Subject: RE: How would 'YOU' define 'conservative'?
From: GUEST,greymalkin
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 12:51 PM

Yeah, the Iranian leader is a fun guy in reality. The Mullahs repressive? Not a bit. Twinkly-eyed and avuncular - always ready for a kick-about with a soccer ball. Or a woman's head.

    Ironic way to argue a point; make a different point. Four and a half years ago when I tried to convince people that going to war in Iraq was a horrible idea, all I heard was what a bad guy Saddam was. "He kills his own people (Kurds and Shiites) and attacks his neighbors (Kuwait, Iran)." Of course he's a bad man ,I said. The world is full of them. We can't make war on them all. Nor should we. Especially not when we are going to make the situation a whole lot worse. Which we did.
    Now people want to say Ahmadinejab is a bad guy. A fundamentalist.
He funds terrorism. He stifles free speech. He oppresses his people. Okay, I say, he's an asshole. The world is full of them. We can't go to war with all of them. Nor should we.