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In reply to the discussion: I'll probably get booted for saying this [View all]calimary
(89,951 posts)Glad you're here! To me, bibi netanyahu is certainly all that, but mainly I see him as The Boy Who Cried Wolf. He's been doing that since 1992, I think it was. That'd be almost a quarter century! Shrieking and yowling about how "they've got THE BOMB!" and "they're gonna get THE BOMB!" and "they're gonna have it in FIVE YEARS!" Well, we've had several five-year increments come and go, and everything bibi has been yelling about all over everywhere - has NOT happened. They STILL don't have nukes - UNLIKE what's widely and credibly believed of netanyahu's own arsenal. He's no different from the neoCONS who yelled and screamed "WMD!!!!!" and "they've got Weapons of Mass Destruction!" and "sarin! and nerve gas! and VX nerve agent!" and "boogeymen! boogeymen! With BOMBS and chemicals and WMD!!!!" and "they're hidden over here!" and "they're hidden over there!" and "they're hidden in Tikrit somewhere!" and "to the north, east, south and west somewhat!" Be Afraid!!!" "BE AFRAAAAAAAAID!!!!!!!!"
Just as we now have a rather delicious and satisfying (and DAMN LONG IN COMING) quote running around here from dear ol' Tweety himself, saying "you guys are just wrong, wrong, wrong and you aren't even ashamed of it!" - this is what the neoCONS and their favorite guy in their satellite office, netanyahu, have been yowling and screeching about FOR YEARS. And NONE of it is true. Not about Saddam Hussein. Not about Iran. Not about ANYTHING.
Their contribution to history will be one thing and one thing only - being ridiculously and embarrassingly and tragically WRONG, about damn near EVERYTHING!!!!! It's proven to be a pretty doggone reliable tip-off over the years. If they start yelling to us about how the sun rises in the east every morning, I'm STILL gonna get a second opinion. Every time they yell about something, that's the "tell" that they're just LYING, yet again, for 150-thousandth time. As to whatever they claim or insist upon, that's our cue to believe THE EXACT OPPOSITE.