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Old 09-20-2006, 21:32 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Isn't some large percentage,like around 65% of Iran's population under the age of 30.If the time was ever ripe for all those educated,intelligent youths to revolt,it is now!..A new revolution,take over,give all those Mullahs and extremist nutbags a taste of their own prison treatments...would the army fire on hordes of their own people?
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Yeah, It's all a smokescreen. We are secretly trying to establish dictatorships all around the world so we can oppress the poor more effectively.

We will only be happy when all the world's poor people are eating Alpo and Ralston Purina has the world monopoly on 'poor people food'.


I don't think he meant it like that.

Honestly though, name some democracies you have created in the past? Now name the dictatorships and compare numbers.

Again this is not a dig at America as I have faith that you are trying your best in tthe current but the rest of the world is watching and we remember the past as people always remember the bad first. Basically we're all waiting to see what you do next as the average perseption is that a lot of this mess now is created by past mistakes and with you as the superpower you get all the blame.

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I'm urging a cultural revolution too. Get rid of the mullahs and their lackeys and take your rightful place among the developed world.
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I'm urging a cultural revolution too. Get rid of the mullahs and their lackeys and take your rightful place among the developed world.
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Isn't some large percentage,like around 65% of Iran's population under the age of 30.If the time was ever ripe for all those educated,intelligent youths to revolt,it is now!..A new revolution,take over,give all those Mullahs and extremist nutbags a taste of their own prison treatments...would the army fire on hordes of their own people?
I'm sure that they would. It was what, 2003 that Iran had a student uprising? One thing I read that the "morality police" did as crowd control was storm a woman's dormitory and start throwing protesting (or maybe even not) women out the windows.
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...would the army fire on hordes of their own people?
Wouldn't be the first time military forces have been used to fight dissent.
All the powers-that-are in Tehran would have to do, would be send in the Revolutionary Guard units who are fanatically loyal to the regime.
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