― rock u like a � (ex machina), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
The problem being, the Iranian leadership's worldview is even MORE apocalyptic then Bush's. They're like, the Pat Robertsons of Islam.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Iran and the Us are much alike. big democracies, both with faults in their democratic process. Both with a history of state sponsorship of terror (Iran with hezbollah and in Iraq now, the US all over south america in the past, in afghanistan in the 80s the hot wars could be called terror as well). Both have a strong religious leaning, both are naturally conservative with a very dynamic youth culture.
Think about it. No matter how you can point to how the Iranians gerrymandered their last election, a hell of a lot of people voted for Amedinhejad. They made a choice.
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
*tho i don't think the latter is likely to happen.
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/iran/
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Ed (dal...), September 21st, 2006.
Sure, and I guess the Constitution isn't that different from the Koran either.
We're stretching things a little though, aren't we?
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
If a certain elite holds the ultimate veto power on anything and everything, how could their system be described as democracy? it would be oligrachy.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 22 September 2006 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/lindorff
― schwantz (schwantz), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 22 September 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Venga (Venga), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
1. America sending warships to the Middle East (shocking)2. Partisan hacks denouncing Bush
I'm not convinced.
― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 22 September 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Strained, Army Looks to Guard for More Relief
By THOM SHANKER and MICHAEL R. GORDONWASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — Strains on the Army from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have become so severe that Army officials say they may be forced to make greater use of the National Guard to provide enough troops for overseas deployments.
― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 22 September 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
is it too much to ask generals not to obey their orders? is that a remote possibility?
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
i have long felt as though, through its actions, the bush administration have effectively been waging a kind of proxy war against americans, because they've made us all considerably *less* safe for generations. if they do anything to iran you can be sure this will get much worse.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 September 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Friday, 22 September 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 22 September 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
wow.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 23 September 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Saturday, 23 September 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Saturday, 23 September 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link