[Illbay]

Thanks for that. Yes, I have friends who are Shias from Iran, and they are the same way. Very nice people, cultured, educated, religious but not fanatical.

Try telling that to the hard-core bigots that infest FR, however.

But I concur with your observations.

[TonyInOhio]

Commentator on Sky News (excellent!) says each street in Basra was controlled by a Ba'ath Party member, the better to keep a tight grip.

[FBD]

Young Iranians are avid web surfers.

Please pass along to folks that Iranians indeed do visit sites like FR. Do we want them to think we wish them any ill?
NO!

Jim Robinson, Admin. Moderator, please advise FReepers to be careful about what they say about the Iranian people.

We only wish for their liberation, NOT their destruction!

FReegards