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Netanyahu’s Audience For Cartoon Bomb Graphic Is Dumb Sheeple, Not World Leaders
A collection of reactions to Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations on Thursday, September 27, 2012:
“I complimented him on his address at the United Nations,” Romney said.
“I suggested that his graphic was not up to the normal Boston Consulting
Group standards.” Pausing, he added, “No, I didn’t actually do that,
but I was thinking that.” – “Romney talks about longtime friend Netanyahu, jokes about bomb graphic,” Yahoo News, September 28, 2012.
“The heart of Netanyahu’s address, of course, was his remarks about the
Islamic Republic and its nuclear program. By now, most people who might
read this have, we are sure, already seen footage of Netanyahu
deploying his Looney Tunes-like drawing of a cylindrical bomb with a
hand-lit fuse, 25 minutes into the video linked above. (For those who
were too dumbstruck by the absurdity of his visual aid to take in easily
its intended message, Netanyahu pointed out, “This is a bomb. This is a
fuse.”) Bottom line, Netanyahu holds that the United States
should commit to bombing Iranian nuclear facilities before the
International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran has stockpiled
enough uranium enriched the near-20 percent level so that, if it
reconfigured its centrifuges and put its 20-percent enriched uranium
back through those centrifuges, it might be able to produce enough
weapons-grade fissile material to fabricate a single nuclear weapon.” -Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, “Ahmadinejad and Netanyahu on the Iranian Nuclear Issue at the UN General Assembly,” September 28, 2012.
“Someone (Bibi himself?) in the day and age of Powerpoint presentations,
thought of the great idea of sending their boss up to the lectern of the
world’s most respected international body with a sharpie and a cartoon
version of a nuclear bomb. I suppose they thought the simplicity of the
gesture might impress. Instead it’s backfired as any simpleton
could’ve told them it would.” – Richard Silverstein, “Beeb E. Coyote,” September 27, 2012.
“I know that the subject is serious; that is just one reason why the
graphic, which he apparently made at Kinkos, is so ridiculous. And if
Israeli intelligence thinks that’s what a real bomb looks like, maybe
their other projections are off as well. I’m surprised he could get that
thing past U.N. security.” – The New Yorker, “Netanyahu Caption Contest,” September 27, 2012.
“The ticking-bomb theme, which has been used to justify everything from
torture to the invasion of Iraq, permeates Israeli propaganda in the US
and was a cental theme of Bibi’s speech. His message was clear: “the
hour is getting late.” We must act without giving too much thought to
the possible consequences. Don’t delay, don’t think, act now – before the fraud is exposed, and we discover that – as in the case of the Iraqis – those “weapons of mass destruction” were just a figment of our easily manipulated collective imagination.” – Justin Raimondo, “Bibi’s Crazy UN Speech,” September 28, 2012.
2012-09-29 22:57:24
Source: http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/09/netanyahus-audience-for-cartoon-bomb.html
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