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To: arun gera who wrote (242797)	9/23/2007 1:33:34 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Then why did the US deal with that regime during the Iran/Contra affair? Because they were numbskulls. There have been many behind the scenes attempts to conduct diplomacy with the Mullahs' regime, and they have all been costly failures. The Mullahs will gladly talk to anyone to buy time for their plans, but they are just not interested in making or keeping any deal. The history of the efforts should show that. All the emotional buttons are pressed - nuclear, Death to---, Islam, sponsorship of terrorism, holocaust denial etc. that just kill any sense of fair play that every american normally displays when dealing with people and institutions within the United States. Are you now claiming that Iran didn't REALLY say these things, the US propaganda machine made them up? The US propaganda machines puts things on Iran state TV? Writes speeches of Ahmedinijad? If you believe that, you've joined the tinfoil hat society. If you think it's unfairly "selective" to notice these things, which are repeated many times (the missile parade was just last week), then you're just being stupid.