Answering the Critics Part 2
The second comment comes from "there's 'ignorant'", who I'm guessing is the aforementioned "Dave Edwards". Whoever it is, he writes:
How democratic is a nation in which the final say of the parliament is trumped by the mullah-ocracy? In the United States, or the United Kingdom, or even France and Germany, leaders are elected by the people, or appointed by the elected officials. In Iran, the mullahs appoint the mullahs, not the people, and that body of mullahs, and specifically the Supreme Leader (formerly Ayatollah Khomeini, currently Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei) have final say in all aspects of Iranian life. When a person who runs a newspaper can be jailed at the will of the theocratic thugs, calling Iran the most democratic nation in the region is akin to calling a Coca Cola bottle full of dynamite the most stable object in a room full of atomic bombs.
A hundred thousand "brown people" do bother me. If you're citing the erroneous claim that over a hundred thousand Iraqi citizens have died since the invasion, then you should check your facts. I would also point out that it was hundreds of thousands every year under the Hussein regime, some of them for no better reason than Saddam needed to make examples of people in order to keep entire villages in fear.
Galloway's actions are more than a "sketchy business deal", and the fact that you can't recognize that leads me to seriously question your credibility and your critical thinking skills. The War on Terror is not a war against "people we don't like", it's a war against people who want to destroy every semblance of freedom in the world. It's not a war of imperialism, it's a war of self defense.
Tracking "corruption" in the Middle East is redundant. The most democratic country in the region is Iran. "Look, somebody we don't like did something 'illegal'!" If a hundred thousand dead brown people don't bother you, you'll have to forgive us if some British guy's alleged sketchy business deal doesn't bother us.
How democratic is a nation in which the final say of the parliament is trumped by the mullah-ocracy? In the United States, or the United Kingdom, or even France and Germany, leaders are elected by the people, or appointed by the elected officials. In Iran, the mullahs appoint the mullahs, not the people, and that body of mullahs, and specifically the Supreme Leader (formerly Ayatollah Khomeini, currently Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei) have final say in all aspects of Iranian life. When a person who runs a newspaper can be jailed at the will of the theocratic thugs, calling Iran the most democratic nation in the region is akin to calling a Coca Cola bottle full of dynamite the most stable object in a room full of atomic bombs.
A hundred thousand "brown people" do bother me. If you're citing the erroneous claim that over a hundred thousand Iraqi citizens have died since the invasion, then you should check your facts. I would also point out that it was hundreds of thousands every year under the Hussein regime, some of them for no better reason than Saddam needed to make examples of people in order to keep entire villages in fear.
Galloway's actions are more than a "sketchy business deal", and the fact that you can't recognize that leads me to seriously question your credibility and your critical thinking skills. The War on Terror is not a war against "people we don't like", it's a war against people who want to destroy every semblance of freedom in the world. It's not a war of imperialism, it's a war of self defense.
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