On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 00:28 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Ben Kevan wrote: >> On Wednesday 05 December 2007 08:27:39 am Aaron Kulkis wrote: >>> test >> Hopefully your not in Iran testing Nucular bombs like President Bush believes > Anyone who is both sane, and emotionally strong enough to > avoid playing like an ostrich with his head in the sand > will regard Iran with suspicion until they > 1) quit trying to enrich uranium Like the US does? Why shouldn't they have nuclear power?
> 2) quit broadcasting rhetoric about destroying all > nations which do not convert to Islam They don't. If they tried that (the Iranian ruling institutions that is), they'd be condemned by every Muslim, Muslim nation and Muslim scholar. Declaring war on a nation that has not attacked you is against Islam. It's against Christianity for that matter. Declaring war on all non-Muslim nations is insanity. I daresay you can find a few nutjobs who'll say such things. But in the US you find Anne "kill them or convert them to Christianity" Coulter. And she gets a prime-time TV show. Should she be silenced too? I thought you guys were in favour of free speech? Or is there a double standard? > 3) quit providing, training, weapons, and refuge to every radical Islamic terrorist organization on the planet. They don't. This is a fantasy, like the one about Al Qaeda doing the same thing, or the Commies before them. > Until that day, anyone who regards the Iranian government as benign is whistling in the dark. But the US government is benign, yes? If not, should the international community invade the US? Or should the US stop manufacturing nuclear weapons? What do they need them for? Also, why do we need to think they're benign? Surely being satisfied they haven't manufactured nukes (as opposed to set up nuclear power stations) is sufficient? > There's a reason that both the French and the Germans replaced their anti-Bush heads of state the last time they had the opportunity to do so. Because they had leftist governments for a time and the pendulum had swung back. Nothing more. The War on Terror is less popular in those countries now, not more. See the box "Falling Support for U.S.-led War on Terror" at http://pewglobal.org/commentary/display.php?AnalysisID=1019 Anyone who is both sane, and emotionally strong enough to avoid playing like an ostrich with his head in the sand will regard claims about WMD by George Bush with suspicion. >> If your just testing a post to the "Mailing List" then it was successful. > It turns out my mail service (hotpop.com) was acting flaky.... > servers down or something. Hope you get it fixed. Maybe spend more time working on it and less listening to Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
