[LibWhacker]

Yeah, right. They're our friends. Hey, I've got an idea . . . Let's give 'em some Stinger missiles!

If I'm asleep, doc, you're in a coma. These people are our enemies. Or did you forget the 444 days?

[Steel Wolf]

Old Internet Proverb: It is better to remain a lurker and be suspected ignorant, than to post foolishness and remove all doubt.

For a brief education, the hardcore Islamists you remember so fondly from the Carter era are being opposed by the pro-Western reformist students. The Islamists are the same old crowd as ever, brutal and inept, with a sprinkling of Arab thugs hired from other countries. The students are the younger generation tired of Sharia, poverty and repression, and looking to make Iran a modern country.

If you think that both of these groups are your enemies, then I'd imagine your enemies list is pretty impressive in length.

[DoctorZIn]

...Yeah, right. They're our friends. Hey, I've got an idea . . . Let's give 'em some Stinger missiles!
If I'm asleep, doc, you're in a coma. These people are our enemies. Or did you forget the 444 days? ...

To say all Iranians are our enemies is like saying all Americans are liberal nuts. Have you read what the students are calling for? I have read more persuasive pro-American comments from Iranians than anything I have read from us.

To trash an entire country becasue of the lunacy of a few is lunacy itself.

Accorning to recent polling in Iran, the vast majority want friendly relations with the US. If the numbers were reversed I might understand your hostility. But this is a nation held hostage by a few unelected radicals. To an insult to all freedom loving people to compare the students with scorpions. These students are risking their lives for the very freedoms we enjoy.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

[DoctorZIn]

...These people are our enemies. Or did you forget the 444 days? ...

I understand your anger at the hostage taking. So are all Americans.

But the entire nation did not hold hostage our people in Iran. The same people who took the hostages also stole the government from the people. They were not elected. They took control, left in the vacumn of the fall of the Shah.

The people of Iran did not act swiftly enough to stop it. But after 25 years under this regime they are acting now.

Support them, don't insult them.