Is War With Iran Necessary?

[Stealth Hunter]

Originally Posted by August

Yeah well some of us are still pissed at Iran for taking our people hostage for 444 days then later electing one of the main conspirators as their president.

Then go outside and start yelling "Death to Iran!". Maybe burn a flag or two while you're at it.

Originally Posted by August

How does that compare to reluctantly allowing a dying man access to medical treatment?

Iranian Political Prisoners:

-100,000 incarcerated
-tortured, mistreated, some even killed
-regularly beaten and starved
-most given life sentences

Hostages of the Iran Hostage Crisis:

-52 captured and held for 444 days
-mistreated and threatened
-denied some basic privileges
-13 released before January 1981


I'd sure as hell prefer to be a hostage over a political prisoner. That "dying man" was a butcher, another Caligula. Yes, he started out as a good leader, but over the years, he became more and more snobbish and distanced from his people. You know he held the twenty-fifth-hundredth anniversary of the Iranian monarchy not but a few miles from several villages that were basically consisting of nothing more than mud hovels? What's worse is that the people there were starving, AND he spent $100,000,000 on the celebration alone...