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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (262991)	6/11/2002 5:41:14 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Iran is interesting in this regard: Islamic morals' police have raided and seized those obnoxious symbols of the American way of life -- Barbie dolls -- being sold in hundreds of shops around Tehran. But that's not the only reason that the Bush administration is being warned by intelligence officials that Iran could be on the brink of some huge internal explosion. They detect signs of panic in way Iran's hard-line Judiciary recently has gone on the offensive against those seeking a detente with Washington. The Tehran Justice Department issued a circular declaring that publication of any material favoring new U.S.-Iran talks would be considered a crime. Mohsen Mirdamadi, an Iranian reformist, who chairs the Iranian parliament's Foreign Affairs and National Security committees, and who had denied Iranian official denials of U.S.-Iran talks on Cyprus last April, was named in an official complaint which could lead to his prosecution. And Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, has now publicly ruled out talks with Washington, even after a May 21 colloquium in parliament on the future of relations with America in which officials from both right and left participated. Khameini said any such talks were "an insult to the Iranian people." One pro-detente newspaper the Bonyan, has been closed down and reformist commentator Ahmad Zeibabadi, given a two-year jail sentence. Meantime, the bulk of Iran's population, more than 70 percent of it under 22 years of age, is writhing with frustration, prompting Iran's elected President Mohammad Khatami to say: "This revolution happened because people wanted an Islamic Republic, not an Islamic dictatorship." Stay tuned. upi.com

To: goldworldnet who wrote (262991)	6/11/2002 6:15:51 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Now, that may lead to emerging ISIS leadership -- Very interesting. Where the hell are those Mullahs who advocate peaceful actions for their people, and who condemn violence against Americans? There seem to be very few. Or, the media is ignoring them? Certainly, Bush & Co. are ignoring them, preferring to bow to the Saudi bastards, rather than treating them as the enemies they are. To the extent believers of any philosophy, religion or political view plan and promote violence in this country, they should be prosecuted. If they are foreign nationals, extradited, and if US citizens, tried, convicted, and jailed. This includes mosques with religious leadership espousing, or protecting violent operators. What it will NOT do, is create the same Bush Doctrine-like violent backlash and enemy propaganda from claims of slaughtered civilians. Those ejected from this country cannot claim they are being killed, and use that to recruit. This is a strategic war of decency versus death. So far, the Culture of Death is growing, on both sides. "We believe that Islamic society has been held back by an unwillingness to subject its beliefs, laws and practices to critical examination, by a lack of respect for the rights of the individual, and by an unwillingness to tolerate alternative viewpoints or to engage in constructive dialogue."