Isn't it funny. OK, maybe more odd than funny in our usual sense of the word funny, or maybe both? OH! What is funny, you ask?
Have you seen the pictures of the prostesters and demonstrators in Iran? There are over 100 Thousand of them in the area from where that picture was taken. Today.
They look just like us. They look like people that are living their daily lives doing whatever it is that they do. They look like they would appreciate more freedom rather than less. They look like Mothers and Fathers. Sisters and Brothers. Friends and family.
They look like people. People with the same wants, needs, dreams and cares that you and I have. Just people.
Isn't it funny, or odd how some other people cannot understand that simple reality? To put the idea into perspective, let's have a look at those odd people that cannot fathom the fact that the People that live in Iran are just People.
This may not be a person, but more of a corporate entity. Anyway, from Dick Cheney on May 13, 2009.
From Newsmax
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says the only way for President Barack Obama’s diplomacy with Iran to work is if Obama threatens to bomb the country.
"We fail to recognize the fact that we're alone out there in terms of trying to achieve the objective of forcing the Iranians to give up their nuclear weapons," Politico quotes Cheney as saying, referring to the efforts of European nations to "restrain the U.S." from military action.
"Everybody’s in a giant conspiracy to achieve a different objective than the one we want to achieve," Cheney said, adding that negotiations to halt Iran’s nuclear program are "bound to fail unless we are perceived as very credible" in threatening military action.
"Most of the other nations out there are willing to live with a nuclear-armed Iran," he said, noting that negotiating with Iran to end its nuclear program is merely an attempt by that country to stall for time.
It would seem that the corporate entity doesn't understand that there ARE even people. There are only objectives to be acheived and possible conspiracies to thwart those corporate objectives.
Another person that told President Bush back in 2007 that he should bomb more people than he already had was Norman Podhoretz.
From UK Times Online
ONE of the founding fathers of neoconservatism has privately urged President George W Bush to bomb Iran rather than allow it to acquire nuclear weapons.
Norman Podhoretz, an intellectual guru of the neoconservative movement who has joined Rudolph Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser, held an unpublicised meeting with Bush late last spring at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York.
The encounter reveals the enduring influence of the neoconservatives at the highest reaches of the White House, despite some high-profile casualties in the past year.
Karl Rove, who was still serving in the White House as Bush’s deputy chief of staff, took notes. But the meeting, which lasted 45 minutes, was not logged on the president’s schedule.
I urged Bush to take action against the Iranian nuclear facilities and explained why I thought there was no alternative," said Podhoretz, 77, in an interview with The Sunday Times.
"I laid out the worst-case scenario – bombing Iran – versus the worst-case consequences of allowing the Iranians to get the bomb."
He also told Bush: "You have the awesome responsibility to prevent another holocaust. You’re the only one with the guts to do it." The president looked very solemn, Podhoretz said.
The awesome responsibility to bomb people. Norm doesn't seem to understand people. Intellectualy guru's of neoconservatism don't seem to realize the individual countries of the world are made up of people. Just worse-case-scenario's.
Is there more? Oh, HELL YES!
Rudy Guliani.
John McCain.
Holy Joe Lieberman.
Limpbaugh.
The usual losers, plus many many more. You can use teh Google to find these links if you need to. Or, you can just believe me on this one.
Iran is a country. The United States of America is a country. Hell, even Andorra is a country. Andorra may not include many people, yet they are human. They look just like us. They look like people that are living their daily lives doing whatever it is that they do. They look like they would appreciate more freedom rather than less. They look like Mothers and Fathers. Sisters and Brothers. Friends and family.
They look like people. People with the same wants, needs, dreams and cares that you and I have. Just people.
Funny how only some people can visualize the reality of that simple fact.
Odd how others cannot. Or, will not.
x-posted at ProgressiveBlue.com