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- meetmeineleusis, on 06/25/2009, -5/+61here's to hoping some enterprising young Iranian drags a straight razor across this pig's gullet.
- CrazedLeper, on 06/26/2009, -7/+28They're waterboarding?! Those monsters!! Oh, wait...
- Number23, on 06/26/2009, -3/+22Boy all this stuff about North Korea and Iran lately, it’s like they’re an axis of evil or something!
- Seafea, on 06/26/2009, -3/+19How disgusting.
I'm proud to be an American, where we would never stoop to torture.
Wait... *****. - Ranzera, on 06/26/2009, -0/+16I don't know what anyone expects America to do. We would help the most by keeping our noses out of the situation altogether. This is for the Iranians and their government to sort out.
- ConnisKasman, on 06/26/2009, -3/+18Your comment leads me to believe you have absolutely no idea about the situation.
- pathouston22, on 06/26/2009, -4/+17Oh lookie, its the blame America game!
- inactive, on 06/26/2009, -0/+12Last time I checked, it was "The Great Satan."
- xshare, on 06/26/2009, -3/+14And what, exactly, would you (or the people you listen to) have Obama do? Because really, it's either this or war with Iran. Pick one. Sanctions are ***** and counterproductive, as would be Obama mouthing off with "forceful words" to Iran. If nothing changes regardless of what Obama does short of actually going to war with Iran, then what exactly can he do?
- Ascus, on 06/26/2009, -2/+13The propaganga is getting thick. I am sure they are just using advanced interrogation techniques.
- T8erT0T, on 06/26/2009, -1/+11See: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Don't See: Darfur, Sudan, Republic of Congo... - T8erT0T, on 06/26/2009, -2/+12You joke, but we'll hear it on Fox news soon enough.
- durruticolumn, on 09/18/2009, -1/+10
Iran is playing in very dangerous territory. You can get away with this kind of thing easily when the "opposition" is isolated student groups or a smalled armed militant faction. But the opposition in Iran right now ranges from the former Prime Minister, numerous Grand Ayatollahs, high ranking leadership of the Republican Guard, to student groups, women's groups, unions, etc.
It would be like the FBI waterboarding Colin Powell on behalf of Dick Cheney. - inactive, on 06/26/2009, -1/+9um, yeah....
Iran has been putting teenage women to death for having sex. For decades they have been abusing human rights. I'm glad you just woke up when the Iranian vote was--shockingly--rigged. Who would think a theocracy would rig the vote?
Let's talk Saudi Arabia sometime, shall we? Or the 300+ people that died in Iraq this past week from violence?
The point is, you could spend every single day talking about injustice in the world and people will always focus on what matters to them. Because, at the end of it all, you're only here for a short period of time. People will go see Transformers, or wait in line for the newest iPhone. Right now, for me personally, the guy that made Off the Wall and Thriller is just a little more important than a bunch of people that *refuse* to give up a system of law and government based on a ***** religion.
You reap what you sow. They choose the system, and now they are suffering the consequences of that system. If they want to move to a secular society, then we can show them the way. But so far, there is no evidence they want such a thing. - MikeOxbigg, on 06/26/2009, -4/+11Do you even know what the lipstick analogy was or what its usage means or are you just regurgitating O'Reilly?
- EddiePotato, on 06/26/2009, -1/+8Information and the exchange of ideas are still uncontrolled in the US. What the news doesn't tell us, we can still tell each other without fear of persecution. It's been accurately said that, as a neural network the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. IF the government ever takes that ability away, then talk of revolution might make sense, but until then we are still a free society by definition, and our problems can be dealt with in a civilized fashion.
- Ranzera, on 06/26/2009, -2/+9@ URnotheonly1
You have no idea what progress is do you? The only reason this reformist upswing is even occurring is because we aren't acting like we'll go to war on a hair trigger. If we allied ourselves with any side, it would demonize that side because, lets face it, we are for all intents and purposes the bad guys to them.
Staying out of the way is the only way we can help those people. - EddiePotato, on 06/26/2009, -3/+10Obama is one of the primary reasons for the impending revolution in Iran. Bush's "axis of evil" stance unified the factions there against what they perceived as a common enemy: the US. Just like when 9/11 gave Bush a 90% approval rating; we stopped our infighting for a while to focus on an external threat.
By reducing the perception that they are being threatened from without, Obama has helped embolden the reformist movement in Iran to the point of action. If he were to intervene directly in the situation there, he'd only reverse the progress he's already made. - insanebrain, on 06/26/2009, -1/+7"The Busher"
- schroeder, on 06/27/2009, -0/+6It's never just for anyone to torture.
