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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."
So you like the Iranian cock then?
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?
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does "wars started" also account for their sphere of influence like your good friends humus and hazyebala?
you are a racist piece of garbage indeed.
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.
Iran is an assbackwards third world country. The only thing they've launched is a silly story
A toast to Jimmy Carter on a job well done. Go ahead, mod me down - sigh -
Conservative, mod down for violating
Twenty years after the revolution, they tried peace overtures
By funding Hezbollah? Interesting peace overture.
And speaking of Israel: when they behave all might is right, others are going to try to acquire might to counter that.
Good luck with that. Even the Iranians aren't crazy enough to provoke a nuclear war with Israel.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
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.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
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.
Nicaragua ... no us government ... no us government ... 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)
Panama
Venezuela
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.
"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.
No, you just bombed them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade
Watch this Heartland Institute video
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.
Iran number one! Russia number one!! USA, *hack* *spit*
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.
Pax Vobiscum
American Imperialism?!?!
Your bullshit detector is in fine operating condition.
If the United States is perceived as relatively inactive in the world, it is because of American Isolationism.
If the United states is seen as relatively active in the world, it is American Imperialism.
It does not matter what the United States actually does, the critics have framed the "argument" so that America is either isolationist or imperialist.
And of course, those who would question such shallow thought are "jingoist."
The Method has earned them their diplomas, got them laid and employed. It even got them an affirmative action president who "thinks" like they do.
If Theocracies are so bad, why aren't you worried about Tibet?
Seriously, bigotry is the problem, not Theocracy. While I think that there are better methods of administration, the types of democracy that we have in most western countries are not participatory nor representative... it is effectively a mediaocracy. Knowledge and culture sharing are a better solution that trying to stop nukes...
The whole clash of cultures idea is also patently absurd, it's clash of money and oil interests in the upper echelons of both so-called empires at the expense of their own peoples that is the real problem. I, for one extend my hand of congratulations to the Iranian people and look very suspiciously at those who would tell them what to do/think/go to war over.
Ditto applies to the American administration (and anyone else who is spineless enough not to sign the nuclear disarmament treaty), please think it over without making these categorical errors and remember the one true rule of demographics... there is more variation of traits within a population than between.
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.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
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.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
..."let the Israelis bomb the bejesus of them."...
The Israelis have never advocated the extermination of another nation or people group. Iran and other enemies of Israel have expressed this goal more often than anyone can count. This tiny little nation has been attacked by its enemies who will not be satisfied with anything less than total extermination of every Jew on the planet. Hitler was the last tyrant that tried and failed at this. At some point in the future, Iran and its Moslem allies will try and fail again. Historically, every nation that went against Jews eventually came to ruin. What God had promised to Abraham centuries ago has been and still is in effect today.
Gen 12:3 And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
All theory is gray