Religions > Atheism > Article on Iran: "The Case for Engagement" by Scott Ritter
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11 Nov 2006 03:45:35 PM |
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Article on Iran: "The Case for Engagement" by Scott Ritter |
Has the current administration and MSM been leading us astray on this
country?
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20061120&s=ritter
Excerpt: "Curiously, while the Western media have replayed Ahmadinejad's
anti-Israel statements repeatedly, very little attention has been paid
to the Supreme Leader's pronouncement--in the form of a fatwa, or
religious edict--that Iran rejects outright the acquisition of nuclear
weapons, or to the efforts made by the Supreme Leader in 2003 to reach
an accommodation with the United States that offered peace with Israel."
Excerpt: "In our haste to lash out at those who attacked us on September
11, 2001, we forget that Iran not only condemned the attacks, as did its
Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, but that it nearly fought a war against
Afghanistan's Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies in the late 1990s. There
is no greater potential ally in the struggle against Sunni extremism
than Shiite Iran, a point made over and over by everyone I talked to,
especially those affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard."
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655321
"Heed the message served with every Republican banquet speech -- that the
private interest precedes the public interest, that money is good for rich
people, bad for poor people -- and who can say that the war in Iraq has proven
to be anything other than the transformation of a godforsaken desert into a
defense contractor's Garden of Eden?" -- Lewis Lapham
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| User: "Rick" |
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| Title: Re: Article on Iran: "The Case for Engagement" by Scott Ritter |
13 Nov 2006 08:32:57 PM |
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655321 wrote in message ...
Has the current administration and MSM been leading us astray on this
country?
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20061120&s=ritter
Excerpt: "Curiously, while the Western media have replayed Ahmadinejad's
anti-Israel statements repeatedly, very little attention has been paid
to the Supreme Leader's pronouncement--in the form of a fatwa, or
religious edict--that Iran rejects outright the acquisition of nuclear
weapons, or to the efforts made by the Supreme Leader in 2003 to reach
an accommodation with the United States that offered peace with Israel."
Excerpt: "In our haste to lash out at those who attacked us on September
11, 2001, we forget that Iran not only condemned the attacks, as did its
Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, but that it nearly fought a war against
Afghanistan's Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies in the late 1990s. There
is no greater potential ally in the struggle against Sunni extremism
than Shiite Iran, a point made over and over by everyone I talked to,
especially those affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard."
I wonder who paid off Ritter this time.
- Rick
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Article on Iran: "The Case for Engagement" by Scott Ritter |
18 Nov 2006 10:35:56 PM |
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:45:35 GMT, 655321
<DipthotDipthot@Yahoo.Yahoo.Com.Com> wrote in alt.atheism
Has the current administration and MSM been leading us astray on this
country?
When haven't they, in the last six years?
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20061120&s=ritter
Excerpt: "Curiously, while the Western media have replayed Ahmadinejad's
anti-Israel statements repeatedly, very little attention has been paid
to the Supreme Leader's pronouncement--in the form of a fatwa, or
religious edict--that Iran rejects outright the acquisition of nuclear
weapons, or to the efforts made by the Supreme Leader in 2003 to reach
an accommodation with the United States that offered peace with Israel."
Excerpt: "In our haste to lash out at those who attacked us on September
11, 2001, we forget that Iran not only condemned the attacks, as did its
Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, but that it nearly fought a war against
Afghanistan's Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies in the late 1990s. There
is no greater potential ally in the struggle against Sunni extremism
than Shiite Iran, a point made over and over by everyone I talked to,
especially those affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard."
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Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Article on Iran: "The Case for Engagement" by Scott Ritter |
11 Nov 2006 07:02:22 PM |
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:45:35 GMT, 655321
<DipthotDipthot@Yahoo.Yahoo.Com.Com> wrote:
Excerpt: "In our haste to lash out at those who attacked us on September
11, 2001, we forget that Iran not only condemned the attacks, as did its
Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, but that it nearly fought a war against
Afghanistan's Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies in the late 1990s. There
is no greater potential ally in the struggle against Sunni extremism
than Shiite Iran, a point made over and over by everyone I talked to,
especially those affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard."
I seem to recall some Shia extremism too. It's not one-sided.
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