Greebozz said:Please excuse my naivety, I thought they disliked America more.

Greebozz said:nino_savatte, I think you are a coward, who is without honour and I am putting you on my ignore list.
Not true. America is seen as a far-off evil with regional aspirations. Al Qaeda are at the forefront of an expansionist Sunni extremism which wants to take Persian lands. You do know that Iran is largely Shia, and Al Qaeda exclusively Sunni don't you?Greebozz said:Please excuse my naivety, I thought they disliked America more.
Do you know any Iranians? Have you been there? Do you have any idea of the diversity of the place? Your ignorance is staggering.it is far from clear exactly how dangerous a nuclear-armed Iran would be. Unlike Iraq under Saddam, Iran has a complex power structure with elements of pluralism and many checks and balances. For all its proclaimed religiosity, it has behaved since the revolution like a rational actor.
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moono said:nino_savatte;
Hey, I'd forgotten about those. They might be revisited, you know, from the Senior Citizen angle. Might raise some squids for the cause.![]()
Greebozz said:There seem to be two types of poster on this thread, those who are Moslem, and care nothing for non Islamic Britain. Who would like to see Britain humiliated, damaged and brought to its knees by a terrorist event. Incidentally If there is more terrorism, at some point down the line, every Moslem living in Britain will have to swear on the holy Koran not to harm Britain by terrorism.
The other kind, are consumed by self hatred for their own country, who are only focused on bitter class or political disputes, their hatred for Blair and Bush has become so fetishised that anyone as long as they are an enemy of Bush or Blair are viewed as friends and brothers in arms. All the benefits, the privileges of Britain's history and society by invisible to them, they criticise everything, and are addicted to acheavingthe smug moral high ground, which one can only take, if you have no power or responsibility.
Because Iran is that a repressive state very little of the bad news and unsavoury oppression is talked about much in the media. So in many ways they are out of mind. And are usually not the subject for dinner party chatter, whereas criticising Bush is.
Greebozz said:Please excuse my naivety, I thought they disliked America more.
Greebozz said:nino_savatte, I think you are a coward, who is without honour and I am putting you on my ignore list.
Option 1: Face bullets and pipe bombs in Basra and Helmand.Greebozz said:Violent Panda, to be honest I don't fully understand the subtleties between the two branches of Islam, your summing up of conflict between the two I found a helpful.
I don't quite get, this groove you are in about doing my bit for my country, and joining the army. I'm not quite sure if you are just insulting me or are throwing down some kind of genuine challenge to put my money where my mouth is. I tend to think, "each according to their needs, each according to their ability". I am putting myself on the line right here right now, I am writing on this forum entirely following my conscience.
slaar said:Option 1: Face bullets and pipe bombs in Basra and Helmand.
Option 2: Write ill-informed and knee-jerk postings on an anonymous bulletin board, complaining that everyone on said board is either an enemy or a traitor.
The least you could do is not insult people, and accept their might be slightly more subtlety to the events surrounding Iran than "big evil country full of muslim crazies wants to give a nuke to Al Qaeda, so we have to get them".
Plato, you are on my ignore list.
not really but still beats repression and worshipping a book
Oh dear. Does the cluster bomb count as life-saving technology.Greebozz said:The people in Iraqi and Afghanistan are too stupid to be helped, they are basically vengeful tribalistic goat hearders, who have contributed nothing to the world apart from inventing the number zero and saving us all from the stone age because it, apparently. But apart from the fluke of having oil, what has Iran, Iraqi and Saudi Arabia given to the world? What have a achieved? What have they ever invented that has helped humanity.
Just think of all the medical advances and life saving technology that has come from the West. Your arrogance is unbelievable. Our biggest mistake in Iraqi was thinking too highly of the people there, it did not occurred to us that they were murdering savages who would gladly cut-off there nose despite their face.
So sod them basically, let's pull out and let the stupid bastards kill each other.
And another thing, I don't like it when people defend Iran after they had been implicated in the killing of British troops, and I will bloody well say so if it's all the same to you.
Greebozz said:The people in Iraqi and Afghanistan are too stupid to be helped, they are basically vengeful tribalistic goat hearders, who have contributed nothing to the world apart from inventing the number zero and saving us all from the stone age because it, apparently. But apart from the fluke of having oil, what has Iran, Iraqi and Saudi Arabia given to the world? What have a achieved? What have they ever invented that has helped humanity.
Just think of all the medical advances and life saving technology that has come from the West. Your arrogance is unbelievable. Our biggest mistake in Iraqi was thinking too highly of the people there, it did not occurred to us that they were murdering savages who would gladly cut-off there nose despite their face.
So sod them basically, let's pull out and let the stupid bastards kill each other.
And another thing, I don't like it when people defend Iran after they had been implicated in the killing of British troops, and I will bloody well say so if it's all the same to you.
Saalam

So sod them basically, let's pull out and let the stupid bastards kill each other.
And another thing, I don't like it when people defend Iran after they had been implicated in the killing of British troops, and I will bloody well say so if it's all the same to you.
Saalam
I'm saying that if you take other people to task for not sharing your convictions, you yourself should at least live up to those convictions. If you hate Iranians/totalitarians/religious nuts/whatever so very much then the very least you can do is put yourself in harms' way defending your beliefs.Greebozz said:Violent Panda, to be honest I don't fully understand the subtleties between the two branches of Islam, your summing up of conflict between the two I found a helpful.
I don't quite get, this groove you are in about doing my bit for my country, and joining the army. I'm not quite sure if you are just insulting me or are throwing down some kind of genuine challenge to put my money where my mouth is.
That's not "putting yourself on the line", the only "harm" you expose yourself to here is this risk of being made to face your own inadequacies. Psychic harm doesn't count.I tend to think, "each according to their needs, each according to their ability". I am putting myself on the line right here right now, I am writing on this forum entirely following my conscience.
Before you make such crass and ill-informed statements I recommend you (yet again) to familiarise yourself with some basic history, that way you won't be quite so easily tempted to make crass and trollish statements like the above.Greebozz said:The people in Iraqi and Afghanistan are too stupid to be helped, they are basically vengeful tribalistic goat hearders, who have contributed nothing to the world apart from inventing the number zero and saving us all from the stone age because it, apparently. But apart from the fluke of having oil, what has Iran, Iraqi and Saudi Arabia given to the world? What have a achieved? What have they ever invented that has helped humanity.
"Medical advances", eh?Just think of all the medical advances and life saving technology that has come from the West. Your arrogance is unbelievable. Our biggest mistake in Iraqi was thinking too highly of the people there, it did not occurred to us that they were murdering savages who would gladly cut-off there nose despite their face.
So sod them basically, let's pull out and let the stupid bastards kill each other.
And another thing, I don't like it when people defend Iran after they had been implicated in the killing of British troops, and I will bloody well say so if it's all the same to you.
Saalam
Greebozz said:Plato, you are on my ignore list.