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Hmmm.... we're going to start our Northwestern University college savings funds for the girls right away. NOT.

In fact, I have a High School friend and bleeding-heart lib who studied philosophy at Northwestern. If anything, he's slipped further into moonbattery since.

Nope this never happened.

All those people starved themselves for a bunch of photo-ops.

Can't you tell the ppictures have been altered?

What's the matter with you?

/ahmanutjob

RWR

(Ahmanutjob nickname courtesy of RightWingConspirator.)

Ive heard of this Butt-Head since the early 80s.

It would have been funnier if his parents had named him Seymore instead of Arthur as in: Seymore Butz.

The Holocaust most certainly did occur .. but: it was far from the only genocide of this kind to have happened. The British Empire was doing exactly the same to the Kenyans and other Africans at the same time, and the West ignored Stalin's similar persecution of Jews (and others) because he was an ally (Stalin, like Saddam Hussein, later became an enemy of course!).

Genocide has happened everyday, every year and the American regime is at it at present (only they are the winners, as were the British and American alliance back in 1945). They committed attrocities as evil as Hitler (some were hidden, but others (such as the atom bombing of Japan and the 250, 000 deliberately targetted German civilians to lower war moral - the precursor to 9/11 only with nearly 100 times more people killed) were too horrid to stay secret).

In this context (i.e. that Hitler was the only guy to do such things while the allies in that war were plaster saints), yes it is a "myth". Hitler should be condemned but so should the US (how dare they accuse Iran of looking for an atom bomb and they the only ones to us it), British (they nearly "wiped whole races off the face of the earth" (American Indians, Australian Negroes, even some African Negroes, and even tried to with their neighbours the Scots, Irish, French, Germans and Welsh). Give me a break: the Western alliance is another evil superpower who have more in common with Hitler (Guantanimo bay, anoybody? Abu Graib?) than with freedom.

Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Netanyahu, Bush, Blair, Paul Wolfovitz ... these men are a lot more evil and powerful than Ali Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hashemi Rafsanjani. Fact: The world is a lot more dangerous now since Bush's woeful reaction to 9/11. Al Qaeda wanted that reaction and have got what they wanted: for America/Britain to become much reviled. I hate Al Qaeda but also hate the current US regime and the legacy of Dick Cheney.

JMW

Angela Merkel is wrong to make comments about Iran for the benefit of the West. The West is the new Hitler.

However it is commendable that German people admit that Adolf Hitler was a dictator and 99.99% of Germans are ashamed of that part of their country's history. I only wish other nations would be the same.

Take the British as main example: they have and continue to glorify such bloodsucking imperialist tyrants as Wellington, Nelson, Churchill. And not to mention their bloody royals like Edward the First. While most Brits will openly admit to hatred of Edward or Mary Tudor, such later tyrants as Wellington or Churchill are still considered gods despite their evil doings. These people are as bad as Hitler was, but are viewed so differently. The same is true with regard to those who decided to bomb Japan with nukes in 1945.

French do not revere Napoleon, Russians mainly do not like Stalin, and one day Iranians will consider their Republic wrong and will like Ireland, Japan and Germany (the enemies of the West in World War 1 (countries 1 and 2) and World War 2 (countries 2 and 3)) be converted to be slaves of the West.

Interfering in Iran has always caused the West problems. Iran never accepted Pahlavi 2 because he was twice enforced on us by the West. When the peaceful nationalist revolution of 1953 did not work, Iran got Islamic and got them to do the job. But Khomeini had the support of many groups and his republic became a lot more nationalist than traditionally Islamist. Ahmadinejad sees himself as the Castro or Chavez of Iran and wants to make a stand against the West.

All countries of the world should respect each other and not try to justify their past. Germany has admitted its past wrongs, so have Russia. I predict to see Iran do so (in better times: yes, there were excesses in the revolution and the Republic ain't 100% perfect either). and, as all countries start admitting their wrongs, you'll still see the West speaking highly of such tyrants as Churchill, Ronald Reagan, Bush, Wellington, etc. while denouncing Stalin, Saddam, Hitler, Khomeini, Ahmadinejad, Assad, Castro, etc. Other than Stalin and Hitler, the rest in this second list do not even count in the grand scale of things. However, most of the first list do and did.
Rudolph Karimi.

This discussion reminds me of an old "Get Your War On" comic strip. Two characters are discussing the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, when one of them finally shouts: "WHY ARE YOU KEEPING SCORE?"