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2005-03-07 Southeast Asia

Poll: Major Change of Public Opinion in Muslim World

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Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-07 12:27:27 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 hmm... with the UN screwing up the aid so bad to the tsunami areas, maybe they will start hating that corrupt organization.
We can only hope....

Posted by mmurray821 2005-03-07 12:50:28 PM|| 2005-03-07 12:50:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Everyone gets it except Democrat ex-US Presidents...

BILL CLINTON at Davos, Switzerland Jan 30,2005.

I know it is not popular for an American ever to say anything like this, but I think it's true [applause], and I apologized when President Khatami was elected. I publicly acknowledged that the United States had actively overthrown Mossadegh and I apologized for it, ¹ and I hope that we could have some rapprochement with Iran. I think basically the Europeans' initiative to Iran to try to figure out a way to defuse the nuclear crisis is a good one.

I think President Bush has done, so far, the right thing by not taking the military option off the table, but not pushing it too much.² I didn't like the story that looked like the military option had been elevated above a diplomatic option. But Iran is the most perplexing problem ... we face, for the following reasons: It is the only country in the world with two governments, and the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami. [It is] the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote in six elections: two for President; two for the parliament, the Majlis; two for the mayoralities.³

¹Mossadegh was in league with the Soviets, and so he apologised.
²I have top but cover so I won't be called a traitor by giving Bush a backha=nded complement
³ I know the magic mullahs veto any candidate they like but I am sucking up to the tyrants 'cause I want to be UN Secretary General after Kofi.

JIMMY CARTER interview with CNN Feb 9, 2005

"Iran is a signatory of a [nuclear] nonproliferation treaty," Carter said. "Israel, for instance, is not. Iran still claims -- as backed up I think by the international commission on nuclear weapons -- that they are in compliance with the nonproliferation treaty.¹
"I don't know what the facts are, but I think that's going to be increasingly important for the world to ascertain," he said.
"And it may be that through the United Nations Security Council, the United States, the Europeans and others will continue to put increasing pressure on Iran ... to help reveal exactly what is the status of Iran's policies."²
Carter pointed out that Iran does have a right, under the nonproliferation treaty, to develop a nuclear power program and to dispose properly of the program's waste.³
"Whether they're doing it legally at this point, I don't know," said the former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner. ⁴

¹ âThere he goes againâ â Ronald Reagan
² I won the Nobel (Ap)peace(ment) prize. I have to talk like this. My reputation is at stake!
³I donât care that they have a large reserve of oil and thus nuclear programs might be suspicious. Donât you know? Kerry has 3 purple hearts, and I am a Nobel Prize winner.
⁴And CNN Does not want ANYONE to forget it either...

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-07 1:12:26 PM|| 2005-03-07 1:12:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Typos in Bubba #2 footnote. It should read:

²I have to cover so I won't be called a traitor by giving Bush a backhanded complement

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-07 1:24:25 PM|| 2005-03-07 1:24:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 and to think, it's all Bush's fault 'cause he spent the first 24 hours relocating the Navy's Pacific fleet, instead of coming before the cameras, biting his lip, with tears in his eyes!

Posted by Sherry 2005-03-07 2:23:17 PM|| 2005-03-07 2:23:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Strong horse, baby.

Posted by someone 2005-03-07 7:55:32 PM|| 2005-03-07 7:55:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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