Gir Draxon
leftist-rightie and rightist-leftie
Babbler # 3804
posted 20 October 2004 11:57 PM
quote:Tehran — The head of Iran's security council said Tuesday that the re-election of U.S. President Bush was in Tehran's best interests, despite the administration's axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbours al-Qaeda terrorists and threats of sanctions over the country's nuclear ambitions.
quote:Mr. Mofidi added that “Democrats usually insist on human rights and they will have more excuses to pressure Iran.
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Fidel
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Babbler # 5594
posted 21 October 2004 12:02 AM
And if it weren't for all this death and destruction caused by Shrub junior and company, I'd endorse them, too. They're driving the rest of the world further to the left.
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aRoused
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Babbler # 1962
posted 21 October 2004 06:36 AM
The endorsements by Putin and now Iran are interesting in light of how up-in-arms Ohio voters seem to be getting about that Guardian initiative to dialogue with them about their next choice of president.
Apparently it's evil and BAD for citizens of trusted allies to talk to Americans about their vote, but Iranian clerics for Bush doesn't get the American voter all freaked out.
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BleedingHeart
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Babbler # 3292
posted 21 October 2004 01:11 PM
After four more years of Bush, Amerikan society may start to resemble Iran.
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CMOT Dibbler
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Babbler # 4117
posted 21 October 2004 06:15 PM
Why would the Iranian government endorse a man who wants to bomb Iran back into the stone age?
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Michelle
Moderator
Babbler # 560
posted 21 October 2004 06:36 PM
Good question, CMOT. I'm wondering if it's a "reverse psychology" thing, myself.
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WingNut
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Babbler # 1292
posted 21 October 2004 07:17 PM
I think they are serious. They see in Bush a mirror image. Religious fucking wackos dedicated to bringing about armageddeon. The war of civilizations. Holy war.
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Fidel
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 5594
posted 21 October 2004 08:04 PM
Let's see ... Iran's leaders tell the people that they are allied with God, but so do the Republicon's tell bible belter's the same thing.
Ayatolla Khamenei promises the people social justice for all, but conflict with its neighbors means that social democracy must be put on hold indefinitely. The Republicrats tend to tell American's something similar about colonialism being needed now, but just wait until capitalism spreads prosperity to its enemies and despotic, third world friendlies.
You're right, there are similarities. Both Allah and God are little more than cheer leaders for Tehran and Washington.
The Associated Press article carefully omits that statement.
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BLAKE 3:16
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Babbler # 2978
posted 21 October 2004 08:52 PM
I just read the absolutely fascinating Takeover in Tehran written by Massoumeh Ebtekar, one of the US embassy hostage takers and a Iranian government official. She describes the ways in which the Iranian fundamentalists were both very pragmatic about exploiting cntradictions of US politics. She says there's no difference between the Republicans and Democrats and were glad to bring Carter down. In many ways Kerry's multilateralism and freetrading is more a threat to the Iranian leadership than a hopeless invasion.
Bush is a social conservative AND has done a wonderful job of uniting radical Islam.
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WingNut
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Babbler # 1292
posted 21 October 2004 09:07 PM
Social conservative? I think he goes beyond that. I think he thinks he is the one social conservative pray for. More discerning christians might call him the false prophet.
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