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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

if Americans protested like Iranians



I'm not encouraging violence but I have to admit I respect what the people in Iran are protesting against, I don't know if Mousavi in saying that the election is fraud but the people are convinced, and there is no way they will let a coup take place in their government.

Imagine if Americans protested like that.

For instance the 2000 US Presidential Elections which saw Al Gore get 51,003,926 in the popular vote and George W. Bush get 50,460,110, we all know who became president and led the United States into a brutal war in Iraq which made most of their allies and the world hate him.

And what did the American do when this big injustice was made in 2000, apart from egg his limo on that rainy day of his inauguration while holding signs saying things like 'a sad day'.

Yet Bush still got two terms and made the world hate America with his wars and economic policy, what if Americans had been like Iranians after the fraud that was the 2000 election, maybe the last eight years

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

The role of the media in the South Ossetia War



Remember the 8th of August this year when the news clearly stated that Russia was invading Georgia?
Like literally attacking the vulnerable sovereign state of Georgia for no reason, Russia obviously did this because they were bad and for those few days Iraq and Afghanistan weren't comparable and neither logic.

Apparently because of the Olympic games Georgia's brutal attack on South Ossetia went unreported in the main stream media, but when Russia launched its counter attack deep into Georgia, then it was reported about the attack on South Ossetia and that it was the Georgian president who had lied, but that Russia had taken the incident to invade Georgia like they had always wanted to since 1991.

But that's the problem, it's obviously clear that the Russians simply moved in, cleaned up the hostile areas (since Russia citizens in South Ossetia were under attack), bolstered their defences in South Ossetia and then pulled out of Georgia, yet it's called an international crisis for what Russia did in the counter attack, and suddenly South Ossetia is recognized as an independent state.

I mean serious c'mon!


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