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2009-12-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by anonymous5089 2009-12-27 12:34|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 I think my irony meter just broke.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-12-27 12:51|| 2009-12-27 12:51|| Front Page Top

#2 the regime just made another high-profile martyr for the anti-mullah cause. Expect to hear that he was shot by the Mossad or CIA on PressTV.IR

Posted by Frank G 2009-12-27 13:10|| 2009-12-27 13:10|| Front Page Top

#3 They went and did it during Ashura too.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-12-27 13:14|| 2009-12-27 13:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Well John Kerry; when you go over there will you be for the regime or the opposition?

Posted by tipover 2009-12-27 13:34|| 2009-12-27 13:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Ohhh! Thats going to leave a mark.

Posted by newc 2009-12-27 13:47|| 2009-12-27 13:47|| Front Page Top

#6 number of fatalities at 10 as of a few hours ago

it would have been higher but some security personnel disobeyed the order to fire at the demonstrators

Posted by lord garth 2009-12-27 13:52|| 2009-12-27 13:52|| Front Page Top

#7 some security personnel disobeyed the order to fire

That's going to leave a mark.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-12-27 13:55|| 2009-12-27 13:55|| Front Page Top

#8 the IRGC vs teh Army could be interesting. Legitimacy lost, it's just naked power and crushing boot now

Posted by Frank G 2009-12-27 14:11|| 2009-12-27 14:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Who gives a flying fukc, let them fight it out on the streets of Tehran, at least it is contained in Iran, at the moment.

Posted by Dave UK 2009-12-27 14:52|| 2009-12-27 14:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Legitimacy lost, it's just naked power and crushing boot now. Posted by: Frank G 2009-12-27 14:11

Kinda like Washington, DC, under the donks, eh Frank?

Posted by Old Patriot 2009-12-27 15:59|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/ 2009-12-27 15:59|| Front Page Top

#11 except we are armed

Posted by Frank G 2009-12-27 16:17|| 2009-12-27 16:17|| Front Page Top

#12 I like the Iranian people. I visited before the Shah fell; everyone seemed happy, content, generally everyone smiled everywhere. A decent standard of living prevailed. I know Iranians who had to flee after the Shah fell, some military, some civilian. The mullahs who took over, and their sycophants, seem alien, or like a cancer to the Iranian body.

I want to see Iranians free, but it is best if they free themselves. I hope they do. Guns would help. If they succeed, I hope they institute their own 2nd Amendment. So pray for them.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2009-12-27 20:25|| 2009-12-27 20:25|| Front Page Top

#13 I struggled in how to respond, but Whiskey Mike did it better and I'll only add that the Iranians I've met are educated, non jihadi-oriented, and a people we have common goals with. The Shah did good things in his time, encouraging a western education system. Not ethat Ahmadinejad is a leisure-suit-wearing doofus. He couldn't earn a living past cab-driver in the west

Posted by Frank G 2009-12-27 21:02|| 2009-12-27 21:02|| Front Page Top

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