Can we shitcan the “bomb Iran” hysteria now?

I live in the district of Congressman Tom Lantos. He’s pretty progressive on most domestic issues, but tends to be an awful Bush-like warmonger on foreign affairs issues.

I was Googling around trying to find his email address, to urge him to sponsor HR676, the Universal Health Care bill, and came across this nightmare instead:

Lantos, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, said all of Israel’s accomplishments “will not matter” if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons.

Wha??! Will not matter? Um, Tom, I hate to tell you, but Iran’s neighbor Pakistan has had nuclear weapons for years, as well as plenty of missiles capable of delivering them. I don’t expect to see Pakistan donating to B’Nai Brith anytime soon. But, you know what? Israel’s accomplishments seem to have done just fine.

Oh, oh, but Iran is scaaary! Them’s dangerous fundamentalists! Horseshit. Iran’s population is young and modern and ripe for rising up against the geriatric religious mafia that is still trying to pretend that they run the place. Whereas, the only Islamic country which has working nuclear weapons, Pakistan, also has Al Queda operating openly within its borders!

Oh, but Pakistan is different, eh? Let’s see… what’s different about Pakistan? Wait, I got it! Pakistan has been engaged diplomatically by the US government, and we don’t have high-profile Congressmen lobbying to start a fucking war with them. Even though Pakistanis probable hate America and Israel more than Iranians do, we have thoroughly co-opted Pakistan by providing them all kinds of military aid, including recently selling them a shitload of F-16 fighters.

See, Pakistan is much more worried about India than it is about Israel or the USA. And I’m willing to bet that Iran is much more worried about Pakistan, and, um, the various factions wrestling for control of Iraq, and all its other immediate neighbors, than it is about a competing theocracy halfway across the continent over on the Mediterranean.

Please, can we cut the saber-rattling and warmongering now? It’s not helpful.

Space Ghost for Preznit

According to Wikipedia:

Space Ghost is shown to be arrogant, showboatish, uninformed, oblivious to his own stupidity, and violent when provoked.

That’s it! That’s the ideal Repugnican candidate for preznit. Space Ghost in 2008! He’ll be just like Bush.