Iran has launched a rocket into space carrying a cargo of living creatures -- a rat, two turtles, and some worms.
The Iranian Aerospace Organization said live video transmission from the latest launching would “enable further studies on the biological capsule” that was carrying the rat, turtles and worms, Press TV reported.
The White House believes Ahmedinejad is out to provoke us with his space turtles.
"A launch like that is obviously a provocative act," White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters.
"But the president believes that it is not too late for Iran to do the right thing -- come to the table with the international community and live up to its international obligations."
Iran has an international obligation not to threaten the U.S. and Israel with turtles of mass destruction (TMD).
In the meantime, some of the more colorfully insane American yahoos, such as Prof. Daniel Pipes of the Harvard University history dept., are pushing for us to start bombing Iran right now. James Wolcott reports:
In a desperate attempt to draw attention to himself and re-energize his enfeebled persona, Daniel Pipes, whose Mephistophelean beard burns with the zeal of a thousand evil suns, proposes that Obama perk up his presidency by bombing Iran (h/t wonkette). Sure, people would die and a military strike would set off convulsions in the region, but it would "make the netroots squeal...and conservatives swoon," and that's really what it's all about, from the beard's perspective.
No wonder Harvard's endowments have dropped off the past few years.
Space Turtle painting by Ali Spagnola.
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