Semi Truths A highly irregular weblog dedicated to Truth, Justice, and American Cheese…!

I found this little gem linked from the YearlyKos site: “Mission Accomplished Man” spreading fear and democracy in his wake.

My friends and I have frequently joked (???) for the past few years that we all somehow slid into a parallel universe after the 2000 elections and somewhere in the positive matter universe, our proud nation was being led by an intelligent and benevolent Al Gore.

This weekend, I heard President Gore on NPR’s Fresh Air and discovered that he had recently done an SNL skit on that very premise. Yes, this had probably been all over the internet the past few weeks and I just missed it. If you did too, you can catch the video at Crooks and Liars.com.

I would like to suggest a proposal regarding the Iran nuclear situation that, to my knowledge, has not yet been put forward.

The Administration is worried that Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear power generation are just a guise for developing nuclear weapons. Pundits are proclaiming that, once it is a nuclear power, Iran will threaten Israel. The International community favors diplomacy, the White House prefers saber rattling, and the rest of us think this all sounds awfully familiar and wonder whether the U.S. is going to invade Iran tomorrow or wait until the weekend…

I say: let ‘em have The Bomb.

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