Samnmax221 Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 I really doubt that many people would go blow themselves up, as unpopular as we are over there they don't particularly like there own government depending who you talk to, I was listening to the BBC World service a while back and when they polled people on the streets of Tehran most said they thought they had the right to have nuclear power but didn't trust the Ahmadinejad administration with it, Ahmadinejad continues to talk radically about how the Jews must be pushed into the sea and all that bull****, the man simply can't have peaceful intentions when he constantly preach's about how extreme violence will get you to heaven. It's allways been the same strategy of extremists on both sides since the beginning of time: find some one to blame and unfortunetly most of the time it's people of the jewish faith who get blamed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-8252 Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 I really doubt that many people would go blow themselves up Who knows... there are probably that many people who would rather blow themselves up than live in Iran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Actully we are always looking for the leaders... Kill the head, the body keeps on moving. It's allways been the same strategy of extremist whacko's and liberals since the beginning of time: find some one to blame and unfortunetly most of the time it's people of the jewish faith who get blamed. ...liberals? I miss something? I really doubt that many people would go blow themselves up, as unpopular as we are over there they don't particularly like there own government depending who you talk to War has the uncanny ability to unify people under a government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 OOPS liberals wasn't the word I was really looking for, I know most left wingers don't. Many extremists on the Left blame Israel for their problems, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Fidel Castro both have made anti-semetic statements, more recently Chavez. In response to your comment about war uniting people behind the government you can't forget that Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani the pragmatic conservative from last years iranian election was not far behind Ahmadinejad in the race (Supposing it wasn't fixed) so a large portion of the country is certainly tired of the hardline conservative muslim government and is not so willing to blow themselvs to hell for allah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Threats usually make people forget about things rather quickly. I'm not sure how many will go, but enough will. And that's no good. Also - Religion ranks almost equally with war in uniting a people. "For Allah" you said - for him, I'm sure most would do anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 When it comes to governments and leaders you have to be careful to distinguish between the things that they say and mean, and the things that they say because they feel they are expected. Statements about attacking israel are likely the expected thing of any iranian government. I doubt anyone actually intends to drive israel into the sea anymore... but its just something you need to say. Like the way you have to portray yourself as a happily married christian to become president of the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 happily married christian to become president of the US. Guess my dreams of presidency are gone then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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