I’m coming back this afternoon with a lengthy post, but in the meantime, I direct you to this, the Dumbest Daily Kos Diary Ever. In this highly recommended piece by LondonYank (if that’s his real name), we learn that the Kos community is just wild about Iran:

Prime Minister Olmert is hinting about strikes on Iran and will meet with President Bush today. Israel still wants the United States to attack Iran, regardless of the interests of the American people or the peaceful intentions (Editor’s note: That is not a joke) of Iran itself.

Saddam had achieved almost universal adult literacy and Baghdadi meant "wealthy"in Arabic slang when his administration became a target for devastating sanctions and war. Lebanon had rebuilt a vibrant economy, drawing large numbers of sophisticated young professionals, when it was bombed back to the stone age this summer. Iran's educational progress and economic scale now invite our wrath and destruction.

Iran must be attacked soon to prevent it becoming an examplar of economic progress and a regional power, and the plan is to permanently impoverish Iranians by stealing their oil wealth.

Certainly Iran is not an ideal state, but it is no where near as bad as many others. The example of Iran as a paradigm for regional development is the real threat.

Iran has invested its oil wealth in universal education, healthcare, infrastructure bringing clean water and electricity to more than 98 percent of its people, and economic progress. Military spending is a paltry $91 per capita compared to more than $1,500 per capita in the United States and Israel. The social and economic achievements of the revolutionary regime in Iran in the past 25 years look quite progressive in reducing poverty and social inequalities, and as the society liberalises toward a more secular democratic regime, even better progress can be expected in the future. Compared to rising inequality in the United States and Israel, ranked numbers one and two for social inequality among developed nations, the Iranians look pretty damn good.

Oh lordy. These guys and their equally obtuse allies now control Congress. The horror.

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