Why can’t these Powerline assholes, and the many other voices who think Obama should be vocally supporting the opposition, realize that the last thing Mousavi and his people need is to be seen as puppets of the United States? If there’s anything that will turn the tide permanently against them, is to be seen as tools of the “Great Satan.” Obama is right to remind the ayatollahs that the world is watching. It would be counterproductive to cheerlead for the opposition.

(BTW: Nice to see Green Period Beckham. He was green before green wuz cool.)

They support the brave protesters and would likely be thrilled to put the Shah’s son in power as their leader. Would the Iranians want to settle a debt for the the arming and training of these guys.

Does Iran have a debt to settle with the US for this little faux pas as well?

Anyone remember the wingnut embrace of the Iraqi bloggers circa 2003? It went something like this…

Warbloggers: “We stand united with the brave people of Iraq about to be liberated by George W. Bush!!!”
Iraqis: “Oh no my uncle’s family was killed…”
Warbloggers: “Well, surprise, suprise. The ragheads are f*cking ingrates. Freedom isn’t free, losers.”

Its always nice to sit on the sidelines and throw stones. If we had the Old Man as president, I assume we would have a hat trick with Afganistan, Iraq AND Iran. Or at least, the Repubs would have shot their mouths off enough by now to convince the Ahmadinejad government that the US is behind all their election troubles and they REALLY woud have gone all Tiananmen on the protesters asses. Hard liners in both our countries are narrow-minded asswipes.

Hopefully, Obama got mint at least.

Oh and love the green Beckham memory. I always think of that incident when I take my animals to the vet.

“We make a few simple points…” Indeed. You are but simple people. And why clutter your small simple minds with complicated thoughts? They, like facts, tend to have a liberal bias. Stick to the black-and-white model of the world where consideration of unpleasant facts like the direct US involvement in events in Iran might lead to the harsh realization that staying on the sidelines on this one is by far the smartest thing to do.

I’ll tell you what — if we send Kissinger over as our goodwill ambassador, and we allow them to fry his cynical and criminal butt in public, maybe they’ll call it all even and start talking to us again.

”Now watch this drive…”

I bet Khamenei is quaking in his shoes at the though of being on the receiving end of the wrath of Time’s 2004 Blog of the Year.

Oh, you know, bygones. Sheesh, why are – you know, those people – so hung up on the past?

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to finish this post insulting the French for not being sufficiently grateful for W storming the beach at Normandy.

Oh, wait – that was a long time ago, wasn’t it?

“Debt of honor”? What friggin’ century are those idiots living in? Not to mention that if you want to talk about who did what to whom, and whose “honor” was at stake, the Iranians might argue that taking American hostages was a justified response to the American overthrow of a popularly and legally elected prime minister. (I don’t agree that such a response was justified – but I’m not an Iranian. I do think that it was understandable.) If we had behaved with “honor” in 1953, then we could talk about “honor” now without sounding like, well, Assrockets.

So we’ve gone from “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” to proclaiming everlasting fidelity to the protesters.

Hmmm.

It’s the Prizzi’s Honor view of foreign policy. “Do I ice her, or do I marry her?”

Surely there is only one group that can topple the Iranian Mullahs…I talk of course about the vast powers and the unquestionable might of the Red State Strike Force.

Hopefully, Obama got mint at least.

Pistachio.

“When ayatollahs twitter!” in Farsi sounds suspiciously like “When hell freezes over!” in English. Weird, huh.

The United States has a debt of honor to settle with it for the kidnapping and mistreatment of American hostages thirty years ago.

Funny they mention that and leave out certain stinky facts that don’t serve them.

P.S. Beckham looks so young in that photo. *sniff*

the vast powers and the unquestionable might of the Red State Strike Force

Coffee mugs, bitchez!!!

The United States has a debt of honor to settle with it for the kidnapping and mistreatment of American hostages thirty years ago.

Didn’t St. Ronnie already settle that debt when he sent them a birthday cake with a Bible in it, and buy arms from them so he could kill brown people in Central America?

At least it wasn’t Dijon mustard on a baguette. Can you imagine teh horrors?

By the way, since I’m late to the game, what’s up with the green dot on Beckham? I have a feeling I’m missing a great story.

Oh, they went there:

Heck of a glob, Barry.

Because election riots in another country are totally equivalent to a hurricane in ours.

The story of the Green Beckham

http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2006/03/24/6783/

OMFG! The President got pistachio ice cream? Are you serious????

Okay, he knows where pistachios come from (two guesses to the idjits at Powerline — nope sorry you fools, it’s IRAN and thereabouts). So it was a secret message, see?

He went out for ice cream with his children (and, yeah, what kind of jerk is that?) just to look all nonchalant and everything, but then he got pistachio ice cream as a secret code to let all those folks (that you wanted to bomb, last I heard) know that he is, like, totally on their side.

And which side is that? Iran. Huh? Both sides are Iran? Well what the fuck. Never mind.

Not only that, Pistachio ice cream is a lovely shade of green.

(The ironing is delicious…)

Thanks, WeirdDave. As I suspected, a funny story was involved.

The wingnuts, they are seriously nutty.

Would have been cool, but news reports have it as a vanilla fudge sundae, not pistachio.

But, but…vanilla fudge sounds like something so American. How is the president going to send secret decoder messages to foreign countries if he’s going to just eat regular vanilla fudge and not something exotic*? How will the wingnuts know what he’s up to when he appears to be doing what any dad worth his salt does at every opportunity?

*exotic = not vanilla or chocolate

“The United States has a debt of honor to settle with it for the kidnapping and mistreatment of American hostages thirty years ago.”

Yeah, embassy seized and hostages held for 444 days in 1979-80 vs entire country subjugated, oppressed, terrorized and held hostage 1953-1979 (PLUS arming Iraq with poison gas etc. in the Iran-Iraq war)…actually I think the United States could just hand over the keys to Florida, tell Iran to help itself to whatever it wanted and the US would still owe them. Powerline makes the usual mistake of thinking that Irans relationship with the United States began when they seized the embassy and that they did so for absolutely no reason at all.

Not to mention what the US is going to owe Iraq in terms of debts of honor one day.

Also, did someone say “Vanilla Fudge”