Comments | reality_hammer: Who do you believe?

reality_hammer

Who do you believe?

Feb 20, 2008 20:43

There are people who will never believe anything that President Bush says. So when it comes to Iran, what will it take for people to believe that it is seeking nuclear weapons?
BRUSSELS, Belgium - An exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday that Tehran was speeding up a program to develop nuclear weapons. "The Iran regime entered a new ( Read more... )

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jordan179 February 21 2008, 02:02:23 UTC

I'm afraid that a lot of people now hate and distrust Bush -- and have embraced the comforting delusion that no Terrorist States could possibly be building nuclear weapons, to such an extent that they won't believe it until the first bombs start falling. Even then, the most extreme will claim it's a plot by the "Real" CIA, or Dick Cheney, or something like that.

dlombard February 22 2008, 06:40:05 UTC

Yep. The Good Guys may win wars militarily, but the Bad Guys seem to be winning the propaganda war, which is a big problem if you believe we won WWII primarily because the rest of the world was too afraid to F with the US and her allies. Now the world looks at us as too stupid to do anything about it, and the hardest thing to accept is how right we're proving them to be.

The "terrorist" label aside? anonymous February 21 2008, 05:00:09 UTC

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) an alias for the Mujahedin-e Khalq, known as the PMOI, also MEK, MKO has been designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department. According to the U.S. Department of State' presentation of the PMOI, the philosophy of the PMOI is a combination of Marxism, Nationalism and Islam.Human Rights Watch claimed the PMOI were running prison camps within Iraq and were committing severe human rights violations. The report described the PMOI as a cult held under the tight control of Maryam Rajavi, co-leader of Iranian Resistance,a political and feminist activist and the wife of Massoud Rajavi, a founder of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). The President-elect of the NCRI is Maryam Rajavi ( ... )

Re: The "terrorist" label aside? reality_hammer February 21 2008, 05:32:24 UTC

Yes, as in "despite their methods they have provided useful information".

That's the thing about fighting totalitarianism. You often find people fighting fire with fire. Do you ignore their intelligence information because of the source?