Riots in Iran have to worry other Islamic dictators
Here’s a report on events in Iran from Al Jazeerah in English. If similar reports are being shown on Al Jazeerah’s Arabic broadcasts, the impact in the rest of the Islamic world could be interesting and long-lasting.
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I Report :-) You Whine :-(
June 16th, 2009
2:09 pm
Yeah, do they have enough bullets and stones to kill all these people?
Dream on, bookman, it’ll never happen without our help.
And we are too skeered.
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
June 16th, 2009
2:11 pm
Hey, maybe the UN can huff and puff and, er, huff and puff.
mike
June 16th, 2009
2:17 pm
Like it or not, this was the intent of neocons when we went into Iraq.
Paul
June 16th, 2009
2:20 pm
That’s a big “IF” Jay. Please let us know if al Jazeerah does these broadcasts in Arabic. Or Persian. Or just English.
Interesting headline. “Other Islamic Dictators.” This assumes, does it not, that the Islamic Republic of Iran is run by Islamic dictators?
Paul
June 16th, 2009
2:22 pm
mike
Ouch! I await with interest the responses by the Left to that declaration.
George American
June 16th, 2009
2:26 pm
Reagan set this ball in motion long before the modern neocons invaded Iran to capture and kill Osama, which by the way was what Bush #2 meant when his wisely said” Mission Accomplished”.
Brad Steel
June 16th, 2009
2:27 pm
mike, you are a dope.
Brad Steel
June 16th, 2009
2:27 pm
a really, really big dope.
Democratic Iraq
June 16th, 2009
2:30 pm
Our plan it is coming to fruition. Such magnificence, such great planning by Ayatollah Bush.
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
June 16th, 2009
2:35 pm
Aahhh, yes, the shiite stooges from Iran tried their luck with the United States in Sadr City and were promptly wiped out.
Look at the pictures from Tehran, Revolutionary Guard hacks running from unarmed women, unless of course they outnumber them by ten or so.
We could lay waste to their army, air force and navy in three days, would the world not be better off?
Apparently the Iranian people think so.
Kowards.
Paul
June 16th, 2009
2:36 pm
mike
Well, I have my answer (2:27). That’s how the Left handles it!
josef nix
June 16th, 2009
2:36 pm
There comes a point when, and help me out here, I cannot remember now who said it, “history is let off the leash.” This appears to be one of those moments. We have all been saying that the Iranians must take matters into their own hands, why don’t they do something, when are they going to say enough is enough. It appears they have.
It appears from reports from Pakistan that there, too, the population has had enough and is taking matters into their own hands. In Lebanon and Indonesia the populations, afforded access to the ballot box, routed the religious fanatics and, so far, democracy seems to be working there.
The contrast is not lost on the Arab-Muslim street.
I Report :-) You Whine :-(
June 16th, 2009
2:39 pm
Hell, let’s at least find out what the Revolutionary Guard thinks of protesters armed with Squad Automatic Weapons and shoulder fired AT4 Rockets, air dropped right into the thick of things.
Game, set, match, Iranian people.
mm
June 16th, 2009
2:42 pm
The wingnuts think we need to get involved in all of the world’s affairs. Just STFU and crawl back under your beds.
Democratic Iraq
June 16th, 2009
2:43 pm
Our fearless leader, Ayatollah Bush, brought the great capitalist evil to our great country so that terrorists from all over the world would be drawn here to kill millions of oppressed Iraqis and open the door to democracy and Christianity so that his greater glorious plan of creating a massive disturbance in Iran, during an election, after he left his temporary position as president of the great capitalist evil states and went into hiding in the greater capitalist state that our Taliban brothers once visited, Texas. And, on your right, you will see that we have divided up parcels of beautiful Florida swamp land and have one acre lots available for the low low steal of a bargain basement one time price of 1 million rupees.
josef nix
June 16th, 2009
2:50 pm
Folks, I imagine about now the furtherest thing from the minds of the Irani people is the left-right, did too-did not, rehashing of our recent election.
DB, Gwinnettian
June 16th, 2009
2:54 pm
let’s at least find out what the Revolutionary Guard thinks of protesters armed with Squad Automatic Weapons and shoulder fired AT4 Rockets, air dropped right into the thick of things.
Air dropped? When you can run them there yourself and fund some latin-american death squads on the side from the proceeds? Where’s yer vision thing, boy?
George American
June 16th, 2009
2:55 pm
This situation reminds me of a song. It is definelty time to:
Bomb, bomb, bomb
Bomb, bomb, Iran.
