Gary Hart Still Monkeying Around

From Hart's The October Surprise at The Huffington Post.

It should come as no surprise if the Bush Administration undertakes a preemptive war against Iran sometime before the November election.

He goes on to suggest that Special Forces are already on the ground refining target data. Thank you, Gary - I'm certain if true, they will greatly appreciate your pointing it out to the world.

Hart's ship sailed long before we had to endure much of his Monkey Business. When we tackle Iran's nuclear ambitions isn't a matter for political debate, it's a matter of strategic timing. As I posted yesterday, we appear to already have begun deployment of naval resources necessary for a military strike. That can serve as a signal Iran would be smart to heed, or the initial step in an inevitable confrontation due to Iran's refusal to abide with world opinion and a Security Council resolution.

To read Hart, you'd think the Bush administration has not and is not still attempting to resolve this diplomatically. What is it cabin monkey Hart would have us do? Allow Israel to do all the heavy lifting so we and the world can condemn them for doing what it is the world actually wants?

Egypt is now entertaining a nuclear program and Saudi Arabia has also make reference to such a plan. They don't want to squander resources building atomic bombs. It is simply their way of saying a nuclear Iran will have a steeper price than the pacifists and Liberals would have us believe.

Were Hart a patriot before he was a Democrat, he'd have nothing to say on this matter. I question the timing of his editorial, more than the deployment of US military force. Iran has sent several such messages through war games and missile tests. I didn't see cabin monkey Hart say a word. He must be angling for the NSA if a Dem is elected President in 2008, God forbid.

Hart's opinions are less interesting and compelling than his stupidity, displayed in a game of grab ass on a yacht after challenging the press to check him out ... after similar rumors had surfaced at the very time he wanted to be President. Yes, it's judgment like that I want to rely on at a time of threat.

You blew it, Gary - or Donna did, who cares. But with it went your chance to arm chair quaretback and second guess. Go back to Colorado and teach a class, I doubt you've done enough of that to earn your salary. Leave world affairs to individuals with enough seriousness and focus to manage them. You couldn't even manage to keep it in your pants when it mattered the most. One can only imagine what a disaster you would have been had you ever gained the Presidency.

You opted for a cruise and a little Money Business instead of being Head of State. Too bad ... but it was your choice. Your judgment doesn't look any better today than it did way back then.

Comments

[Karl]

Time has been flogging the naval deployment story, too. A submarine blogger says it's really not a big deal:

http://bubbleheads.blogspot.com/2006/09/time-magazine-scare-mongers.html

[Felix]

"Were Hart a patriot before he was a Democrat, he'd have nothing to say on this matter."

How very true!

Real patriots offer no opinions. Real patriots follow blindly.

This is not the time for debating any possible action against Iran. The time for that debate will be 50 years from now when historians make their judgment.

The Bush administration makes its own reality. The only thing the rest of us should do is watch in shock and awe. That's real patriotism. Gary Hart could learn a few lessons by reading the Riehl World.

[Steel Turman]

I see this and the stridency of Bill's attempts at rewriting history, the pile-on Chavez by Pelosi and Rangel and the general lack of direction in the DNC as evidence the Donks are runnin' scared.

They know they have little chance in this election and not much chance in '08.

I blame Karl Rove.

[Layer Seven]

Please do not send Gary Hart back to Colorado.

We have waste disposal problems enough.

[Dave In Texas]

While anon's reaction is a bit extreme, it raises a valid point: Hart's speculation about special ops troops already being on the ground is to be condemned; your statements about naval deployment for a military strike is just sound analsysis?

Hypocrite.

[Dan Riehl]

your statements about naval deployment for a military strike is just sound analsysis? Hypocrite.

Moron. In the first place, it was published in The Nation - see the link. In the second place, you don't thin radar can pick up a flotilla of ships? The ship deployment isn't a secret and isn't akin to a few special ops types squatting in the desert. I wish some of you would engage a brain before you start calling names.

[anon]

"Moron. In the first place, it was published in The Nation - see the link. "

Moron, Gary Hart said only what others, including Sam Gardiner, have been stating for quite some time. Why do you hate your brain?

[tony orlando international airport]

He hates his brain for the same reason most conservatives hate their dicks. Too small.

[jamie]

What is it about you neocons and your obsession with everyone's sex life? I mean, debate Hart on the issues, but what the hell does Hart's long-ago affair with a bimbo have to do with anything he says today? Do you people really have that difficult a time getting laid, or what?

[ajay]

So, when talking about military deployments, it's OK to repeat what's already been printed in the Nation, because the secret's already out there. But it's not OK to repeat what's already been printed in the New Yorker (among other places), because.... er... Iranians don't read the New Yorker?

[Michael V.Sherlock]

All you wonderful believers in the AMERICAN SYSTEM should take a little time to study the laws and principles of this once beautiful country. Your angry and violent outbursts against this great and accomplished man are simply disgusting. Wish that any one of you could achieve a tenth of what he has done.I have followed this career with great interest and I have never seen or heard from the media any reference to photographs of illicit goings on unless you do gooders think a woman sitting on his knee is immoral.' My greatest privelege is that I am an American. That means that no man or woman can tell me what to believe. No minister, priest or rabbi or imam can dictate my political principles------Our founders knew that we would be governed by fallible people because it is only from fallible people that we can select our leaders"