Daily Kos Kid Claims to Leak Iran Attack Plan
Sun, Sep 2, 2007 at 4:29:41 pm PDT
Now we have a Kos Kid who claims to have received information about an impending US sneak attack on Iran, from “a friend” who’s a female Naval officer: Daily Kos: ‘We Are Going To Hit Iran. Bigtime’.
As the Kos Kid tells it, this “Naval officer” is so deranged with Bush hatred that she can’t even think of anything wrong with Iran having nuclear weapons.
“I have become cynical only recently. I also don’t believe anyone will be able to stop this. Bush has become something of an Emperor. He will give the command, and cruise missiles will fly and aircraft will fly and people will die, and yet few of us here are really able to cobble together a great explanation of why this is a good idea. Of course many of us can give you the 4H Club lecture on democracy in the Mid East. But if you asked any of the flight officers whether they have a clear idea of what the goal of this strike is, your answer would sound like something out of a think tank policy paper. But it’s not like Kosovo or when we relieved the tsunami victims. There everyone could tell you in a sentence what we were here doing.”
“That’s what’s missing. A real sense of purpose. What’s missing is the answer to what the hell are we doing out here threatening this country with all this power? Last night in the galley, an ensign asked what right do we have to tell a sovereign nation that they can’t build a nuke. I mean the table got EF Hutton quiet. Not so much because the man was asking a question that was off culture. But that he was asking a good question. In fact, the discussion actually followed afterwards topside where someone in our group had to smoke a cigarette. The discussion was intelligent but also in lowered voices. It’s like we aren’t allowed to ask the questions that we always ask before combat. It’s almost as if the average seaman or soldier is doing all the policy work.”
The Kos Kommunity is really overheating on this one; there are more than 1,300 comments and it’s been on the recommended list for more than 24 hours.
The story goes on and on, and to say it’s implausible is an understatement. If true, it would be high treason to post such a thing at Daily Kos, but almost none of the commenters seem to realize this, or care.
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UPDATE at 9/2/07 4:43:59 pm:
Kommandante Markos reprimands his acolytes: Daily Kos: Don’t believe everything you read on the internets.
UPDATE at 9/2/07 7:24:02 pm:
This diary post has now been deleted, along with 1,366 comments: Daily Kos: ‘We Are Going To Hit Iran. Bigtime’.
UPDATE at 9/2/07 7:45:47 pm:
The Kos Kidz are beating their breasts tonight:
Daily Kos: I rec’d Maccabee’s diary. So what?
Daily Kos: Enough is Enough — Stop faith-based diaries.
