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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (202750)	9/13/2006 5:06:00 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Iran had threatened Iraq & tried to invade it. No they didn't. When was this? In the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980's Iraq was the agressor. Stop making things up. History has taught us that radical religious movement tends to conquer neighboring countries. No it doesn't. Most radical religious movements are small cults with zero ability to conquer a neighboring country. When has a radical religious movement conquered a neighboring country in the past 100 years? Hmmmm, I guess you're history is made up as well. What terrorism does Iran conduct that doesn't involve opposition to the state of Israel? The question really is which culture do you prefer: Israel or Iran? Jewish or Islam ? That's not the question at all. You seem to think that Iran is a major sponsor of worlwide terrorism. I'm pretty sure that the Iranian regime doesn't think the country Israel should exist, and most of the violence it propagates around the world is aimed at removing the Israel from the map. It's still often terrorism, and repugnant, but you should understand it for what it is - it's not an attempt to destroy the rest of the world, it is their method of objecting to the existence of Israel. My preference for Jewish or Islamic culture has nothing to do with that. I guess if forced to choose (which I am not), I would choose "Jewish" culture, even though I'm not entirely suer what that is. But I don't know much about Israeli culture - most of what (little) I know about "Jewish" culture comes from relations with American Jews. It has nothing to do with Iran and Israel.