Your commie...er...Iranie has no regard for human life. Not even his own.

Yahooooooooo
Originally uploaded by vegacura.

This guy's a regular "Buck" Turgidson.

That's it
I was agnostic until now - actually I preached caution. But now I see no reasonable alternative.

It is time to take down Iran.

Any military move must be so devastating in its impact that the Iranian industrial capacity is set back years, if not decades, across a variety of industries.

I would not advocate "surgical" strikes. If there is advantage in using more firepower rather than lesser, then we should use more. We will receive no credit for restraint.

"Surgical strikes." "Restraint."

No. That would never do.

Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless *distinguishable*, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed.

Christ, I'm not sure that even Kubrick and Terry Southern could find the humor in These Great Times in Which We Live.