Janet Jackson as a WMD

$75 million emergency request... for Iran!?!?

Condoleeza Rice urges Congress to dig even deeper into its pockets and fish out a mere $75 million to meddle in the affairs of Iran. The costs include expanding some sort of "propaganda" war to fuel an internal rising against the Iranian government. Funds would be used to build upon more radio stations and TV broadcasts to hopefully topple and change the Iranian government. Further on, another $100 million to promote "democracy" in Iran...

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), who has called for $100 million to promote democracy in Iran, applauded the initiative as the "absolutely right move at this point in time." Although some Iranian activists have criticized the administration for moving too slowly to support them, Brownback said the administration had been "very methodical" in fighting terrorism. "The first step was Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now you're seeing an increasing focus on Iran.

Methodical!?!?! (#**#(*$&*!!! *($&(*(*$^^%%@$!!!!

We actually spent 3.5 million a year in past years for this "program". Approximately $10 million was already set aside for this.

But wait! some actual intelligence:
But Martin S. Indyk, a Clinton administration official who now heads the Saban Center on Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, said the democratic forces the administration wants to support have failed in the past to take on the clerics and have little basis of support -- and would be tainted by U.S. aid. "It's hard to see how $75 million makes a dent in that political reality," Indyk said

Cons:
1. Have we not just spent $250 billion on another nation to promote "democracy"?

2.There was this other thing called Katrina that happened awhile ago too....

Pros:
1. We can fish out and finally make use of the Superbowl scandel of Janet Jackson from the FCC vaults, transmit that, and say "look! this is how free the United States is!"

2. I guess after screwing up in Iraq, a war through the airwaves won't lose you any troops