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."

Comments

Re:Congratulations

[zulater]

So you like the Iranian cock then?

Re:well i recall it

[should_be_linear]

Are hezbollah and hamas really terrorist organizations? I certainly wouldn't compare them to, say, Al Qaeda. They are fighting against foreign (Israely) army in their own country (Palestine). Whats wrong with that?

All Man Equal

[krischik]

Well aren't all man equal?

If so then all men have the right to defend them self using the same type of weapons.

So unless you are from a country without nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles you have no right to talk.

Re:All Man Equal

[c6gunner]

Well aren't all man equal?

No. I'm not sure where you got that silly idea - too much Marx, maybe? Anyway, it's completely wrong, as even the most cursory examination of the world around you would show.

So unless you are from a country without nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles you have no right to talk.

Yes, I do - it's called the right to free speech. I find it interesting that you wish to stick up for the rights of genocidal maniacs to own nuclear weapons, while simultaneously attempting to take away the right of others to disagree. You REALLY don't get this whole "liberal democracy" thing, do you?

Thanks Jimmy

[m0s3m8n]

A toast to Jimmy Carter on a job well done. Go ahead, mod me down - sigh -

Re:Respect

[cayenne8]

"Those who warned about the "American Imperialism" had been right all along and if I became head of state somewhere I would terminate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty right away."

American Imperialism?!?!

Yeah right....ok, how many new countries have we annexed in the past couple of decades...go ahead...I'm waiting.

I honestly don't recall us taking over foreign land, and making it a new state. If you're alluding to Iraq....we're on the way out of there. They just had free elections the other day. It isn't like that is now part of the US.

Do we have influence in the world? Sure...so do other countries. But it isn't like we rule other countries.

Re:Wake up from what?

[johnny cashed]

Yes, and keeping them dumb or engaging in armed conflict is going to change Sharia law. We should get right on it, undermine their society with armed confrontation. That should work out nicely.

Re:Respect

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

Nicaragua ... no us government
Panama ... no us government
Venezuela ... no us government (and a murder rate that exceeds the death rate of the inner blast circle of a nuclear explosion ... thank you mr. Chavez)

Are you insane ? I mean these are not details.

Let's take for example a really imperialist expansionist murderous ideology : islam.

Egypt : sharia government
Libya : sharia government
Tunisia : sharia government
Algeria : sharia government
Morocco : "mostly" sharia government (ie. in theory not so much in practice)

Of course we never see mad assholes like you rant about the constant massacres, right into the 21st century, that created these governments ...

Of course that's because you're a total coward : you only complain if the side you're madly blabbering about doesn't attack you back.

Which means the only type of US government that you'd be happy about is ... a REALLY imperialistic dictatorship, one that DOES hurt you. Which is "supposedly" what you want to avoid in the first place.

Re:Racist Piece Of Garbage

[Anonymous Coward]

"that Israel should be wiped off the map"

Did you actually just repeat that disgusting lie?

What a fucking loser. What a fucking moron. It is so goddamn sad to be reminded just how many stupid people like you are out there.

Re:Dear Iranian nation

[OneSmartFellow]

You do realise that for a very long time, the Muslims lead the world in terms of technology, science and mathematics?

A common misconception. Please do more in depth research, you'll soon discover that the 'Muslims' did no such thing, although some Persians (who were probably Zoroastrians) may have.

So what material did they use....

[PontifexMaximus]

to make the turban on the Satellite survive escaping the atmospehere?

And how'd they get the camel moving that fast anyway?

I just had to go there.

Re:Respect

[cayenne8]

"You dumbass. I live in the UK where for no reason obvious to most of the citizens here we still have a couple of dozen US military and intelligence bases. Our independent nuclear deterrent is manufactured in the US and we depend on the US for maintenance of those arms."

Well, you could always have your country politely ask us to leave.

Frankly, I'd love to get out of most of those countries....quit sending you funding, and let you raise and fund your own military large enough to defend yourselves and interestes.

YOu might have to give up a little of that 'free' medical care tho, it gets expensive keeping a large, full military.

Re:Texas

[HornWumpus]

You history is wrong.

For example Texas was an independent republic that had broken off from old Mexico before they became a US territory. They did this because the old Mexican government was far away and they were being ignored r.e. Comanche raids etc.

The US accepting Texas as a territory started the Mexican-American war. Mexico considered Texas Mexican, but Texas didn't.

We later paid Mexico for the territory in the treaty of Guadalupe, they forever gave up all claim in exchange for big dollars.

You might as well claim the Louisiana territory is still fucking French (spit) and Alaska is still Russian.

If California was run by Mexico I have no doubt it would be a third world hellhole just like the rest of the territory Mexico controls.

Up until very recently Mexico was (more or less) owned outright by 21 families of Spaniards. NAFTA broke that but it's still the thin edge of the wedge.

Finally which five states would that be? Mexico never even claimed to own Northern California. At that many of the lines where like the current borders in the middle of the Sahara desert. Just lines on maps.