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To: one_less who wrote (243164)	9/26/2007 3:48:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I do see your point but I don't agree that propaganda is the necessary and only outcome of this event. Was there any other? Did Ahmedinijad provide any open discussion? Did he answer a single solitary question? No, he just spewed one lie after another. And when he went on about needing more "research" to see if the Holocuast happened or not, he got about 1/3 of the audience to applaud him. This you see as positive? The one positive you can point to is his gaffe when he declared there are no homosexuals in Iran. He's going to have to brush up on his knowledge of Western PC sensibilities and fix that. Next time he will declare that Iran is a fine place for people of all sexual proclivities, just like he said it was the most advanced place in the world to be a woman.

To: one_less who wrote (243164)	9/26/2007 3:52:04 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What interests me is how the younger left finally got it about Ahamdidjad. When he said no gays in iran, he lost them. Back in the day when i was a protestor against the vn war, I knew a guy in one of the more radical groups. He thought ho was cool and a TJ disciple. In later year, we talked and he said he was shocked at what the NVN did to folks in the south---things that he denied would happen and then denied happened. That in turn reminds me of my uncle the communist from the 40s and 50s who gave up all politics after proof of Uncle Joe Stalins crimes were corraborated by the Soviets themselves. There are moments when tyrants do faux pas or are outed that are important. Ahamdijad became a joke like kim in NK with that one comment that showed his ignorance or his fanaticism or both.