Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says pipelines in the country’s oil-rich south were on the list of bombing targets by US-sponsored agents.

In a Saturday issued statement, the Intelligence Ministry said the terrorist group’s targets also included Iran’s oil pipelines, Tehran’s international book fair as well as scientific, religious and educational centers and other crowded locations in different cities.

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John McCain is an idiot. He knows nothing about foreign policy beyond the talking points he gets from the AEI.

No matter what the question is, he gets it wrong. And no matter how wrong he gets it, the press in this country will always defer to his expertise, just because he was a POW one hell of an irrelevant long ass time ago.

Here’s John McCain saying the U.S. would have to deal with Hamas because they were the elected government of Palestine:

And here is his spokeslady explaining that he never meant it (please don’t turn on me now, Israel Lobby!)

Credit goes to David Shuster for calling her out, but does anyone believe that the lesson of how completely full of shit John McCain is will be able to sink in past the “but gee, he’s a gen-u-ine War Hero” filter in his head for next time?

Deep, deep down in his heart, John McCain believes in Communism (Just so long as he’s the Premiere).

Anyone who believes that “National Service” will be “voluntary” at the end of his first term will find themselves working for free and quite disappointed.

As though the government is a cause greater than me; yeah right.

Thanks to Butler Shaffer.

As was the case with his earlier exchange with John McCain regarding “al Qaeda in Iraq”, Barack Obama was served up a another softball by the Republican Party, and couldn’t hit it out of the park. Hell, Obama barely could bunt back to the pitcher’s mound . When Bush made a thinly veiled reference to Obama during his speech in Israel as an appeaser of terrorists, Obama’s lame response was that he has stated “over and over again that I will not negotiate with terrorists like Hamas.”

Obama could have pointed out the Republican’s long tradition of negotiating and appeasing ‘terrorists’, beginning with Reagan’s selling of TOW missiles to Iran and his quick exit from the quagmire in Lebanon when Hezbollah bombed the Marine barracks. But really, what Obama needed to point out is that similar statements were made about the PLO, which is now considered a “partner in peace”. Yesterday’s terrorist is often tomorrow’s ally.

Obama could also have pointed out the El Salvador example of how a stalemated conflict with ‘terrorists’ can successfully be resolved through negotiations. The right-wing government in El Salvador refused to negotiate with Communist guerillas a.k.a ‘the terrorists’ in the 70s and 80s, believing massive amounts of U.S. military aid would allow them to eradicate the problem by force. But in the 1990s, the Salvadoran government finally decided there was no military solution, and so decided to bring the terrorists to the negotiating table. The result? 16 years of relative peace and prosperity, and the ‘terrorists’ have channeled their anger into trying to win elections, not into sabotage and murder. Israel is in a similar position. Despite the fantasies of the Neocons and Likud, there is no military solution to Hamas or Hezbollah.

Why can’t Obama drive this point home?