On Jun 18, 2009, at 7:30 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> I think the latter. As the leader of the free world (whether he > likes it or not), Obama MUST speak out against that brutality. Those > are pro-Westerners that are being repressed and murdered by > theocratic thugs. > > Where's the outrage? Because if if the US Government comes out loud and hard on the matter, this will tend to re-unify the iranian people around their government. You may have forgotten, but the Iranian people certainly haven't forgotten that the LAST time they had a free and open democracy, the US destroyed it and installed the Shah for nearly 30 years of repression and brutality. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état > Then came the revolution and the US stood on the side of the Shah. Ahmedinijad got elected the FIRST time, in no small part, because of Bush's cowboy rhetoric about 'Axis of Evil'. Before that stupid-ass speech, there was a growing thaw between Iran and the US. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
