after reading Seymour Hersh's article in the current New Yorker(the one with the chicken on the cover) about ongoing war planning involving Iran - I thought to myself "Holy fucking shit - there are some crazy people in charge of this country. Good thing all those stinky hippies voted for Nader in 2000 - that really stuck it to the man!! If only Trey Anastasio had endorsed Gore in the 2000 campaign. Then we could have avoided the possible Iran war and the Iraq war. So aside for the many deaths the music of Phish has caused in the United States (38 at last count). The noodling 'jam' band is now directly responsible for the pain and suffering of thousands if not millions in the Middle East. Sell a bootlegged tape of that Trey!!"
This paragraph from Hersh's article sums it up well(the war planning, not the Phish bit): "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.' He added, 'I was shocked when I heard it, and asked myself, "What are they smoking"' (Hersh pg. 30) Italics and bold mine.
I would though like this blog to go on record as stating that the current President of Iran is probably most likely kinda you know insane.
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