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2004-03-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Mike 2004-03-15 6:50:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 God speed.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-3-15 8:00:05 AM|| 2004-3-15 8:00:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ironically the hardliner candidate had announced that he did not need the peopleâs vote to get elected.

snicker - the guy got a lesson in REAL democracy. You know the REAL kind, where people get out an make their wishes be known. I'd say those Mullahs are in trouble - but then, what do I know?

Posted by B 2004-3-15 8:09:46 AM|| 2004-3-15 8:09:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The site uses the expression 'the regime is being ended by its internal contradictions'.
This is either a Marxist phrasology or someone making fun of Marx.

Posted by mhw 2004-3-15 8:57:40 AM|| 2004-3-15 8:57:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 BTW - Don't expect any help from The Media. The all out 48 hour frenzy to influence the Spanish election has proved that they have pulled out all stops now. Seems to me they have bothered to quit pretending anymore. Actually - they've been doing it all along - ignoring anything doesn't support socialist appeasement policies of anti-Israel/American interests - just now they are doing it without any pretense of truthful reporting. If you think of them as one big Al Jazeera, you won't find their actions as confusing.

Just to give you pause, remember, it only took Hitler about 6 weeks to use his propaganda machine turn the entire population of Germany against the Jews.

You'd think at some point the communist/socialists would realize that their greatest threat is from the Islamofascists - but I guess they are getting old and desperate now. It's hard to tell the difference between them anymore. I guess it's the old enemy of my enemy thing.

Posted by B 2004-3-15 9:04:54 AM|| 2004-3-15 9:04:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 B good post. I agree!

Posted by Phil B 2004-3-15 9:14:22 AM|| 2004-3-15 9:14:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 mhw:

It may also be an accurate description. The "islamic republic" has the outer trappings of a democracy, but the heart and soul of totalitarian Sharia. In other words, you can vote, as long as you vote as the mullahs tell you. If that's not an internal contradiction, I'm not sure what is.

Posted by Mike 2004-3-15 9:54:23 AM|| 2004-3-15 9:54:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 'the regime is being ended by its internal contradictions'

or perhaps a hegelian - dont think marx invented the idea of internal contradictions, any more than he invented historical forces, or dialectic. If the contradictions arent economic or related to class relations, then its not a particularly Marxist usage.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-15 10:58:45 AM|| 2004-3-15 10:58:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Looking at the photos, it looks more like a riot than any kind of real "uprising".

Posted by Anonymous 2004-3-15 3:05:48 PM|| 2004-3-15 3:05:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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