What say ye, brave compatriots on the right?
George American
June 16th, 2009
3:00 pm
Hey libs, please send your thank you to Reagan c/o Nancy R. Santa Barbara, CA.
Please mention that her husband was dead-on with his Iran-Contra strategy.
Commie Ronnie
June 16th, 2009
3:07 pm
Roll over Ronnie. For, look what your great plan of fighting the evil communists by borrowing the money to fight with has done to your GOP. They have sold their souls to Communist China. How is that for the greatest irony, a fitting end to the Reagan ‘legacy’ — his obsession with the elimination of communists around the world ultimately led to the USofA being owned, lock, stock and barrel by the Communist Chinese.
Normal
June 16th, 2009
3:14 pm
“Afternoon Josef, Yes I believe you are right (sorry, correct). There are som Arabs shaking in their sheets right now. When people have had enough of being pushed around, they start pushing back. Maybe the Devil has come to Iran, and is not playing a fiddle. The Iraqi’s may even get it in their heads that it’s time to tell us to go home.
I just hope that this doesn’t turn out to be another tiananmen Square.
That would set the region back a hundred years.
RealityKing
June 16th, 2009
3:30 pm
The Mullahs aren’t afraid.., they believe God is on their side!
So stop trying to sell papers off of violence Jay!!
Bosch
June 16th, 2009
3:34 pm
Paul,
Ahem. Excuse me. Please do not let one posters satircal comments speak for the entire left.
mike,
If I may, please elaborate. So, you are saying that we invaded Iraq in order to topple the Iranian government? I guess you must understand how silly that sounds.
Copyleft
June 16th, 2009
3:35 pm
Mike: Interesting claim! Got any evidence for it?
I know the rabid right reacts to facts like vampires to sunlight, but c’mon–surely you can offer SOME scrap of proof that the neocons were planning on voter demonstrations in Iran when they decided to invade and occupy Iraq.
Bosch
June 16th, 2009
3:36 pm
Reality King,
“The Mullahs aren’t afraid.., they believe God is on their side!”
Replace Mullahs with Christian conservatives and you will be describing many, many of the fundamentalist right and neo-conians.
Plus….dude……their god’s name is Allah. Remember?
Bosch
June 16th, 2009
3:37 pm
Paul,
“I know the rabid right reacts to facts like vampires to sunlight”
Ha haaaa!!!! I just wonder if Copyleft has read THOSE books that we have?
Normal
June 16th, 2009
3:40 pm
RK, The Mullahs don’t believe in God anymore than any other Atheist. They just use religion and the population’s ignorance to maintain control just as the Catholic Church did in the Dark Ages. It’s politics,just politics. When the populace quits believing, they lose power. Imagine…
Armchair Playhouse Warriors
June 16th, 2009
3:41 pm
Fellow warriors, we must show support for the brave street fighters in Iran. So, join us on the town squares nearest to where ever you live for an evening tea party tonight. We shall protest until our military displays some courage and strength that made US what we are today — broke and thrown out of our foreclosed homes without a Lipton tea bag to our names. We still have our fighting spirit though and we’re not scared to use it — to say no, as many times as it takes. Now, join with me fellow warriors and just say no. By the way, where are Newt and Dick and Rush and George. Where are our great leaders. We have armchairs in need of pilots.
TnGelding
June 16th, 2009
3:48 pm
mike
June 16th, 2009
2:17 pm
The invasion and occupation of Iraq strengthened the powers that be in Iran.
Technology is getting the word around the world from Iran and allowing the more vocal minority to be heard and forcing the government’s restraint.
One man’s reasoned opinion:
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2008-03-04.asp
RealityKing
June 16th, 2009
3:49 pm
There’s only one God Bosch. And he is definiently not on our side..
RealityKing
June 16th, 2009
3:51 pm
Hey Jay, when is the AJC going to do its free full page spread on Obamacare??
>>ABC News will host a free hour long special on health care reform from the White House East Room — in which President Obama will answer questions presented by audience members selected by ABC News.
A move ABC defends as NOT being politically biased towards the Obama administration’s effort to control the healthcare debate.
(eyes rolling)
GreenJeans
June 16th, 2009
3:54 pm
“…it’ll never happen without our help. And we are too skeered.”
Oh for crying in a bucket Andy, participate in your own recovery!
Google “USA flights to Iran” and set yourself free.
