Seriously, if you have the chance to visit Iran, do go !
I know it's fucking hard to get visa & stuff but there's something about Iran which you can feel if only you're there.

FACTS.
Iranians hate Arabs;
They love Americans more.
Iran is the biggest Shiite country in the world. The rest of the Muslim world are Sunnis.
Iranians LOVE to be photographed !!!
Just ask their permission & they would definitely say YES & strike a pose.
Iranians spend a lot of money on plastic surgery.
Plastic surgeons are super rich in Iran.

EVERY FUCKING RICH AMERICANS have custom-made carpets, importaed directly from Iran.

Iranians are so fucking proud of their culture & they protect it with their life.
Too bad that Ahmadinajad is from the lowclass.
Like MOST of you on here, I should fucking add.

Iran may very well need an ass kicking. The problem is we kicked another ass for absolutely no reason, and therefore have no more clout with which to kick ass. Terrible.

Just because everyone with half a brain knew that Iraq was a terrible idea before we went in...doesn't mean that we should necessarily be opposed to the use of force. If Saddam would have obtained nukes in the 80s (thanks Israel!) it would have been disasterous. If Iran were to obtain nukes within the next ten years...that would also be a catastrophic disaster.

Minotaur029 wrote: The problem is we kicked another ass for absolutely no reason, and therefore have no more clout with which to kick ass.

There's just one big problem here. It's all based on what you think might happen, were a certain country to develop nuclear weapons. Only one country has ever proven its inability to restrain itself from using nukes on civilians, and that's the United States.

Seems strange to me that we should be trusted with the clout to kick ass. By virtue of the first punch thrown by the US, along with the integrated militaries, governments, and financial sectors of the US and the country most allegedly threatened by Iranian nukes, Israel, the only moral course of action is to withhold military action until said military action is a truly defensive response to aggression.

That is the legacy of Truman. It seems that we operate on the principle that the other countries of the world are entitled to nuclear arms with our permission, when, to some impartial observer of Earth from outer space, it should be obvious that the trigger-happy US is the nation most in need of strict supervision of its military. You make the point that "We kicked another country's ass for no reason"- when does our record begin to precede us? Blasting apart Iraq twice with sanctions in the interim, and we still make the house rules?

As the dollar sags and as the Asian markets sag, the war drums beat louder:

The U.S. military is "planning a major buildup" of its naval forces in the Persian Gulf region "as a warning to Iran," reports CBS News, as quoted by Reuters.

A senior official in the Department of Defense said "the report was 'premature' and appeared to be drawing 'conclusions from assumptions,'" according to Reuters. The Pentagon declined comment, but an additional Defense official described the report as "speculative."

CBS said that "the buildup ... was not aimed at an attack on Iran but to discourage what U.S. officials view as increasingly provocative acts by Tehran."

Yeah, like changing their oil bourse over to accept Euros.

guardian UK, December 14, 2006 wrote:The outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, is backing a call for the president of Iran to be charged with inciting genocide because of his speeches advocating the destruction of the state of Israel.

Barely a week after he announced his resignation from the UN post, Mr Bolton will appear tomorrow among a panel of diplomats and lawyers calling for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be prosecuted. The panel has been convened by a Jewish umbrella group in the US, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organisations.

Watch the presentation by Alan Dershowitz to this symposium at you tube ( five minutes long )

Another episode in the popular series "A Conservative Maniac Lies to Your Face":

John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, is openly advocating for regime change in Iran. In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde, Bolton said negotiations with Iran have failed and that in the long term "the only real solution is regime change."

You lying piece of shit. You crazed death dealer. Negotiations that never happen always fail. When you are a deranged Christian/Zionist fanatic, you never have to listen to a word anyone outside your faith ever says about anything- they're all evil, their god is false and evil, all they understand is extreme violence- those are the teachings of the Christian/Zionist God, the number one with a bullet God, the only God who matters, the God who will never steer you wrong, the God who makes us kill as a tribute to him and makes us hate as a testimony to the strength of our faith.

Inter Press Service wrote: Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and to pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel's 1967 borders, according to the secret Iranian proposal to the United States.

The two-page proposal for a broad Iran-U.S. agreement covering all the issues separating the two countries, a copy of which was obtained by IPS, was conveyed to the United States in late April or early May 2003. Trita Parsi, a specialist on Iranian foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies who provided the document to IPS, says he got it from an Iranian official earlier this year but is not at liberty to reveal the source.

The two-page document contradicts the official line of the George W. Bush administration that Iran is committed to the destruction of Israel and the sponsorship of terrorism in the region.

Parsi says the document is a summary of an even more detailed Iranian negotiating proposal, which he learned about in 2003 from the U.S. intermediary who carried it to the State Department on behalf of the Swiss embassy in late April or early May 2003.

BadComrade wrote:Uh tipcat... how about the leader of Iran declaring that Israel needs to be wiped off of the map, as he's... you know, enriching uranium out in the backyard?

I like the way you know. And the rest of us don't.

Here we go again . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/ ... index.html

drew patrick wrote:Here we go again . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/ ... index.html

Yup. Oil futures are rising on the smell of war:

Energy prices were having a back-and-forth session Wednesday, but lately crude futures were surging and extending the prior day's big rally.
Recently, the front-month contract for light, sweet crude was adding $1.28 to $58.25 a barrel on the Nymex.

Every crude future climbed close to 2% in today's trading, all the way through June08.

A friend of mine who is a commodities trader refuses to deal in oil futures, because he feels the oil markets are so manipulated.