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ocpagu

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14. I wonder...

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2011, 02:13 AM

Dec 2011

... why does the Iranian nuclear programme is considered "controversial", since they are not the ones pretending not to have nukes in the Middle East...

And let us go pretending Saudi Arabia and the other Western-friendly brutal dictactorships are a myth.

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Iranian president to visit Venezuela, Cuba [View all] Bacchus4.0 Dec 2011 OP

OH NOES!!! krucial Dec 2011 #1

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100413050415AAu9dxs ChangoLoa Dec 2011 #10

Birds of a feather flock together Zorro Dec 2011 #2

Yeah... ocpagu Dec 2011 #3

they certainly don't like a free press n/t Bacchus4.0 Dec 2011 #4

They also don't like oil looters. ocpagu Dec 2011 #5

they sell oil to the US, Iran might not too much longer, Cuba doesn't Bacchus4.0 Dec 2011 #6

? ocpagu Dec 2011 #7

who are the oil looters?? n/t Bacchus4.0 Dec 2011 #8

Irony apart, who is "us"? ChangoLoa Dec 2011 #9

I think its a simplistic "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" foreign policy approach Bacchus4.0 Dec 2011 #11

Of course... naaman fletcher Dec 2011 #12

Yeah, if you gotta have markets, social democracies are the best way to do it. joshcryer Dec 2011 #13

I wonder... ocpagu Dec 2011 #14

Iran's government is hardly worse than Saudi Arabia's as to tyranny... Peace Patriot Jan 2012 #15