My hangup is the wild speculation in quote of the OP, and the utter lack of facts. And where the only facts that are used are extended to imply something that they don't really mean.

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It's not a news article, it's an op-ed column by George Galloway.

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You're right, it's not a news article, but it is being presented as such, and is the only "evidence" in this thread supporting the OP. Of which no one else questioned, they just went with it.

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Well, it could be that stupid and it would be a basis, albeit unconstitutional, for Bush to declare martial law and suspend the election.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Israel would have a reasonable basis for doing so: Iran has directly threatened Israel.

But, since I have no problem with any nation developing nuclear weapons, I would object to Israel doing a preemptive strike on Iran.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Like it or not, there has been plenty of saber rattling against Iran, and any evidence presented by Mr. Galloway is only the latest.
Wouldn't that be fun...

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Then the public would carry different parts of his body to the four corners of the country and put them on disply.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

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Pffff. Not a credible threat.

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"Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Joseph Welch

For the media idiots, an op-ed piece is news - just like blogs are now news sources.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Whether it's credible or not is a matter of opinion.

There will be a war in the Middle East involving Israel and we know from history that nations have gone to war for far less reason than a nation directly threatening to blow another nation off the face of the Earth.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."