Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: freedom44

Time to "delouse" Karbala.

The only good Iranian is a dead Iranian.


3 posted on 09/04/2005 9:20:44 PM PDT by Howie66 ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Howie66

That's not fair and not true.

NY Times
By Nicholas D. Kristof
TEHRAN, Iran

Finally, I've found a pro-American country.

Everywhere I've gone in Iran, with one exception, people have been exceptionally friendly and fulsome in their praise for the United States, and often for President Bush as well. Even when I was detained a couple of days ago in the city of Isfahan for asking a group of young people whether they thought the Islamic revolution had been a mistake (they did), the police were courteous and let me go after an apology.

They apologized; I didn't.

On my first day in Tehran, I dropped by the "Den of Spies," as the old U.S. Embassy is now called. It's covered with ferocious murals denouncing America as the "Great Satan" and the "archvillain of nations" and showing the Statue of Liberty as a skull (tour the "Den of Spies")

Then I stopped to chat with one of the Revolutionary Guards now based in the complex. He was a young man who quickly confessed that his favorite movie is "Titanic." "If I could manage it, I'd go to America tomorrow," he said wistfully.

He paused and added, "To hell with the mullahs."


7 posted on 09/04/2005 9:25:32 PM PDT by freedom44
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson