{"id":3043,"date":"2008-08-11T05:08:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T10:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2008-08-10T22:17:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T03:17:55","slug":"you-could-have-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3043","title":{"rendered":"You Could Have This!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, my blog partner JRoosh lit up a grossly dumb letter to the editor<\/a> from the Strib.<\/p>\n

But the gift of that letter just keeps on giving; the letter author – a Bill McGaughey of Minneapolis – isn’t just a crank letter-writer with deficient logical skills.<\/p>\n

No. He’s also a Congressional candidate; he’s been endorsed to run for the US House of Representatives from the Fifth Congressional District.<\/p>\n

And he had this to say last week on a Minnesota political discussion listserver:<\/p>\n

While the world\u2019s people want peace, world leaders have created a situation of persistent violence. The horrible, deranged act of a Chinese man against Minnesotan Todd Bachman and his wife in Beijing\u2019s Drum Tower pales in comparison to the scale of violence that is now taking place in South Ossetia, a region caught in the crosshairs of a power struggle between U.S.-backed Georgia and Russia that is important to maintaining supplies of oil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pales. Also completely unrelated.<\/p>\n

But what’s a little non-sequitur?<\/p>\n

Oh, it gets better (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Now there is evidence that the United States Government is hell-bent on precipitating a crisis with Iran. Granted, the information that comes to me from the Internet may not be totally reliable<\/strong>, but there is enough evidence from many different sources to suggest that armed conflict is not a \u201clast resort\u201d, as is often claimed, but an active, urgent imperative for powerful persons and groups in the Bush administration, notably Vice President Cheney.<\/p>\n

Consider this: \u201cSeymour Hersh says Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran, Think Progress reports<\/strong>. During the meeting, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them … This idea, intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected \u2018because you can’t have Americans killing Americans,\u2019 Hersh says.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look – there’s plenty of Iranian speedboats to shoot at. But hey, if Seymour Hersh (via “Think”Progress”) says so…<\/p>\n

Now comes another report from the blog of the Earl of Stirling – Stirling Castle was home to Scottish royalty prior to Scotland\u2019s political merger with England – regarding an American \u201carmada\u201d that had recently conducted war games in the north Atlantic and was heading to the Persian Gulf to impose a naval blockage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Er, where does the “Earl of Stirling” think the US and British navies are supposed to train, whether they’re going to “impose” a “blockage” or just deploy to the Gulf…<\/p>\n

….where they’ve been deploying pretty much constantly for the past three decades?<\/p>\n

The blogging earl, who holds the title of Lord High Admiral of Nova Scotia, names many of the ships in this multinational armada. He writes: \u201cThe build up of naval forces in the Gulf will be one of the largest multi-national naval armadas since the First and Second Gulf Wars. The intent is to create a US\/EU naval blockade (which is an Act of War under international law) around Iran (with supporting air and land elements) to prevent the shipment of benzene and certain other refined oil products headed to Iranian ports. Iran has limited domestic oil refining capacity and imports 40% of its benzene. Cutting off benzene and other key products would cripple the Iranian economy. The neo-cons are counting on such a blockade launching a war with Iran.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just a question, Mr. McGaughey; what do you call what Iran’s been doing for almost thirty years, now?\u00a0 Kidnapping our diplomats?\u00a0 Paying for anti-US terror around the world?\u00a0 Arming and funding terror against US forces in Iraq?<\/p>\n

Threatening to obliterate Israel and anyone who helps them?<\/p>\n

In any event, we seem to be headed toward a wreck of colossal proportions. The question is what average U.S. citizens, such as you and I, can do about it. We can urge our members of Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. While I have had some sympathy for the attitude of the Democratic leadership in Congress that we should wait it out until a new President is elected, now it appears that the Bush administration is poised to do major, irreparable damage before it leaves office; and John McCain, who supports the President\u2019s war policies, has become a strong contender in the race with Barack Obama. But it is virtually impossible that the Administration leadership could be taken out by such means. So what do we do? I\u2019ve run out of good ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s an idea:\u00a0 Run for Congress!<\/p>\n

Take it to <\/em>Rep. Ellison!<\/p>\n

I’m here for ya, Bill!<\/p>\n

Lefties in the Fifth District; Bill McGaughey is the real soul of liberalism<\/em>!<\/p>\n

And Jesse Ventura – the only Independence Party candidate who will ever be<\/strike> has ever been elected to office –\u00a0 the guy with the “9\/11 was an inside job!” sticker on his Porsche, is the perfect leader for this movement.<\/p>\n

So Democrats – write him i9n for Senate!<\/p>\n

They <\/em>are the soul of the left!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, my blog partner JRoosh lit up a grossly dumb letter to the editor from the Strib. But the gift of that letter just keeps on giving; the letter author – a Bill McGaughey of Minneapolis – isn’t just a crank letter-writer with deficient logical skills. No. He’s also a Congressional candidate; he’s been endorsed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}