Yeah, Right, Whatever

Psych! The enlightened ones who want more understanding and less detonating have a new petition- this one to encourage the Bush Administration not to bomb Iran into the Stone Age just because Mad Mahmud wants his own personal toy nuke.

Dear President Bush and Vice President Cheney,

We write to you from all over the United States and all over the world to urge you to obey both international and U.S. law, which forbid aggressive attacks on other nations. We oppose your proposal to attack Iran. Iran does not possess nuclear weapons, just as Iraq did not possess nuclear weapons. If Iran had such weapons, that would not justify the use of force, any more than any other nation would be justified in launching a war against the world's greatest possesor of nuclear arms, the United States. The most effective way to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons would be to closely monitor its nuclear energy program, and to improve diplomatic relations -- two tasks made much more difficult by threatening to bomb Iranian territory. We urge you to lead the way to peace, not war, and to begin by making clear that you will not commit the highest international crime by aggressively attacking Iran.

So far, they have a few thousand submissions, and some of the comments are... priceless... One person even suggested eliminating all of the Bush supporters (Elaine, #4860). Fortunately for her, someone pointed out that the Bush supporters are the ones with the guns.

They honestly think that the President wants to go to war... again. Yeah... he just loves the idea of putting our military at risk... it's a big rush for him, I'm sure. Then again, they think that signing an on-line petition, referring to him as a criminal and calling for "regime change" in the United States is the way to get the Administration to take them seriously.

Good luck with that. Really.