… Tehran sent a few fighter jets into Iraqi or Afghani air space “to get an assessment of their air defences”? What about if Syria or Jordon sent a fighter over Israel? Can you just imagine the chest thumping rhetoric that would come flying out of the Whitehouse and the Pentagon at some point immediately after the nose of the fighter crossed any of those borders and just before the tail left Iranian airspace?
Sending your military into another country like that is a violation of international law (that means illegal in non-spin-speak), and it’s even generally considered a provocation unless I completely misunderstand how things work in that arena. In this case I’m pretty sure that George W. “I’m a war president” (or at least I play one on TV) Bush will excuse himself (he seems to be able to do that sort of thing under the US “he who has the biggest weapons makes the rules” clause of international relations….) from this inconvenient international law in the name of the war on terror which, of course, is the ultimate justification for all sorts of things he does and/or sanctions.
You know, I just wish for once you’d view bad press about America with some skepticism.
Just once.
The only named source in the whole thing from the US denied it.
I know you absolutely hate Bush, the US Military, etc. But dude, you really are treading on moonbat territory when you start parroting the Iranian press.
I’m sure they’re a nicely balanced and fair organization that reports all the student uprisings fairly and everything, and for that you trust them also, but come on man… Just once…
Skepticism.
You know, the kind you exhibit every time W opens his mouth?
You believe the government controlled