Paul
June 16th, 2009
3:55 pm
Bosch
3:34 – fair point. His was merely the first response. Would’ve been nice if someone had said, ‘hey guy, you don’t speak for us. Answer the question.’
Sorry it took so long to get back. Mrs. G and I have been having fun downstairs. I’ve been working on all my ‘anti’ biases. They seem to get in the way of objectivity!
I dunno about CopyLeft – I thought all the Lefties would go the PETA furry friends route?
Paul
June 16th, 2009
3:57 pm
Oh, and Bosch,
I’m sitting here scanning some documents. Popping in for this.
All the while reading one of “those” books -
josef nix
June 16th, 2009
3:57 pm
Hey, Normal–What I just can’t seem to get a grasp on here is this obsession so many have that whatever is happening there has to fit into the paradigm of our own petty bickering…I make no pretense of understanding why now and why to this degree…
Mr. Snarky
June 16th, 2009
4:01 pm
“Like it or not, this was the intent of neocons when we went into Iraq.”
The road to hell is paved with…
Bosch
June 16th, 2009
4:02 pm
Paul,
Which one?
Hamas says it stopped an assasination plot against Jimmy Carter – please people, if you have any decency in you, do not say something like, “too bad they stopped them.” Really. The man wasn’t the best President in the world – but he is one hell of a humanitarian. I ask for decency here.
getalife
June 16th, 2009
4:02 pm
Funny how iamanutjob cut and ran to China and Russia.
Bosch
June 16th, 2009
4:04 pm
josef nix,
Do yourself a favor and don’t try to understand that. You’ll be wondering a long, long time.
RealityKing@ 3:49,
God is NOT on our side? What?
Paul
June 16th, 2009
4:06 pm
Bosch
Hamas can be effective.
But I gotta ask… I really do…. do ya’ think they got wind of something and when they questioned suspects, said they didn’t have to talk and they’d let them have a lawyer?
Okay, I admit, that started out smartass… but think about it….
All the times people derided the ‘immediate threat’ scenario (and I’ve been one) – along comes this.
CIA didn’t know. FBI didn’t know. Hamas did. The acted. And Pres Carter is alive.
And if Hamas had played by our rules, and it had come out they had yet let the scenario play out…
RealityKing
June 16th, 2009
4:08 pm
Thats right.., God sees man as a filthy rag, completely unworthy of paradise, but Jesus doesn’t.
Bosch
June 16th, 2009
4:09 pm
Paul,
Maybe they wanted to seem like heroes? I don’t know. I don’t put assasination attempts into the “immediate threat” box, when of course it is probably the most dire one – I know that seems weird, but does the CIA/FBI, Secret Service KNOW about all assasination attempts?
Paul
June 16th, 2009
4:10 pm
RealityKing
I’m probably going to regret this, but if God made us in His image and likeness…
Bosch
June 16th, 2009
4:10 pm
RealityKing @ 4:08,
Oh, okay.
RealityKing
June 16th, 2009
4:11 pm
>>Hamas says it stopped an assasination plot against Jimmy Carter
Hey Ali, go plant this roadside bomb over there.
Hey Haji, go uncover that roadside bomb and hold it up for the stupid American press corp to see how great we are..
Paul
June 16th, 2009
4:12 pm
Bosch
I was just taking Hamas at their word to illustrate the point.
I’d say if the FBI, Secret Service etc didn’t know about some plots, the were the plots that didn’t work.
I wouldn’t get too hung up on the word ‘immediate’ although it’s the word I used, I concede. Still and all, fast forward to Carter’s next peace initiative trip and you get my drift.
Bosch
June 16th, 2009
4:14 pm
Paul,
I get your drift – and who knows – it could be like what RealityKing just described.
josef nix
June 16th, 2009
4:16 pm
“Hamas can be effective.”
Sure it can, get you teenagers, strap on some explosives and send ‘em off to blow up some folks going about their daily affairs…meanwhile, bankroll that Iranian contribution to the cause in a numbered Swiss account…
RealityKing
June 16th, 2009
4:17 pm
God FORMED man in his image from the dust of the earth. Doesn’t say anything about if or when that formation stopped.., or will stop. I know, I know, it gets confusing for us simple minded folks.
Personally, I like to que in on the words in red: If you can not understand earthly things, how can you possibly understand heavenly things.
josef nix
June 16th, 2009
4:21 pm
All this talk about the Alm-ghty is just that–talk and, as a believer, I long ago learned the wisdom of the old spiritual, “…everybody talking about heaven ain’t going there…”