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To: WOSG

Let's hope you're right. I still don't think a president will risk it, not after the merciless pounding Bush has taken.


32 posted on 01/12/2006 10:27:33 AM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Travis McGee

"Let's hope you're right. I still don't think a president will risk it, not after the merciless pounding Bush has taken."

Actually he wont ... yet. Stabilizing Iraq first, then this.


41 posted on 01/12/2006 11:06:23 AM PST by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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To: Travis McGee

From Wikipedia...another possible explanation for the new "hardliner" regime in Iran that isn't part of the Mullah crowd:

Agent provocateur

An agent provocateur (plural: agents provocateurs) is a person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another. In general, agents provocateurs seek to secretly disrupt a group's activities from within the group.

An agent provocateur is often a police officer whose duty is to make sure suspected individual(s) carry out a crime to guarantee their punishment; or who suggests the commission of a crime to another, in hopes they will go along with the suggestion, so they may be convicted of the crime the provocateur suggested. The phrase comes from the French language, where it means, roughly, "inciting agent".

The activities of agents provocateurs are typically called sting operations. Agents provocateurs are typically used to investigate consensual or "victimless" crimes; since each participant in such a crime is a willing participant, only a police spy posing as a fellow participant in criminal activity is likely to be able to uncover such a crime.

Agents provocateurs are also used against political opponents. Here, it has been documented that provocateurs deliberately carry out or seek to incite counter-productive and/or ineffective acts, in order to foster public disdain for the group and provide a pretext for aggression; and to worsen the punishments its members are liable for. Within the United States the COINTELPRO program of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had FBI agents posing as political radicals in order to disrupt the activities of political groups the U.S. government found unacceptably radical, such as the Black Panthers.


58 posted on 01/12/2006 11:57:50 AM PST by GermanBusiness
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