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01 August 2009

oh, how i love these guys....

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Larry Bergan8/2/09, 1:13 AM
There ARE decent judges around. I think we will find that any man who was detained, even under these circumstances, will seek to know who was really responsible and will forgive Americans who are the most cleverly propagandized people EVER.
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wimpy8/2/09, 8:16 AM
I think you are right! I think the Iranian government has acted with amazing restraint and gone much further to show fairness in this uproar than any Western government ever would have.

I have been upset that our media has not been covering the fact that the arrests that were made were against people who were rioting, destroying property, attacking the police, etc., committing actual crimes, not just picking them up for being in the protests. 20 dead is nothing to take lightly, but considering that some of those twenty were killed to create more uprising and others in the course of attacking the police, the death toll is amazingly low too.

I'm grateful every day that the Iranian people don't seem inclined to blame the American people, but I'm a little unnerved that too many of them don't really even blame our government either! They won't take our word for how bad it is in certain vital aspects, won't take even solid bits of evidence.

I see a lot of times that they seem shocked, more shocked even than we are, when we do un-American stuff. They have more faith in our justice system than we do, more faith in the myth of Rule of Law than we do, than is warranted anymore.

This has been such an intensely dangerous episode, and I am more relieved than I can possibly express that Russia has made an overt move to show solidarity with Iran. It has eased my mounting fears of World War III considerably. We're still not out of the woods, but we now have a chance, a clear shot at working this out without a global conflagration.

Great to see you again, Larry.
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wimpy8/2/09, 2:56 PM
Well, crikey, I guess it would have helped if I had more coffee in me when I responded to you... my mind was still on the posts before this one... the trials of the protesters and the arrests of the Americans in Iran....

So, yes, anyway, you have a good point on THIS subject, too.

I tellz yiz, ANYTHING can go wrong when I'm not caffeinated enough....
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Larry Bergan8/2/09, 10:30 PM
No worries 99! Keep up the good work!
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wimpy8/2/09, 10:48 PM
Thanks. :o)
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