Comments on: Iran: Stop Calling Us 'Axis Of Evil'

Former Iranian President Urges Bush To Cease Strategic Namecalling

[themooniac]

Geez, spare me the anti-americanism. If America was the monster you make it out to be we could have nuked everyone and taken over the world in 1946 when no one else had the bomb. Your comments are just revisionist B.S. I think Japan and Germany turned out pretty well after their occupation (who provoked those wars?) and South Korea has'nt fared to bad either. In some cases a nation of diverse immigrants like America might indeed have the best ideas about what goes on in the world. What do modern Americans have to do with the Mexican war anyway? My grandparents arrived legally in the US in the twenties. My guess is half the country's current heritage now dates from the immigration of the twenties or later. Why don't we just persecute Italians for the actions of the Romans?? You know all these countries in the world have been carved out by blood at some point or another. Do you think they all came about by some stone age agreement over tea and crumpets?? If you believe that go ask your neighbor for half his property and see what he says.

[exusmcsgt]

grumpas-

I could not agree more. Since we invented a pretext to attack Mexico and take half their country because they refused to sell it to us, such has been the practice. America presumes to know what's best for all inhabitants of the planet - what's good for America is good for everyone. Not so.

[grumpas]

I am with whoever said! Why can Israel have nukes but her Muslim neighbor's can't? It seems extremely hypocritical to me! We give ourselves the right to pick and choose who we want to have nuclear weapons and who can't! When there is nothing any more terrifying on earth than George W Bush with nuclear weapons!!!! I personally think we have gotten far to imperialistic for our own good! We seem to think we know what is best for countries like Iraq (which is why the country in now a disaster area)! When in all reality what is good for us is not necessarily good for someone else! I think it's time for our leaders to take care of business at home, it has been sorely neglected these past 6 years!

[exusmcsgt]

gaye5-

P.S. Ihave studied the Crusades (all 14 of them) and find enough of murder and slaughter and persecution on both sides to preclude either from claiming moral superiority.

[exusmcsgt]

gaye5-

Your justification of our using nukes on Japan is a little short-sighted, if I may say so. True, nuking Japan ended the war sooner, but at the cost of slaughtering hundreds of thousands of civilian non-combatants. Not to mention causing generations of birth defects. I have been to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I don't know if you have, but I suspect not.

Slaughtering civilians is no justification for the facilitation of military objectives.

In regards to Jews and Christians not slaughtering Muslims, let me direct you to Palestine and Lebannon. sure, the Israelis do the killing by the hundreds, but we support them financially and are their 800 pound gorilla at the U.N.

[gaye5]

exusmcsgt, as terrible as leveling Hiroshima and Nagasaki was, if the powers to be then hadn't done that, the war would have gone on for more years, and even Australia was intended to be taken by Japan, they even had a go at bombing Darwin. In the process many thousands of men, women and children on both sides would have been killed, probably more than was killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki... and we all would not now be worrying about Islam.. there wouldnt be a we....!!!!...
In regards to what you said about religious fanatacism, I find no shortage of it among the Christians and Jews.
I totally agree with you, and we also have fanatics in football, league, boat clubs, and anywhere else where there are humans, but you dont find these fanatic Christians and Jews slaughtering tens of thousands of non Jews, and Christians, and please dont bring up the Crusaders, you need to read the real reason that the crusaders started fighting, and of course it couldnt have been to stop the march of Islam would it...

[gaye5]

This is so funny, in the Quran the infidel, Jews and Christians are called terrible names, and Muslims today do the same, but as usual Muslims don't like anyone calling them names. These poor dear people will say that we are persecuting them or being aggressive thus it gives them the right to go to war against us to stop what they call aggression..
It appears to me that Muslims are like bad children. Bullies like hurting other children, making their lives a misery, but if that child dares to retaliate, look out...
Muslims who are the cause of non-stop world wide violence, say that we should not call them evil. They can sit down amongst a group of school children, go into churches, temples, synagogues, shopping centers etc and blow themselves up putting rat poison on the shrapnel in their bombs so those who only get a scratch will still bleed to death. They can rape torture and slaughter tens of thousands of people every year just because they don't believe in the same god, , and they say we should not call them evil... hmmmm we had better do what our leaders and the Pope did, and appease them!!!! ok they are not evil .... History has proven that you can not appease an aggressor, and it appears that we dont learn from history.

