Dhimmicrats Attempt To Reframe Debate On Iran

Posted on April 14, 2006

Bill Scher at the Huffington Post makes a feeble attempt to reframe the debate on Iran.

So far, the neoconservatives have done a good job of re-running their Iraq playbook and framing discussion on Iran, by laying out these premises:
1. Iran is close to getting nukes.
2. Iran’s President is crazy and irrational and committed to wiping Israel off the map. He can’t be reasoned with.
3. Bush is trying real super hard to get the UN to do something about it, but if they won’t…

If we are to have any hope of preventing a senseless war with Iran, we cannot accept this frame. If all of the above points are reported as fact and accepted by Americans across the ideological spectrum, anti-war arguments will be seen as knee-jerk, immature and reckless, and not get a fair hearing. In turn, Democrats in Congress will get steamrolled again.

How can we reframe the discussion? Our arguments should flow from the following framework:

1. Iran presently has a strong, rational incentive to get nukes. …
2. Iran has acted rationally and can be reasoned with. …
3. There is plenty of time to negotiate. …

I’m not even going to try picking this moonbat garbage apart, when Cox and Forkum and Dan Riehl have already done such an excellent job. Of course their main point is that we can’t trust Bush. If he says the sky is blue, then it must be black. I just wanted to note how ridiculous there number 2 point is. Iran has acted rationally? When did this happen? Is it within the frame of the left to consider statements like, “Israel should be wiped off the face of the map”, and absolute refusal to listen to the international community as reasonable? Here is more of Iran’s “reasonable” actions.

“You must bow down to the greatness of the Iranian nation”, he said, addressing the West.

He added that if the United States continued to seek to use “bullying” tactics then “every nation of the world” would chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”.

The liberal moonbats with their pre-emptive anti-war attempts are laughable. Are they getting their talking points from Cindy Sheehan? Maybe we should start calling these moonbats Dhimmicrats.

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otto on April 14th, 2006 9:59 pm

The Pope, while visiting the USA, goes out on a yacht cruise with President Bush. While cruising around, the Pope’s hat flies off and lands in the water. Bush tells the Pope not to worry and then to everyone’s amazement, walks across the water to retrieve the hat. The next day, the New York Times headline reads: Bush Can’t Swim!