Re: RE: We can't afford a nuclear Iran
darkbeaver said:
I think not said:
cortezzz said:
invite them to be permament members of the security council
That would be consistent with the UN. They should begin by offerring them to chair the Human Rights council.
It would be consistent, since you had much to do with the Human Rights Council even in spite of your own dismal human rights record.
Damn, Beav, you just chewed through the wrong branch.
Comparing the human rights record of the mullahs of Iran, and the United States is simply ridiculous.
Educate yourself.
I recommend the book I am currently reading.....
Reading Lolita in Tehran, A Memoir in Books, by Azar Nafisi.
Nafisi was an Iranian professor of English literature, who quit her job and taught a few special female students sedition through the writings of Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, and Nabokov.
Read about women, not only forced to wear the chador, but forbidden to lick ice cream in public. Read about girls beaten by police on the street because the ate apples too seductively. Read about young women tried, convicted and publically whipped for sitting (6 of them together) with a man on a couple of benches.
Read about the professors colleagues, who began disappearing from the university, only to reappear on TV broadcasts, bruised and submissive, to confess to their thought crimes before their execution. Read about the novelist executed for "promoting prostitution" in one of his stories. Read about the 19 year old kid executed for "Being westernized, brought up in a westernized family, staying too long in Europe for his studies; smoking Winston cigarettes;and displaying leftist tendencies."(from Amnesty International)
And you have the gall to equate this with democratic, tolerant, free nations like the United States?
I know it is swollen and probably stuck, but you should really try to pull your head out of your arse.