Oh according to Hersch and the Bush administration is (among other things) considering tactical nukes against Iran. Cause we, unlike Iran, can be trusted with nuclear weapons.

quotations:

One former defense official, who still deals with sensitive issues for the Bush administration, told me that the military planning was premised on a belief that “a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government.”

Cause that always worked out so well in the past.

The attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he added, and some officers have talked about resigning. Late this winter, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sought to remove the nuclear option from the evolving war plans for Iran—without success, the former intelligence official said. “The White House said, ‘Why are you challenging this? The option came from you.’ ”

On Edit - sorry to mix this with your post Fay. Cause yay on trip to Thailand and all that.

At least until we decide to start bombing Thailand. Which I'm sure will be for a very very good reason. Trust us.

ION, it is way too nice a day for me to be working. Feh.

I didn't mean to (help) make people cry.

“a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government.”

Er. Maybe he means our government?

Sometimes there are good reasons to cry.

I admit, I haven't listened to it yet.

"It sounds like a high class escort service. Women who can kick your ass and fuck like rockstars."

Does that sound like what I should be running out of thevelvetedge.com?

Not should, necessarily, but it works.

Smooth healing to your dad, Spidra.

Am I just imagining that nuking another country out of the blue would effectively push the other 5.75 billion inhabitants of the planet into direct opposition of the US as a rogue nation?

Perhaps hour 26 of DeathMigraine 2006 is muddling my thinking, but I can't imagine how the neocons could spin that sort of action as warranted.

Not should, necessarily, but it works.

Hmm. I should work on a business plan, then.

Am I just imagining that nuking another country out of the blue would effectively push the other 5.75 billion inhabitants of the planet into direct opposition of the US as a rogue nation?

Oh, it's just atomic war.

Sorry to hear about the migraine, Matt. And sorry to hear about your father, Spidra.

Watching NUMB3RS, I'm thinking it's much like what you'd get if you crossed S1 Veronica Mars with Earshot. And then some.

God, I'm achey and sore. Why am I getting older? It doesn't seem fair.

Matt, why are you on the side of the terrorists?

I used to know the difference automatically, but I've seen it wrong so much online that now I have to stop and think, "cause and... effect."

I started having problems with things I knew automatically after working as a proofreader. So very annoying.

Gronk.

Am sick. Have been in bed all day. Well, really, have basically been in bed for the last 24 hours, except for the time I was in the tub with the hot water.

I felt ooky when I got up Friday, but had a zillion only-I-can-do-them things on my plate at work. Felt progressively worse throughout the day, went home, collapsed, and spent the next several hours having fever dream epiphanies that made so much sense at the time. I think I almost started a new religion in my head. That was when I was in the bath.