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2007-03-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran says new film is "psychological war"

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Posted by mrp 2007-03-21 11:24|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If it's psychological war, then he just lost and might as well surrender now.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-21 13:22|| 2007-03-21 13:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe for the remake they can add a deranged, syphillitic little dwarf as a character?

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-21 13:23|| 2007-03-21 13:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred Thompson already knocked this one down.

The comic-book movie 300 about the Spartans and the Persians in 480 A.D. is still breaking box-office records. Now it seems the rulers of modern-day Persia Iran are not amused.

300, shows a small band of Spartans saving the lives of their countrymen and the seeds of modern democracy by kicking the much larger Persians forces effectively in the backside at Thermopylae until the shear numbers overwhelmed them. If I remember my history, thats exactly what happened.

But the Iranians have filed a flurry of complaints with the United Nations, claiming 300 is cultural and psychological warfare.

Who are these guys who are getting all flushed over our cultural insensitivity?

People who want to blow Jews off the face of the earth. The regime that stormed our embassy in 1979* and kept Americans captive for 444 days. Irans Hezbollah puppets have killed more Americans, than any other terrorist group except al Qaeda. Explosive devices from Iran are being used right now against our soldiers in Iraq. Theyre clearly more skittish about cultural warfare than the sort that actually kills people like the one against Israel that Iran financed just a few months ago.

I must say that Im impressed that Hollywood took on a politically incorrect villain. Must have run out of neo-Nazis. So now these sensitive souls in Iran think that Hollywood is part of a U.S. government conspiracy to humiliate them into submission. I can only wish we were that effective.

From his Paul Harvey piece a few days ago, by way of NAtional Review and I found it at Coloradans For Fred Thompson

Posted by OldSpook 2007-03-21 13:28|| 2007-03-21 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 My bad on the cut n paste - I retyped some of it - that should be BC on the 480 date.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-03-21 13:30|| 2007-03-21 13:30|| Front Page Top

#5 I say we make up to the Iranians, by making a film that GLORIFIES the Iranian empire. Lets use the words "shah", "shah of shahs" and "peacock throne" as much as possible.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-03-21 14:11|| 2007-03-21 14:11|| Front Page Top

#6 The Persian leader was one of the few non-deformed fellows on the Persian side, I'm not sure what they're complaining about. Bunch of whiners.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-21 14:40|| 2007-03-21 14:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Many Iranians see "300" as part of a broader campaign to vilify the Islamic Republic, which is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program.

With Ahmadinutjob and the MMs, they don't need any help vilifying the "Islamic Republic" - they're doing a bang-up job on their own.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-03-21 16:22|| 2007-03-21 16:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Iran says new film is "psychological war"

When dealing with a collective ego the size of Mt. Everest that has a soap bubble's wall thickness, everything is a form of "psychological war".

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-21 20:57|| 2007-03-21 20:57|| Front Page Top

#9 And this, from a government that wants it's citizens to forget Cyrus the Great (the Lord's Shepard) by flooding the valley wherein his sepulchre lies.

Posted by Xenophon 2007-03-21 21:35|| 2007-03-21 21:35|| Front Page Top

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