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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-11-08 02:31 PM
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4. Persia was the birth place of Human Rights. A copy of the scroll on Human Rights by Cyrus the Great
is on display at the UN. Bush will destroy more than Persian history. It's actually part of our history too. Many of the concepts of freedom in our Constitution actually come from the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great. Especially freedom of religion. At the time of the founding of our country The Cyropaedia (The education of Cyrus) by Xenophon was required reading for diplomats. You can conquor a land. But you cannot crush the spirit of the people by depriving them of their past. Apparently that is what Bush and squad of revisioniost historians want to do. I also agree that an attack upon Iran will turn the region into a fireball.
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