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In reply to the discussion: Why are DUers buying into this crap about Iran from the corporate media? [View all]Lawlbringer
(550 posts)1. I haven't seen many around here
who applaud the sabre rattling. I can't even remember the last time someone posted news on the "conflict" and didn't add a measure of sarcasm along with it.
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Why are DUers buying into this crap about Iran from the corporate media? [View all]
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2012
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It's pathetic. It's almost a kind of "willful Alzheimer's", if you will, when looking at our
bullwinkle428
Apr 2012
#4
The ones that buy the crap are diverse, there are those that need to be led and so
Dragonfli
Apr 2012
#9
then again, it's not like Bush, Obama, Cheney, Clinton, etc., etc. would suddenly realize how human
MisterP
Apr 2012
#45
Here is a lecture by Rick Steve's on Brasscheck TV, I'm not sure if it's the one you're thinking of
polly7
Apr 2012
#28
Yes, and I've noticed in the last few years that stories about human rights abuses in Iran
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2012
#29
If you can, bet money on it, and then tell me where so I can lay some $$ down, too.
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2012
#47
Yeah not too long ago I believed Iran was building up a nuclear weapons program
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#23
Erect bogeyman. Wave flag. Send in the assassins, drones, bombers. Demand more money for the MIC.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Apr 2012
#34
The built up fear of Iran promoted by the corporate media is ridiculous to the point of absurdity.
Uncle Joe
Apr 2012
#35
Americans are astoundingly ignorant of the histories and cultures of other countries
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2012
#43