IRAN did not attack us on 9/11 !!!

[annabanana]

I can't believe that the media is getting away with PUNKING us again in the exact same way!! Why shouldn't Ahmadinejad lay a wreath for the 9/11 victims? Iran held candlelight vigils in Tehran when the attack happened.

OH.. and BY THE WAY you miserable warmongers, the IAEA says that Iran is complying with all verification requests, and inspection requests. .(Just like Iraq did.. remember?)
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Statements/2007/ebsp2007n014a.html#iran

We can't let the media get away with this again!!!

edited to add link

[Sadie4629]

1. Because it's really in poor taste

if nothing else.

[Solon]

2. Why? They lost people that day too...

Why can't they honor their own victims at the site in which they died, if nothing else?

[Sadie4629]

9. Is that what he has said he wanted to do? n/t

[bdamomma]

33. Ahmadinejad wanted to lay a wreath,

instead of making allies, we are making more enemies. What ever happened to diplomacy?? Now Ahamdinejad is the new Saddam. And Iran had nothing to do with 9/11, and not only Americans were killed that day.

[driver8]

18. I agree -- why is it in poor taste? I don't understand this.

Iran had NOTHING to do with 9/11.

Oh wait, the people of Iran are brown, aren't they?

Guilty!

[Solon]

25. Actually, Iran is pretty diverse, ethnically...

Coming in practically all shades of color for eyes, skin, and hair. Problem is that our media doesn't portray them that way.

[driver8]

28. I should have known better...

I used to work in Westwood, CA -- they call it "little Tehran". I met many Persians and some of them had lighter skin than me. One of the guys I worked with was from Iran, and introduced me to Persian food -- which I absolutely love!!

[bdamomma]

34. Portrays them as evil doers.

:puke:

[5X]

3. What is in poor taste? Honoring the dead?

Bigoted much?

[Sadie4629]

11. Iran was the original terrrorist state

In 1979 "students" took American diplomatic personnel hostage and kept them for months, with the full approval of the Iranian government.

Ahmadinijad (sp?) is a Holocaust denier. You certainly understand enough about symbolism to understand what he is up to. How would you feel about the Grand Wizard of the KKK laying a wreath at MLK's grave?

[annabanana]

14. Dear Sadie.

That did not happen in a vacuum. WE deposed a popular leader and replaced him with the thoroughly corrupt Shah of Iran WAY before this happened. Do a little googling, a little reading. .

[Sadie4629]

16. What does that have to do with Ahmadinejad

laying a wreath at Ground Zero? It still isn't the right thing to do.

Besides, regardless of how corrupt the Shah was, what came after was probably far more brutal and repressive than the Shah ever was. Under the Ayatollah the punishment for thievery was amputation of the hand. Women were treated as possessions, stonings were common, etc.

[mmonk]

21. What does what you're saying have to do with laying

a wreath? Nothing.

[mmonk]

23. And get this, WE funded and trained al queda and built the "caves"

in Afghanistan. Further irony, al queda is anti-Iranian.

[paparush]

29. Why would we condemn a peacefull gesture? Hmmm? Why?

So's not to put a humane face on this guy. Makes it easier for the the White House to whip up hatred against him.

Joe Six Pack would be less inclined to bomb the shit out of a guy who they just say laying a wreath at Ground Zero.

Its spin control.

Its message control.

Its mind control.

[driver8]

19. but, but, but...the people of Iran really wanted the Shah!

They just didn't realize it at the time. It was our duty to help them recognize what was really good for them.

[Solon]

15. Bullshit, when the US deposed Mossedegh, they were playing the role of the terrorist!

And before them there was Britain, France, Germany, Spain, etc. that were all terrorist states.

[Sadie4629]

17. So somehow that made it okay to

take diplomatic personnel hostage???

[doublethink]

20. What does that have to do with Ahmadinejad?

Hypocritical much? Go back and read the thread. Peace.

[driver8]

22. What makes it ok to go into a country and install a government?

Uh yeah, I think that would piss me off if I lived in that country. It might make me a little "less tolerant" for the people from that country that worked at the embassy.

Is there ever a good reason for terrorism? I don't think so.

Are we just as guilty? You bet we are.

[Solon]

24. Actually, from a tactical point of view, yes...

The first coup started in the U.S. embassy, and after the revolution in 1979, the best way to secure the new government was to prevent another U.S. led coup, which means taking the U.S. embassy. Besides that, to the Iranian people who did take those hostages, they didn't know who was CIA and who wasn't. It was the CIA's bright idea to infiltrate our own diplomatic corps, blame them for the consequences.

[WinkyDink]

32. What are you saying: everybody who died in the WTC was Jewish?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

30. Poor taste is not letting him lay the wreath.

It's an insult to the 9-11 victims.

[WinkyDink]

31. And why is that?

[malaise]

4. Iran also facilitated the attacks on Afghanistan after 9/11

It's all bullshit -villify then obliterate.

[annabanana]

5. Exactly right. After the ways in which we've screwed Iran

(google peacock throne) We are in no position to continue the irresponsible lying.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. Andrea Mitchell "reported" it this morning and immediately her report was biased.

She called it a photo-op. This is not reporting, this is blatant opinion.

[annabanana]

7. Andrea Mitchell is one of the worst of the worst... . . .n/t

[peekaloo]

12. Amen. I'm surprised she didn't put on a big pout and stamp her feet, "He's a bad

bad man".

I wish she'd retire with the old man.

[OwnedByFerrets]

27. And of course we all know......

that only TWO people have the RIGHT to use it as a PHOTO OP. A monkeyboy and a cross dresser.

[goforit]

8. True, but the bush junta are on a reckless agenda!!!

And no one cares to stop them.

A sad era.

[Octafish]

10. Neither did IRAQ.

But that hasn't stopped Corporate McPravda from vaulting the propaganda.

Robert Parry has pegged the lying warmongers:

Media Crisis

[annabanana]

13. My point exactly.

They have just returned to the same playbook that worked last time. Can we "catapult" high enough and fast enough to keep this one train on the track?

[alfredo]

26. Iran was helping the US in Afghanistan until bush named them part

of the "Axis of Evil."