- Ne007, on 06/26/2009, -1/+6what's that? China you say? what? I can't hear you...LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA!!! I'm not sure what u are saying.
- inactive, on 06/26/2009, -3/+8The goings on in Iran is none of our business. We don't want to be considered at meddling. The only time human-rights are important is when we can secure some votes by exploiting it.
- IphtashuFitz, on 06/26/2009, -0/+5s/votes/oil/
But even then human rights run a distant second. - gdog05, on 06/26/2009, -3/+8He uses torture and is labeled "The Butcher". I wonder what our nickname is.
- ottolenz, on 06/27/2009, -0/+5What should America do? Well Obama should fix the Problems in the USA and not in Iran, he is the president of USA not of the World, live with it.
- sumeetg, on 06/27/2009, -0/+4Obama has handled this perfectly, except for an official condemnation, he has kept the United States out of Iranian affairs. If the Iranian people want a change in government they will have to organize and fight for it.
- postal38sp, on 06/26/2009, -0/+4wow, way to connect Butcher A+ plus work.
- IphtashuFitz, on 06/26/2009, -3/+7I think people like Mortazavi do a tad bit more than waterboarding. Think Medieval-style torture with modern-day technology.
- altgeeky1, on 06/26/2009, -1/+4You're right, but still you've been modded down, by chickenhawks.
- stsvatos, on 06/26/2009, -0/+3Modded up..
Exactly Right. Getting involved would be a bad idea. We need to let the Iranian people make their own choices. If we get involved we will again be viewed as meddlers (and we unfortunately are already disliked enough in the world) - woahwoahwoah, on 06/27/2009, -0/+3What's up with right-wingers and their obsession with calling Obama the Chosen One? They appear to perceive reality through a fun house mirror, where anything supposedly anti-Republican is immediately biased.
- TyIsOwned, on 06/26/2009, -1/+4No one is going to form a revolution. We keep taking everything in stride.
- wright3279, on 06/26/2009, -0/+3Do you reckon he goes to the extreme by waterboarding? Surely nothing worse.
- inactive, on 06/26/2009, -2/+5Where have I heard that before?
- alienufo, on 06/26/2009, -2/+5ahhh, FRESH MEAT!
- algaeturd, on 06/27/2009, -0/+3Torture? As an American, I condemn any such thing. I'm glad I'm from a country where we would never even CONSIDER torture as a way to intimidate others or to get people to do what we want.
/s - inactive, on 06/26/2009, -0/+3The "Butcher"? This man must be wild with a blade, hook, or rope! For what do they need to take such measures? I am glad to have left the country in 1983 when the nation was strong. I fear for my family members who stayed behind in Iran when my immediate family left.
- THEKapnobatai, on 06/27/2009, -0/+2You can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill a revolution
- tonsiljuggler, on 06/27/2009, -0/+2"Just" torture.
Right. - blakeage, on 06/26/2009, -3/+5What is this, Gangs of New York?
- drcrank, on 06/29/2009, -0/+2Sounds like they've got themselves a regular Don Rumsfeld, there.
- SpinningHead, on 06/26/2009, -0/+2True, but water-boarding was started by the Italian Inquisition.
- altgeeky1, on 06/26/2009, -3/+5I think SlowFreshOil is suggesting we invade and occupy Iran, and HE is willing to run point on the whole thing and charge the machine gun nests.
Oh wait, he wasn't?
Then what the hell is SlowFreshOil's plan, exactly? - pagno, on 06/27/2009, -0/+2If youll notice, I said the Media, meaning all of the above. Fox is just more blatant about it than any other.
- NozE8, on 06/27/2009, -0/+2"DO YOU NOT SEE ANY DIFFERENCE ?"
Probably a few hours late on this one, and you probably wont see the reply, but no I don't see any difference at all. You can attempt to dehumanize this "al quada *****" to rationalize it in your mind all you want. The fact remains that these are human beings and no human being deserves to be tortured. Ever. - mandarin, on 06/26/2009, -2/+4His days are numbered. The people are already revolting
- EddiePotato, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1@rbiii
How hard will it be for you to pull yourself away from the tendency to stereotype people based on very little information? I didn't even vote for Obama, and have my doubts about him in some regards.
But Karim Sadjadpour, former chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group, based in Tehran and Washington, D.C., and current political analyst for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, talked at length recently on NPR about the positive effect Obama's stance has had on the situation. What he was saying makes a lot of sense. You don't need to be an O-man "fan boy" to appreciate cause and effect. - JimintheOC, on 06/26/2009, -1/+2You are so right... Now if we could just start shooting protesters in the streets the world will all be better.
- pigfister, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_B51Q0XBNY
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