Iran says it Will Never Scrap Nuke Program and the State of the State of the Union

Iran will never scrap its nuclear program, and talks with Europeans are intended to protect the country's nuclear achievements, not negotiate an end to them, an Iranian official said Wednesday.

So, does this mean we're going to attack Iran since they're terrorist sponsors and openly developing WMD? Of course not! this president doesn't deal with nations who actually HAVE WMD's. that's not as good an election year PR stunt as a Manufactured crisis out of IRAQ!

Next manufactured crisis? Social Security! According to Bush, its on its last legs, and...wait...can you guess? it's a crisis! Actually, members of this agency testified under oath last week that the White House has been pressuring them to call it a crisis...Oh, did i mention 3 more conservative pundits/columnists have come out as being PAID by the White House (tax dollar$!) to promote the Bush political agenda in the media?

Just don't ask Bush why he's been raiding the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for his debt exploding budgets. And of course, no one wants to call this 'conservative' on his having the largest US debt in history. He must be busy fretting over gay marriage...i mean, its hard to keep up with that AND the whole future of our country and economy at the same time!

As for the State of the Union...lets keep it brief, shall we? Yay for elections in Iraq. now lets just see if this is the Bush cue to say 'thanks for a lovely evening' and dart in the house before we have to stay any longer. The problem with the bush speech, as well as the policy is that it is incoherent. we get righteous arguments (justifications) for wildly irresponsible policies and the reverse action on situations that clearly fulfill their claimed policy rationale. Think about it. Iraq MUST be invaded b/c they have WMD's...only they don't. when countries, some truly dangerous, are developing such weapons, we stick our heads in the sand (North Korea, Iran). What does this mean? the rationale was a lie. we don't go into Iran and North Korea because there IS a real danger of our boys (and girls) or innocent people being killed by such attacks. we went into Iraq w/o that fear because the threat of those weapons was a lie. not bad intel, and not imperfect data. it was a goddamned lie.