[exusmcsgt]

gmacdaddydog-

To realize that everything America does is not just does not make one naive nor unpatriotic. Obviously nukes are just fine for Christians and Jews, just not for Muslims.

In regards to religious fanatacism, I find no shortage of it among the Christians and Jews.

I do not justify terrorism such as 9/11. Neither do I refuse to see the terrorism in leveling Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons.

[themooniac]

Easy, because Israel has'nt used any nukes (or they could have nuked these people already) and has proved itself responsible in that regard. When the Islamists get the bomb they'll start killing each other, Shiite vs Sunni for one, and anyone else that does'nt agree with their religion. Do you really think these are responsible societies or extremist societies????? They'll "martyr" themselves and everyone else to death with nukes - all in the name of Allah.

[im3000]

Why can isreal have nukes but not their neighbors? Who's really provoking the reaction here?

[grizzlyzone]

Just wait a gosh *** moment. Aren't these the same folks that have daily US flag burnings, burn our president in effigy, held our embassy staff hostage and generally refers to us as "the Great Satan"?

'Axis of Evil' is rather mild. Considering.

[themooniac]

As a Democrat I have one thing to say: F**k Rafsanjani.

AXiS oF EViL? Hey this is the name of a band out of Franklin, Wisconsin!! This band is an outlet for collective rage, desire, and angst. A way of expelling the anger that builds up inside while trying to deal with day-to-day life.

You, Mr. Iran "Ooola Boola", when I was in Nam,
they told us stop calling the Vietnamese "*****",
so, we started calling them "zipperheads".
So, you don't like the phrase "Axis Of Evil",
well, well, Mr. Iran Ooola Boola, LIVE WITH IT!

[gmacdaddydog]

exusmcsgt:

Many of us civilians appreciate your past protection of our freedoms. But to you finewoven & pakaal, the U.S. and Christians are not the villians.

Wake up and live in reality - not some conspiracy world: "the Zionist Jews and their US supporters or "the Industrial Military Complex are going to control the world" fantasy land.

The civilized countries of the world have found by experience that Nuclear build-up is the wrong road. For years the U.S. and Europe/Russia have been actively trying to reduce the world's nuclear stock piles.

The intolerant are the extremists and it seems clear that the most extreme in our world are the percentage of fascists that have hijacked Islam.

[exusmcsgt]

finewoven-

It's called "demonization" and has been used for centuries - especially by the "self-righteous"...

[one_american]

Maybe if Iran would stop calling for the destruction of Israel, and stop sponsoring terrorism and sending their terrorists throughout the Middle East, we wouldn't have to call them part of the "Axis of Evil".

Whine on, Iran!

[finewoven]

This is so true. Is there anything harder to accept than having Evangelicals refer to another as evil, as if they%u2019re the authority on what defines the word. And especially when the word is aimed at describing a political environment. Granted, I would consider some of the viewpoints of people from these countries as %u201Cignorant,%u201D but using the word evil should be reserved for real and provable circumstances. Otherwise it is a red herring meant to confuse and cause resentment, and becomes a suggestion toward the intended insult. A case in point, Nazi Germany prior at the beginning World War II sent V-bombs over London, that when they ran out of gas, they dropped and caused death and destruction. That was evil. Palestinians militants who sent up rockets that are aimed at civilian populations. That was evil. These are demonstratable, and Iran has not been accused of these things.

[olebd]

OOPS! I meant INDIA. Got my articles mixed up in my head.

[olebd]

Sorry Iran....Looks like we chose Pakistan as our NEW nuclear b-i-t-c-h. Guess we can't demand YOU not have them anymore(?) Ah but , then again, we probably will.

Forget global warming, natural disasters, asteroids....These nuts (and perhaps ours) will cause the destruction of earth someday.