#preemptive war

[theniladmirari]

20 Most Likely Questions to be Asked at GOP Presidential Debate

LAST UPDATED @ 3:41PM (1.14.2015)

Fox Business drew the short straw to host tonight's GOP presidential debate.

Tonight, the Fox Business Network will be hosting yet another debate involving the Republican presidential candidates. TNA has identified these 20 questions as the ones most likely to be asked:

How weak and pathetic do you think President Barack Obama has been at everything he has done while in the White House? If possible, rank him on a scale of zero to zero. 

How will you keep Americans ignorant of the fact that socialism is what makes sure they actually get their tax money back in the form of government services?

If you become the Republican presidential nominee, what type of clearly sexist attacks will you deny are sexist attacks while you use them against Hillary Clinton, if she is the Democratic presidential nominee?

Did anyone else get that weird drunk text from Lindsey Graham?

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[theniladmirari]

Cow Dung Bust of Dick Cheney Unveiled, Iraqis Throw Shoes at It

WASHINGTON (The Nil Admirari) - Earlier today, a cow dung bust of former Vice President Dick Cheney was unveiled in the Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall. The unveiling ceremony attracted the likes of former President George W. Bush and Iraqi dignitaries, who threw their shoes at both the cow dung representation of Cheney and Cheney himself.

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"I am pretty honored to speak in front of you all today to unveil this cow dung bust of me, which honors my legacy of endless war and war profiteering. It doesn't even smell that bad, and I am wondering if only the outside is dyed white or all of the cow dung is dyed white," declared Cheney, who ducked as a fresh volley of shoes was thrown at him.

RELATED: Cheney Presidential Memoir Heavy On Criticizing George W. Bush

Cheney added, "It's weird that this thing is smiling, though. I don't do that. Anyway, I want to use this occasion to remind all Americans that I kept them safe, except on 9/11, of course. But after that, all the torturing and the wars that made me and my friends rich also kept you ungrateful wretches safe." Read More »

[newsdock]

North Korea has power to deter U.S. 'nuclear threat': foreign minister

The divided Korean peninsula is a "touch-and-go nuclear powder keg" and North Korea has the power to deter an "ever-increasing nuclear threat" by the United States with a pre-emptive strike if necessary, its foreign minister Ri Su Yong said on Tuesday. Ri, in a rare speech to the U.N.-backed Conference on Disarmament, said that joint military exercises being staged by South Korea and the United States were "unprecedentedly provocative in nature and have an especially high possibility of sparking off a war". "The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) cannot but bolster its nuclear deterrent capability to cope with the ever-increasing nuclear threat of the U.S. Now the DPRK has the power of deterring the U.S. and conducting a pre-emptive strike as well, if necessary," Ri told the Geneva forum. http://dlvr.it/8pgzGM

[post-makhno]

The absolute right to defend oneself by force becomes, in the context of industrial capitalism, the freedom to use violence globally: when social difference is seen as backwardness and backwardness as a source of danger to civilized society, self-defense calls for a project of reordering the world in which the rules of civilized warfare cannot be allowed to stand in the way.

Talal Asad, On Suicide Bombing p. 63

[infoterrorism]

Paralyzed Iraq War Veteran Tomas Young Has Died – Here’s His Final Letter to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney

http://dlvr.it/7W6sKZ

[freedomisunderrated]

If someone is arming and protecting themselves, that's like saying 'Well my neighbor's going to get a gun and he doesn't like me, so I'm going to shoot him first.' Rather than respect his right to be armed.

Adam Kokesh(in regard to preemptive war based on a country arming themselves)

[therealityinstitute]

March to Preemptive War on Iran Protest

I'm starting a protest of the March to Preemptive War on Iran. Maybe if we get it started soon enough, we'll be able to prevent the actual invasion of Iran from happening. Who's with me?

[zeitvox]

Nicholas Kristof >>

There really isn’t such a debate. Or rather, it’s the same kind of debate as the one about climate change — credible experts are overwhelmingly on one side...

So as we hear talk about military action against Iran, let’s be clear about one thing. Outside Netanyahu’s aides and a fringe of raptors, just about every expert thinks that a military strike at this time would be a catastrophically bad idea. That’s not a debate, but a consensus.  >continue<