capable of using nukes to slap Iran? Perish the thought. All reports from underground White House sources -- most notably by way of Sy Hersh's horrifying report in a recent New Yorker -- indicate that Dubya and his remaining team of war-happy flying monkeys have been secretly laying out plans to attack Iran for months, possibly including the use of tactical nuclear weapons to get at those deep Iranian bunkers, all because Iran just celebrated its entrance into the world's "nuclear club" by finally enriching some uranium for the first time. Cookies all around! No matter that most analysts say that Iran is far from being a true threat, that a nuclear Iran is at least a good decade away, if not longer. No matter that 10 years is a good long time to work on ways to force Iran out of the game -- via negotiation, diplomacy, sanctions -- without unleashing another river of never-ending violence.

With Bush in power, there is no waiting. There is no thought of avoiding another hideous war at all costs. To the Bush hawks, diplomacy is a failed joke. Negotiation is for intellectuals and tofu pacifists. In the Dubya worldview, the planet is a roiling cauldron of nasty threats, crammed with terrorists and hateful Muslims and foreign demons suddenly growling on our doorstep when, curiously, they really weren't there before he stumbled into power. Amazing how that works.

It is now seven months before what could be a radically influential congressional election, a vote that could very well give power back to the Democrats, who will (with any luck) waste no time launching a number of long-overdue investigations into Bush's failed war and the various scandals and lies and fiscal abuses that led us all here.

For Dubya, now is the time. One last, desperate gamble. Slam that last drink, scrunch up your face, screw the rules and let the bombs fly. What, you don't think he could do it? Don't think a nuclear attack on Iran is possible? You haven't looked into the tiny, ink-black eyes of Dick Cheney lately. You haven't seen Rumsfeld's arrogant sneer, seen Bush looking confused and lost, wondering where all his "capital" went, desperately hunting for a legacy and finding only irresponsibility and self-righteousness and death. But hell, as we already know, that's good enough for him.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/04/19/DDG9EIAGN61.DTL

[dionysus]

1. oh SNAP!!!

n/t

[TomInTib]

2. Morford is as good as it gets.

Sadly, no one here will ever read this.

I have posted many of his columns here and nobody gets this absolutely straight-razor guy.

We are so fortunate to have him in our local daily (SF Chron).

Thanks for the post, B_E_B, I have given up trying to get anyone here to read Mark's stuff.

[Weembo]

4. We all read it

It is just hard getting it spread beyond these ivy-covered walls

[enlightenment]

7. Hi! I'm nobody and I absolutely don't get it

every single time I read his columns . . .

Now I'm sad. I thought I WAS getting it . . .

:cry:

Is it because I don't live in SF?

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Shame on you, TominTib, there are no 'nobodies' on DU -- you know that!

:hi:

[TomInTib]

8. Oh, now...

you're poking fun at my 9th grade education (no kidding) and my total lack of grammatical grace.

No offense intended, I just get so frustrated...

[enlightenment]

11. Uh, uh, buddy -- you don't get to claim total lack of

grammatical grace. I got it first! :silly:

I really was just kidding; I just got back from trying to explain WHY folks must care about this stuff -- to a class full of 20-something history students. That is frustrating, and I sympathize with your frustration!

[IDemo]

10. Same here, posted this article also

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=204642&mesg_id=204642

[donsu]

16. we read him, we love him

nt

[Blue_Tires]

3. kick

[Inland]

5. For Bush, war on Iran means victory in November: victory in polls means

it doesn't matter if he "wins" the war with Iran, as he can just cover up and evade the failure again with a republican congress.

Only by another reckless, doomed war can they bury the mistakes of the last reckless doomed war. The need to bury past mistakes isn't just political: Rummy, Bush and Cheney really are looking at prosecution and being hated as the cause of America's decline, and that's before global warming and possible terror attacks occur. I fear the writer may have it right. They may just roll the dice and take high odds that our country and world will go down the tubes in order to save themselves.

[Inland]

6. dupe

[Cha]

9. BooYa!

At least they'll read about it in California and on the Net!

Mark Moford gets the prize for the best description of the cheney gang's lust to bomb Iran.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

12. Thanks for posting the link to the complete article.

I understood completely and I live in Chicago. I also passed it along to like-minded friends. I just hope they pass it on..

[Up2Late]

13. Is the link still working for you? They changed the article, and now...

...when I click on the new link, it gives me the old headline, but the new article:

(It's just like playing blackjack in Vegas.

Invariably, sitting right next to you is some guy, eyes shifty and body twitchy and making weird sounds with his mouth and smelling vaguely of sawdust and horse manure and dead dreams, with a huge pile of chips he is quickly turning into a very small pile of chips....)

It's pretty good too, but I want to read the Iran article.

[RebelOne]

14. It's the same article. Read further down.

[gratuitous]

15. Gamblers call it "chasing bets"

As the chip stack dwindles, a player often gets desperate to get the big score that will replenish his stack. In a more secure position, he'd never plunge on a long-shot bet but hell, he thinks, I'm down to my last 20. If I hit this, I'll be back up to almost 200.

The house very happily relieves him of that last 20, and the gambler, if he has a problem, begins considering what kind of equity he has in his mortgage or what he can get for his car -- he'll buy it back later when he wins. No, he'll buy a bigger, better car! It'll take just this one hit . . .

[guidod]

18. Us alcoholics call it insane.

[alfredo]

17. Richard Perle on diplomacy

"If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now." - Richard Perle

One more nugget by the prince of darkness.

"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people."

-Richard Perle

Not sure if he was showing disapproval or justifying bush's reign.