What the fuck does "without preconditions" even mean?

[jackshoegazer]

In the Land O' Bush, you must meet certain conditions or we won't even talk to you. They are under some illusion that not talking to America is a punishment and that all of these "bad" countries are just jealously slavering for an opportunity to talk to us. So, if they meet these conditions, then we may talk.

For instance: "Hey, Eye-ran, git rid of your entire nuke-u-lar program We know it's for bombs, so hey, Eye-ran, git rid of it, or we won't even talk to you."

To which Iran says, "Excuse me, America, but our program is for nuclear energy, we are not making nuclear weapons."

To which we respond with our fingers in our ears, "Nannny-nanny-boo-boo, I can't hear you! Ditch your nuke-u-lar ambitions first and then we can talk about it."

"But it's for peaceful energy, not.."

"I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!"

That's preconditions. It's stupid and it doesn't work. It's the diplomatic equivalent of Cartman's "Screw you guys, I'm going home."

P.S. The Sarah Palin Disney Movie

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[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Most voters can't hold two opposing ideas in their heads, so they don't even have the capacity to understand there's something wrong there and that's what I've noticed most hard-Righties count on.

A friend was telling me about getting cornered at a grocery store by a McCain supporter who went off about how Obama wants to take troops from Iraq and send them to Afghanistan so we can attack Israel but Obama doesn't even support the troops and how Obama is going to overturn Roe V Wade and -AND- make third-trimester abortions legal. Hello? WTF, everybody?!?!

[katachthonios.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can tell these types is to write in Ron Paul.