Both Obama and Bush urge Israel to sign the NPT without acknowleging that Israel has nukes. Hmmm... Why do they hate us?
Obama: "…as far as Israel goes, I'm not going to comment on their [nuclear] program ... we have urged all countries to become members of the NPT. ... That's been a consistent position of the United States government, even prior to my administration."
QUESTION: Does the United States, then, feel that the Israeli nuclear program, which is now out -- Avner Cohen has written a full book on it, Mordechai Vanunu spent 18 years in jail because of it. It's obvious that they do have such a nuclear program. Does the United States consider that that's absolutely essential to Israel's security?
BOUCHER: I'm not making judgments or presumptions about that. We've had a view on the universal adherence to the Non-Proliferation Treaty that we've expressed many times, that applies in all cases.
QUESTION: But Israel is not a member, has refused to be a member. BOUCHER: That's right. We encourage all nations to be members and adhere to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
At U of Md - today
"It's my hope that if we're aggressive over the next several years, we can substantially cut our energy use in every sector while still maintaining our high levels of economic growth. So, for example, at the announcement where I talked about offshore drilling, I did so in front of an F-18, a fighter jet, that is actually going to be run half on biomass."
"If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up."
-- Woody Allan
Eugene Robinson writes in the Washington Post today:
The arrests of members of a Michigan-based "Christian" militia group should convince doubters that there is good reason to worry about right-wing, anti-government extremism -- and potential violence -- in the Age of Obama. I put the word Christian in quotes because anyone who plots to assassinate law enforcement officers, as a federal indictment alleges members of the Hutaree militia did, is no follower of Christ.
So why do people call George W. Bush and Barack Obama "Christian" -- without the quote marks -- as they bomb people in Afghanistan. Are they followers of Jesus Christ? It's unchristian to kill law enforcement officials, but is to kill innocent civilians?
Massive terrorism, of the sort that the U.S. government engages in, is the great terrorism threat. Calling the Hutaree militia alleged Christian terrorists should be a step to understanding that.