[MadIvan]

Iran can be brought down without war; the kids there need to be given the tools of revolution and told that their lives need not be so utterly boring.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Happygal]

Agree 100% about Iran.

What young nation would thank their fore fathers for wreckin' a progressive, secularist economy for the sake of a rather dodgy religious ethic?

[Amerigomag]

To serve the needs of a willing customer with solid liquidity and robust reserves.

A liberated, destroyed Iraq is every capitalist's dream.

A stable oil supply and the profits from the oil.

The dream of every modern nation.

Bush is simply brilliant.

Onward to Iran and Saudi Arabia. Korea and Syria can wait. Not much profit in camels or rice.

[struwwelpeter]

Does this mean 'no soup' for Russia as well? You really want to hurt them, starting calling in their IMF papers just when the price of oil is tanking.

[habaes corpussel]

"Iran can be brought down without war; the kids there need to be given the tools of revolution and told that their lives need not be so utterly boring."

Yep lets see, DF11, DF15, SS-N-22's, Shihab 3, 4, 5, 6, and soon 7's meaning ICBM's. Six months away from acquiring plutonium. Yea and the children will be Iran's saviors. Sure just like the Chinese students and splat they went. The same will happen in Iran. The Mullahs control the military and are just as brutal....

Iran should have been our first target, then Iraq and then NK....

[Willie Green]

Richard Perle, until this week an influential adviser to the Pentagon, said recently he was optimistic that regime change in Iran would come about without US military intervention. But he denied knowledge of a Pentagon corporate blacklist.

Looks like the way is being cleared for Hutchison Whampoa to get the Iranian ports while Global Crossing gets the Iranian telecommunications franchise.

Bill mandates U.S. cellular tech for postwar Iraq
Hutchison Whampoa Snags Global Crossing

[uncbuck]

I'm not so sure about that. The students who are protesting the current policies of the Iranian Gov't, are not for a western type of democracy. What it appears to me is, they want an Islamic Republic, but one that is truely a republic. Which is still ok with me, as long as they are not trying to import their views on the rest of the world. (Like we are)