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Iran plans Holocaust conference

Oh, I'm sure we'll get this cleared up once and for all now ...

i think Iran would have had a huge moral standing point if it had never made coments about the holocaust.

i think raising that in the debate will only work against them.

everything else they are saying can not be argued against by other countries due to hypocracy. but that one issue is not really up for debate in to many peoples opinions.

Iran getting labeled as hitler will only make people stop things before they happen..... if they had not talked about any genocide (they could fairly and civily talk about getting rid of Isreal as a debate topic, but not in relation to the holocaust) then they would have been sweet.

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From the looks of things now ... Ike made a decent decision then ...

But this topic shows how serious topics are almost not possible here in the other anymore ... we used to be able to do these ... it's degenerated even more than I thought.

How does an extremist become leader though? Through intimidation and threats, killings, etc.

He used threats and killed people to get to where he is now. He was once their leader, took a leave, and now he's back again.

Why? Everything favored the other fella to win the election but out of no where, he makes his comeback and wins heavily? How so?

Right, but we fed that movement. The Shaw was pro-american and did a lot of western modernization. So when he was overthrown they pretty much used the anti-american sentiment to do the exact opposite.

What I'm not familiar with is how this current guy got in power. I would assume their elections today are much like those in the former Soviet Union.

History has been rewritten many times before. It's not like he's the first to try.

An now, another interesting artice on the topic:

Source: Iran issues stark warning on oil price
Robert Tait in Tehran
Monday January 16, 2006
The Guardian

These guys (actually just a handfull of extremeists, Mullahs and Imams) want nuclear power for "peaceful purposes" and they think it would be nice if Israel were annialated ...

Sure, after all, they did hold an election ...

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I would tend to agree with you up until the last 100-200 years.

With photography coming out, more educated people, recording has become better.

I don't think it would be easy to rewrite history today as it was 200-300 years ago.

Case in point: Going to war with Iraq. Dems are saying it's a big screw up. Go back a couple years, there they are saying they're all for it. They're trying to rewrite it but history was written.. basically in Real Time.. not a week or 2 months after the accounts.

I think he needs to get in touch with his 'touchy feely' side more often. lol.
what's wrong with making personal friends in the forum?

right.....I like to know that the ppl I'm talking with aren't machines....


the jury's out on Jake, although he seems like a very nice machine.

aww.....don't be mad Jakey....we're just teasing.

are you saying I post too much? I don't make friends in threads cause ppl put on a front. I do it in PMs where ppl feel more comfortable discussing their true selves.

it would take me a lifetime to read everything that's been posted in every thread.....I just skip to the last part of the thread cause the topic always changes at the bottom of the thread anyway....

or it would become mundane and we'd start repeating ourselves.

I never argued the fact that the thread changes at the end......I totally and whole-heartedly agree.

I'm just saying it's a natural evolution of thoughts and conversations. To try to squelch that evolution would be to stop the conversation at a certain point and then no new ideas can form.

I understand your wanting of a purist thread, but it wouldn't last long and it wouldn't have creative and flowing thoughts....

I'll let you know if they get nominated ... then we will get their take on how they might deal with Iran issue.

how do you think it should be handled? what's your perspective?

what would happen if you wrote the candidates letters on what you think should be done and see what happens? You're very literate and I'm sure they'll take your words into consideration.

Stranger things have happened.

Ahh I'll pass on him.

Actually during Clinton's first campaign I started trying to figure out who the next people who would run. I really haven't seen any way of figuring it out aside from who talks the biggest talk.

Bush makes me nervous on a good day, but I'm glad he won the last election......Kerry isn't as entertaining.

that's true....Kerry and Bush have a lot of the same ideals when it came down to it, but it's better to know the devil you do than the devil you don't.


I think JFK and Clinton are good runners up for being presidential gigolos. Both were good presidents, but had problems with their zippers.....

well those who get sex arn't busy thinking about blowing crap up, they are more concerned with rolling over.....

there was a case here of a violent mental patient.... all they needed to do to stop him damaging himself, people, or property was get him a hooker often enough to keep his testosterone levels down.

all illegal of course... but who cares.

i don't see why sex is more of a sin than violence. it baffles me, but it seems that way (one breast=R18, 500 deaths = PG).

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well those who get sex arn't busy thinking about blowing crap up, they are more concerned with rolling over.....

there was a case here of a violent mental patient.... all they needed to do to stop him damaging himself, people, or property was get him a hooker often enough to keep his testosterone levels down.

all illegal of course... but who cares.

i don't see why sex is more of a sin than violence. it baffles me, but it seems that way (one breast=R18, 500 deaths = PG).

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Your theory is flawed. Ever heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Are you nuts ... it was based on confirmed U2 photo's, The Soviets confirmed it ... and we saw the missiles being removed. Hearsay - that's crazy.

They're all nuts.