Those Crazy Iranians
Friday, April 30, 2010
First, they buzz one of our ships:
An Iranian maritime patrol aircraft buzzed the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower at sea in the Middle East last week, passing within 1,000 yards of the ship, but American defense officials sought to downplay the encounter as relatively common...
Of course, they were also complicit in the deaths of thousands of US troops in Iraq. And WE ARE STILL FIGHTING THEM IN IRAQ.
Then, the UN has put Iran in charge of the Commission on Women's Rights. This is not an Onion Article, people...Thanks a lot, U.N.:
Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest."
Amidst all of this, we are planning on easing sanctions on Iran...
The US is planning to soften sanctions on Iran. President Ahmedinejad will speak at the IAEA's conference on the NPT. Tehran's police chief said law enforcement will crack down on suntanned women.
Of course, the AP had a different take by writing an entire article base upon Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton's speech that she was supposed to give to the American Jewish Committee yesterday.
...On Iran, Clinton will say the administration is still open to engaging with Tehran but that it must meet international demands to prove its suspect nuclear program is peaceful as it claims and not a cover for developing atomic weapons. Short of that, the U.S. will continue to press for tough new U.N. Security Council sanctions on Iran...
Riiiiggghhhtttt....