Rice accuses Iran of spreading extremism

[rodeodance]

Source: reuters



Rice accuses Iran of spreading extremism

1 hour, 6 minutes ago



NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday accused Iran of spreading "violent extremism" across the Middle East and said a strong Palestinian state could act as a bulwark against this threat.


Speaking to American Jewish leaders at a conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Rice reassured them of Washington's commitment to protect longtime ally Israel against threats from Tehran and said successful Palestinian statehood negotiations could counter Iran's power in the region.

"We will defend against any action, as we always have, that would compromise Israel's security," Rice said to applause from delegates at the meeting of the United Jewish Communities.

The United States is hosting a peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, probably this month, that Rice hopes will kick-start serious talks between Israelis and Palestinians on core issues -- the right of return of refugees, the future of Jerusalem and the contours of a future Palestinian state.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071113/pl_nm/iran_usa_rice_dc

[hobbit709]

1. When it comes to spreading extremism

She and her cohorts in the cabal are experts.

[humbled_opinion]

14. Yeah but they call it Freedom and Democracy.... lol... n/t

[gateley]

2. The Headline might more factually read: Bush told Rice to accuse Iran of

spreading extremism.

[Turbineguy]

3. We'd spread it too

if anybody would listen!

[Tempest]

4. Here's what I don't understand

How is Bush planning on creating a workable solution to the Palestinian issue when they're only talking with Abbas and the Fatah controlled section of Palestine?

Just how viable would a Palestinian state be without the Hamas controlled section being included?

[dantyrant]

9. It wouldn't be.

It would be unstable from day one. These people are nuts.

[dipsydoodle]

5. That's the pot

calling the kettle black.

[ohio2007]

6. Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister ( nothing to see here folks )

Gays should be hanged, says Iranian minister
Dominic Kennedy
Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt.

Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being hanged.

President Ahmadinejad, questioned by students in New York two months ago about the executions, dodged the issue by suggesting that there were no gays in his country.

Britain regularly challenges Iran about its gay hangings, stonings and executions of adulterers and perceived moral criminals, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) papers show.

The latest row involves a woman hanged this June in the town of Gorgan after becoming pregnant by her brother. He was absolved after expressing his remorse. Britain said that this demonstrated the unequal treatment of men and women in law and breached Iran’s pledge to restrict the death penalty to the most serious crimes.

A series of reported executions of gays, including two underage boys whose public hanging was posted on the internet, has alarmed human rights campaigners.

snip
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2859606.ece

Some closet cases will have a tough time if the koran thumping fundies come knocking on their closet doors.

..oh,
I'm sure they don't really want to convert all the world.... this half of the century.

I'm sure they are only a boogy man to all but the Iranian hangman

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Wow. That's awful. It's gotta stop.

Let's nuke em. Today!

[humbled_opinion]

13. I guess they don't have any bathroom stalls in Iran... i mean just saying...n/t

[yava]

15. ohio2007

Rice accused iran of making trouble in the middle east and you bring this gay issue.
Are you at least gay or is this just a practice for fun?
Are you a militant zionist?
Are you in the media or do you dream of it?
Many countries are bigots regarding the homo community.
Please don't use the homo acceptance problems as propaganda for your Hitlerish wars.

[ohio2007]

17. yava

you post an awful lot of "opinions"...you know what they say about opinions.........


So,
you like the mullahs gay bashing policy and that issue should not be seen as part of the problem anywhere in the middle east until AFTER '09 election ?



you don't want to compare apples to oranges bc Rice accuses a system in Iran of making trouble in the world.
hey, I'm pointing out that there is trouble in Iran ( but it isn't to be discussed until Hitlery give the marching orders in '09 ? ) how convenient


I bet you think the world will "like us" when Rice and * admin lackeys are replaced by ......Hillary's lackeys. ;)


Imagine what Iran and the ME will think of the US with a woman in charge at 1600 Pa ave.
http://www.thebusiness.co.uk/news-and-analysis/358346/saudi-minister-warns-of-dollar-collapse.thtml


They don't think much about women either.....but that is a convienant issue to avoid also

[0007]

18. You're full of it Sonny. Relax a little your up tight!

Larry Craig sez; "you can whip our potatoes but ya can't beat our spuds"

[ohio2007]

29. So you troll "Graigs List"

for hookups from the salad bars to gay bars ?

[0007]

30. "What is "Graigs List"? Perhaps you were trying to say "Craig"??

Your too hip for me Sonny. You need to go jerk off and take the tensions off yourself.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Is she accusing them of plagiarism?

Condi don't give yourself so much credit.
Who the hell would want to copycat you and your thugs?

[xxqqqzme]

8. publicans really do not understand irony do they?

Is it a missing gene? flaccid gray matter? What?

[L0oniX]

10. It's amazing that anyone believes anything she has to say

[Amonester]

12. Yeah. Last time I checked, only 20-something percent of the U.S.,

some jerks in Albania, and Likud supporters in Israel do...

The rest of the world, which would total some 5,898,879,495 human beings (about 99.896% of the total) consider her as mentally ill.

An all-times' world-record.

Guiness should take notes...

[Supersedeas]

16. Where was she speaking again? Somewhere where the War Drums are heard loud and clear?

[boricua79]

19. what threats to Israel?

Really, let's be serious. Israel's army is one of the strongest in the world. The Iranians haven't done a single thing to Israel, unless your consider arming Hizbollah so that it can fend off the Israeli occupation of Lebanon "doing something to Israel".

Israel whining about Iran is like Arnord Schwartzenneger whining that Bill Gates poses a threat to him physically.

And Rice can just shove it...I'm so tired of listening to her lying. Her kissing-up to the Republicans for her own career aggrandizement is so disgusting.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

27. welput and welcome.

Hard not to agree.

[Angela Shelley]

20. Who needs a poorly written soap opera

when you have a government like this?

[Strathos]

21. what a fuckin' waste of human flesh that woman is

Hello pot, this is kettle...

[winston61]

22. accusing Rice of lying is rather like accusing sundown of

causing darkness.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. And I suppose the Saudis aren't extremist?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3068292&mesg_id=3068292

[NuttyFluffers]

26. the saudi's are a huge issue in the spread of extremism

thank you for pointing this out.

Saudi/Hedjaz has routinely been good at double dealing any assets with diplomacy into positions of real power. it's always been a part of their long term survival plan.

[and-justice-for-all]

24. "Rice accuses Iran of spreading extremism"

Pot to kettle come in, over.

[bhikkhu]

25. Yawn....Iran accuses US of spreading -

Irresponsible Militaristic Adventurism (IMA)

Hatred of Foreigners With Oil (HOFWO)

Lies about Islamic Nations (LAIN)

Any Propoganda Possible to Prop up the President (APPTPUTP)

....its too easy

[SpikeTss]

28. Rice accuses Saudi Arabia of spreading extremism

Now that makes sense.
Everything else not.