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stockholmer

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9. false choice, I never said the regime was a just one, but I AM a progressive who opposes the march
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 03:06 PM
Feb 2012

to an UNJUST war based on falsehoods perpetrated by serial con artists who serve deeper, more nefarious reasons and masters.

It would be one thing for Sahimi to join in propagandizing against the Iranian regime... DCKit Feb 2012 #1
Sahimi is completely anti-war, he despises the RW neo-con chickenhawks, et al (I guess I was unclear stockholmer Feb 2012 #2
I wasn't arguing, simply pointing out the possible consequences. DCKit Feb 2012 #3
There you go again, injecting logic and reality into a topic that is neither Hugabear Feb 2012 #4
I don't understand. JDPriestly Feb 2012 #5
You do realize there are Jews serving in Iran's parliament Hugabear Feb 2012 #6
Yes. I am very aware of that. JDPriestly Feb 2012 #21
he did not call for it, the mp3 interview explains it all in depth, the thumbnail version is that stockholmer Feb 2012 #8
Anyone who doesn't hate the Ayatollah has no right to call themselves a liberal, Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2012 #7
false choice, I never said the regime was a just one, but I AM a progressive who opposes the march stockholmer Feb 2012 #9
There's kind of a gap between "unjust" and "rape as government policy". N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2012 #15
I wasn't aware that "liberal" is defined by required hate. JackRiddler Feb 2012 #10
+1!! renie408 Feb 2012 #12
I did indeed have something to say about that, as you are no doubt aware, Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2012 #14
Now imagine the US had not committed a war of aggression against Iraq... JackRiddler Feb 2012 #16
Here. Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2012 #17
Here. Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2012 #18
For the record, your source is the US Department of State. JackRiddler Feb 2012 #20
Well said. I am learning a lot these past few years about how wrong I apparently was sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #19
Rape, for example is not a liberal value. It is, however, a value of the Iranian regime. Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2012 #22
Schematic black-and-white thinking is not a liberal value. JackRiddler Feb 2012 #23
When the situation is black and white then it is. Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2012 #25
The US has people, raped and tortured and murdered also. Or have you forgotten sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #27
Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan and a whole host of our allies are far worse sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #24
Nonsense. Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2012 #26
See #6 Hugabear Feb 2012 #11
thank you for posting --- EVERYONE MUST listen to the radio interview !!!!!!!!!! Douglas Carpenter Feb 2012 #13
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