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 Iran to U.S.: I’m Rubber, You’re GluePosted on Sep 30, 2007
The Iranian parliament has taken the I’m rubber, you’re glue approach to dealing with the U.S., labeling the United States Army and the CIA terrorist organizations, just days after Congress suggested the same designation for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Iranian lawmakers cited the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and other “places of torture” to back up its claim.
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By QuyTran, October 1, 2007 at 1:46 pm #
We have to look down with shame due to the stupidity of our elected officials from all branches !
Report thisBy P. T., October 1, 2007 at 1:07 pm #
Terrorism is political violence directed at civilians. Congress apparently considers the U.S. occupation troops to be civilians.
Report thisBy Hammo, October 1, 2007 at 12:41 pm #
There are reports, unverified, that the elements of the US military and intelligence community are “pushing back” against hawks in the Bush-Cheney administration regarding attacking Iran.
Even more unusual reports involve US surveillance drones over Iran, reported as “UFOs,” and a past event involving the Iranian Air Force and a UFO. Sounds far-fetched, but interesting.
More on it in the article ...
“UFOs over Iran could be U.S. operations, extraterrestrial visitors or both”
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=20151
Report thisBy WR Curley, October 1, 2007 at 12:18 pm #
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Write your reps. Tell them that you have no quarrel with Iran. Because you don’t, do you? Tell them that they should get up off their knees and stop servicing the Israel lobby.
Your quarrel is with the K Street bagmen.
You don’t need a war with Iran. You need universal health care. You need jobs at a decent wage. You need functional schools. You need some security when you’ve worn yourself out in service to the American Dream.
You need some news not filtered through the Israel-firsters.
You need reps who actually represent you.
WR Curley
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By P. T., October 1, 2007 at 12:03 pm #
By Congress’s standard, George Washington, the French Resistance, and fighters against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan were terrorists.
Report thisBy ocjim, October 1, 2007 at 11:18 am #
We can’t label Congress stupid because an independent assessment can easily reach that conclusion. We must label them individuals motivated by self interest who have lost sight of their function as representatives of the people. An assessment of Why they were elected might be entirely different from their constitutional function, for the system of electing is flawed and compromised by other factors: propaganda, the media, gerrymandering, and emotional voting.
Report thisBy weather, October 1, 2007 at 8:40 am #
Dislodge this flawed, yet once esteemable country from the highly manipulated and selfish deceit that is Israel. May Joe “the fraud” Lieberman first wash the feet of those serving and living in Iraq, then we can discuss Iran w/perspective.
But, instead of moving into a new and very challenged century w/honorable hope we are being dragged down into a dark, draconian hole w/out a flashlight.
Report thisBy AL, October 1, 2007 at 6:35 am #
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Wrong - by your own standards. Neither the Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran) nor the CIA nor the US Army are “civilians”, they are organisations of the state (country) and may - by the old definition - not be called “terrorist” as a whole. But this definition is changing, because of alleged “state-sponsored terrorism” by Iran, Syria, or the US. From there it goes straight to the term “terrorist state”. Any organ of such a state is “terrorist”, naturally
Ahmadinejad has taken yet another opportunity - after the “Holocaust discussion” - to repay biased Western rhetoric in kind, one that I believe more Westerners would sympathize with than his previous mockery. I respect him for his boldness in the face of open US warmongering. If you can’t beat the bully, mock him so openly even the dumbest understands. Or is he a matador waving a red cape to hypnotize the bull?
Report thisWhen I hear charged questions like “Is Israel justified for invading Iran if…?” put to presidential candidates I can only hope for more sanity than this athmosphere suggests to an outsider from Germany (me).
By P. T., October 1, 2007 at 12:42 am #
The Iranians win on this one. The U.S. charges have not been proven. Furthermore, even if the Revolutionary Guards were supplying Iraqi resistance fighters who attack U.S. occupation troops, it would not be terrorism as they are not civilians.
As far as the C.I.A. goes, its terrorism is well documented.
Report thisBy kevin99999, October 1, 2007 at 12:06 am #
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The stupidity of the U.S. congress never fails to amaze me. The latest sign of its collective dementia is reflected in its labeling of Iran’s revolutionary army as a terrorist organization..completing ignoring the fact that it is the U.S. army that has killed hundreds and thousands of people and is occupying another country.
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