So many things to talk about, so little time to type!
Let’s just start by saying last night on American Idol I got choked up when 60 year old Sherman sang, “You Belong To Me” for his wife who had died of cancer two days earlier. What a sweet man and I loved the way he sang it.
Next, “The Worm” Jacques Chirac goes all wiggly again. According to CNN, Chirac does not think Iran having a nuclear weapon is a very big deal.
PARIS, France (AP) — French President Jacques Chirac said in an interview with three newspapers that Iran’s possession of a nuclear bomb would not be “very dangerous” and that if it used the weapon on Israel, Tehran would be immediately “razed,” according to a newspaper report.Chirac — who made the comments during a Monday interview with The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and Le Nouvel Observateur, a weekly magazine — called reporters back the next day to try to have his quotes retracted.
In an article posted on its Web site Wednesday night, the New York Times said the Monday interview was tape recorded and on the record.
Chirac’s initial remarks would mark a big departure from France’s official policy of deterrence and work in preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
“I should rather have paid attention to what I was saying and understood that perhaps I was on the record,” Chirac said in the second interview on Tuesday, according to the New York Times.
On Monday, Chirac said of Iran and its nuclear program: “I would say that what is dangerous about this situation is not the fact of having a nuclear bomb. Having one or perhaps a second bomb a little later, well, that’s not very dangerous.”
Instead, Chirac said, the danger lies in the chances of proliferation or an arms race in the Middle East should Iran build a nuclear bomb. Possessing the weapon would be useless for Iran — whose leader has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” — as using it would mean an instant counterattack.
“Where will it drop it, this bomb? On Israel?” Chirac asked. “It would not have gone 200 meters into the atmosphere before Tehran would be razed.”
In the second interview with the same newspapers, Chirac retracted his comment about Tehran being razed. “I retract it, of course, when I said, ‘One is going to raze Tehran,”‘ he said.
Chirac also said other countries would stop any bomb launched by Iran from reaching its target.
“It is obvious that this bomb, at the moment it was launched, obviously would be destroyed immediately,” he said. “We have the means — several countries have the means to destroy a bomb.”
Regarding his comments that Israel could be a target of an Iranian weapon and that Israel would retaliate, Chirac said: “I don’t think I spoke about Israel yesterday. Maybe I did so but I don’t think so. I have no recollection of that.”
Oh brother. He is all over the place. Apparently it’s ok for Iran to have one or two bombs spread out over time. I’m sure they would never make any more. And oh yes other countries would somehow stop a bomb from reaching Israel using magic fairy dust. Iran will probably be nice enough to tell us when they are sending the bomb and whether it will be delivered by air or by suitcase.
Joe Biden’s campaign lasted about one day after insulting the chosen one, Barack Obama.
Al Gore has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming? How in the world does that result in world peace? Well if he wins, he can join Jimmy Carter and Yassir Arafat as one of the least deserving recipients in history. I think Alfred Nobel is rolling over in his grave at what a political tool and mockery his award has become. Next up, Hugo Chavez. I’m not kidding.
The Washington Times has an article exposing some hypocrisy on the troop surge. John Kerry, Harry Reid, Joe Biden and others were for the troop surge, before they were against it.
That’s all for now.
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