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To: Road Walker who wrote (343635)	7/19/2007 9:49:16 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576642

"A recent opinion poll in Iran found that 70 percent of Iranians want to normalize relations with the U.S., and 61 percent oppose the current Iranian system of government. Any visitor to Iran knows that it is — at a people-to-people level — the most pro-American Muslim country in the region, and the regime is as out of touch and moribund as the shah’s was in the late 1970s." Which probably explains the rhetoric. It is a perfect profile to the neocons. Why, if we can topple the regime, the people will throwing rose petals before buckling down and creating a democratic government which will cause all the despotic regimes in the region to topple like dominoes...

To: Road Walker who wrote (343635)	7/19/2007 1:16:37 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576642

A recent opinion poll in Iran found that 70 percent of Iranians want to normalize relations with the U.S., and 61 percent oppose the current Iranian system of government. Any visitor to Iran knows that it is — at a people-to-people level — the most pro-American Muslim country in the region, and the regime is as out of touch and moribund as the shah’s was in the late 1970s. The best perspective on Iran is the Neil Diamond Peace Train video that I posted a while back. Iranians are more like Americans than our neocons want us to know. In fact, like Asians, Iranians integrated into S. CA life very quickly after they emigrated to the US.