Okay with these mullahs stuck on stupid what to do with them. let them be and hope for the best. please inform. the last thing i would want is war but with options such as the UN and others what choice do we really have with such gutless wonders around the world.

Freaking Khamenei. Go Bush. Kick ass.

Ace, Drudge now linking Time article that states that final 9/11 commission report due this week has new evidence of al-qaeda Iran link.

What a great weekend-starter! It's the right thing to do and politically brilliant. This is how it will play out in debates:

BUSH: I will gleefully screw with the mullahs, flip their regime, and light up the Bushehr reactor like a Christmas tree.

KERRY: I will, umm, engage the mullahs in multilateral talks and continue to rely on the IAEA to stop them from giving nukes to their Al-Qaeda henchmen.

BUSH: You're a weiner.

KERRY: Yeah, I concede.

My contacts in the international drug trafficking underworld remind me that this would be a great time to repost this item, upon which I have heard little subsequent action:

http://www.cnsnews.com/SpecialReports/archive/200405/SPE20040524a.html

An Asharq alAwsat article (Nearly 400 Al-Qaeda Members And Other Terror Suspects In Iran) from Tuesday on Khaled al-Harbi had some details about the number of Qaida in Iran and where the senior Qaida operatives are being secured.

ABC's Insider Daily Terror Report (Tuesday) had more on the same Awsat article including Bashar Asad's warning to Iran that the US would directly challenge Tehran after the elections and one truly strange claim (last sentence):

Asad Warning May Lead To Tehran's Change of Attitude

A recent visit to Iran by Syrian President Bashar Al Asat may be behind an expected change of attitude by Iran towards the al Qaeda suspects being protected by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, according to Iranian sources who spoke to Asharq Al Awsat. Asad supposedly told Iran about a U.S. plan to strike strategic Iranian locations after the U.S. elections in November and pointed out that the presence of al Qaeda members in the country could be used as justification. Sources told Asharq Al Awsat there were 384 members of terrorist organizations in Iran, including 18 al Qaeda leaders. Meanwhile, sources also told the paper that Khaled Al Harbi, who recently surrendered to Saudi authorities after pressure by Iran, was allegedly suspected of having relations with the CIA, which is why the Iranian RG separated him from the rest of the al Qaeda elements. (Asharq Al Awsat)

So al-Harbi was our man? LOL. So that's how we came about the dinner tape shot in Kandahar where Usama was boasting about the 9-11 operation.

What message is being sent with this claim I have absolutely no idea.

I've looked around my usual haunts for a translation of the full Awsat article but no luck.

Bush would be well-served to do something as spectacular as destroy a nuclear plant before the election. He would recover the votes of the people who presently conclude the lack of any serious threats to us from the lack of any appearance of seriousness about destroying the threats. I think some part of the voters have concluded that the Iraq war was a sham defense because nations that give the appearance now of being greater threats to us still haven't come to any harm.

Let's see...

Fomenting dissent against the theocracy in Iran AND upsetting the Euros?

Talk about a win/win situation!

This is the most heartening news I've heard all month (since June 28, to be exact).

So are they reporting this as bad or good?

But...but...but...there is no connection between Iran and al Qaeda! Osama bin Laden said so, and Joe Wilson debunked any connection while drinking tea on a recent cruise in the Bahamas! How could Shrub be this evil to try and help people overthrow a rightfully-oppressive totalitarian government established by elites claiming to do things for the people??!!?!!

The last line in that quoted bit grabbed my attention.
The Russians are going to supply Iran with the fuel rods. Hey Putin, when a pilot is landing a plane he looks at the fucking runway to see where he's going. What are you looking at?? Where were you at the last meeting? What did I say?

Like they say, once KGB, always KGB.
Chirac is probably kicking himself for missing out on that little cash deal.