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[mithridates]

[keane]

[keane]

[Big_Bird]

[keane]

[Gopher]

[Pluto]

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=78998031-0f41-4fc8-bfd2-2fe5496dceb7&p=Source_NBC%20News%20Web%20Extra&t=m5&rf=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/&fg=

He's a populist. But where is he taking his country? Economic stagnation( he controls the banks' interest rates and gives out money as if it grew on trees) and stronger military postures from the West. I doubt these are what Iranians want; I get the feeling Iranians want warmer ties with the West. Yet this simplistic sycophant wants rattle his saber and provoke Western nations. What is the strategic thinking behind Iran's leadership?

The president of a nation who considers me the Great Satan. He can go F@%&* himself.

[Gopher]

Agreed.

And he has been personally intervening in American domestic politics for sometime. I find this especially ironic given the nature of his complaints about America.

He also challenged W. Bush to debate him. Diplomacy does not get more adversarial than that.

I expect little more to result from this than another Chavez-like United-Nations diatribe against the Great Satan. I would wager that he will not even be able to sit still while Bollinger asks his "hard questions" -- and I would wager even more that he will not answer them directly or satisfactorily, either.

[cerulean808]

The US government has aided and abetted plenty of cruel tyrants, so the lack of democracy and human rights violations can't be reasons for the American Crazies' hysterical demonisation of the Iranian regime.

No, what has got them going is that Iran is a regional power that is wrestling with the super power the US for dominance in the Middle East.

[spliff]

Ok, maybe I need a good thwacking with the Imperial Cluebat but I can�t understand the triangulation that these leftards come up with. You invite a genocidal maniac that:

1. Executes homosexuals
2. Oppresses and beats women
3. Mandates state religion and education
4. Advocates foreign adventures
5. Outlaws abortion
6. Supports the death penalty

What am I missing here? I thought the Evil Bush/Hitler Regime are the ones who did this?

[Pluto]

[cerulean808]

Yeah gruesome, like what so many US sponsored monsters have done and then some. So its not because of Iran's 'value system' that the US has an axe to grind with them.

Oh yeah, how many innocent poor blacks in America have been cooked in the electric chair or rot away in prison, you like to collect pictures of them too, Pluto?

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

[Gopher]

They [Iranian government officials and religious leaders post-1979] seize our embassy in Tehran and call us "the Great Satan," jump into state-sponsored terrorism with ops in Western Europe and South America, help Hezbollah bomb the Marine barracks and American embassy in 1983, blackmail us over hostages through the 1980s, kidnap, torture, and murder Colonel Higgins in Beirut...the list goes on...they presently seek nuclear weapons, for example, likely related to their quest to establish a Middle-Eastern sphere-of-influence (that is, "empire"), delete the Holocaust from our historical memory, and rework the map so Israel does not appear on it anymore...and, in any case, we are guilty of demonizing them? ROFL.

[keane]