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To: SevenofNine

The only way he Iranian people will obtain, and retain, their freedom, is if they take it themselves. You cannot MAKE a people free, they must want it first


13 posted on 10/07/2006 5:31:16 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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To: SauronOfMordor
They're may possibly trade one ayatolla for another.

There's hardly any good in that.

L

37 posted on 10/07/2006 5:40:44 PM PDT by Lurker (islam is not a religion. It's the new face of Fascism in our time. We ignore it at our peril.)
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To: SauronOfMordor
The only way he Iranian people will obtain, and retain, their freedom, is if they take it themselves. You cannot MAKE a people free, they must want it first

You're so right. Revolutionary change in a society must come from the bottom up.

That's been my lingering doubt about the Iraq war...that change wouldn't "stick" because the changes have come from the top down.

Wouldn't it be sweet if Iran became the Middle-Eastern democracy that we hoped to make of Iraq?

60 posted on 10/07/2006 5:47:17 PM PDT by poindexter
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To: SauronOfMordor

Apparently not a quote from the King of France to Benjamin Franklin.


65 posted on 10/07/2006 5:49:28 PM PDT by osideplanner
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