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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 08:06 PM
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Iran has a right to self defense. ... interesting read.
Edited on Sun Jun-04-06 08:07 PM by cantstandbush
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_836.shtml


“While claiming to be protecting the world from proliferation threats in Iraq, Libya, Iran and North Korea, American leaders not only have abandoned existing treaty restraints but also have asserted plans to test and develop new weapons, including anti-ballistic missiles, the earth-penetrating "bunker buster" and perhaps some new "small" bombs. They also have abandoned past pledges and now threaten first use of nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states.” Former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter. <1>

The U.S. and Israel are in the process of manufacturing a “crisis” to justify a war of aggression against Iran in flagrant violations of international law and norms. The current crisis is reminiscent to the crisis which was manufactured to justify the illegal war of aggression against a defenceless Iraq.

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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 08:08 PM
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1. Islamist hogwash!
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LaPera Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 08:21 PM
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4. Pretty racist statement, care to elaborate, or let's just blow another
Edited on Sun Jun-04-06 08:22 PM by LaPera
oil rich country off the face of the earth...because Bush wants to...BushCo's track record is a perfect 100% when it comes to lying...So who do you believe?
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 08:48 PM
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5. Neither side, actually.
Iran's government are not nice guys. But that hardly calls for a war.

And no, there isn't a damn thing racist about what I said. Islamist does NOT = Islamic.
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Terran1212 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 08:09 PM
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2. Noam Chomsky said
That if Iran follows the same doctine as Bush it could bomb us right now -- because we are a very overt threat to them and "pre-emptive" action would be "justified"
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 08:13 PM
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3. Pretty much puts it in a nutshell. n/t
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