Iran labels CIA 'terrorist organization'

[2rth2pwr]

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the U.S. Army "terrorist organizations," in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070929/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_us

The hard-line dominated parliament cited U.S. involvement in dropping nuclear bombs in Japan in World War II, using depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, supporting the killings of Palestinians by Israel, bombing and killing Iraqi civilians, and torturing terror suspects in prisons.

"The aggressor U.S. Army and the Central Intelligence Agency are terrorists and also nurture terror," said a statement by the 215 lawmakers who signed the resolution at an open session of the Iranian parliament. The session was broadcast live on state-run radio.

The resolution, which is seen as a diplomatic offensive against the U.S., urges Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government to treat the two as terrorist organizations. It also paves the way for the resolution to become legislation that — if ratified by the country's hardline constitutional watchdog — would become law. The government is expected to wait for U.S. reaction before making its decision.


Many here will agree.


(Edited to add linky thing)

[orpupilofnature57]

1. I do

http://tomflocco.com/Docs/63/BushJfkBookDepo.htm

[GeminiProgressive]

2. even a stopped clock...........

[2rth2pwr]

4. A Tom Flocco fan!

Isn't he the one who claimed that Barbara Olsen is still alive and was arrested on the "Polish-Austrian" border?
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3617

[Kuni]

3. Didn’t the CIA also label itself that, when it recently released a bunch of documents?

Like those failed murder attempts, like hiring a criminal organization to assassinate a head of state.

[2rth2pwr]

5. I'm waiting for someone to criticize Iran for "banging the drums for war" nt

[Bucky]

7. I am so pissed off about Iran "banging the drums for war"

Happy?

The real difference here, the lack of parallelism here, is that what the US Congress says matters.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. Iran and the US are a lot alike, it is true.

[lazer47]

8. The only difference between them and US is that

their bombs are carried by people who blow themselves up, ours on the other hand come from 30,000 ft and will come thru. the front window,,,,

[jenmito]

9. I think you're confusing them with Saudis and other Sunnis

The suicide bombers are al Qaeda Sunnis. The Iranians are Shiites.

[lazer47]

11. I think both sides have done enough including US

[jenmito]

13. Yes, but the "strapping bombs to themselves" is the Sunnis...

of course this admin. never mentions how the Saudis are supplying the Sunnis in Iraq with funding, weapons, AND suicide bombers.

[jschurchin]

10. The CIA, a terrorist organization?

Imagine that:sarcasm:

[jenmito]

12. O/T, but isn't Ahmadinejad a conservative...like the RWers here?

I don't know why the Repubs. always talk about the libs. being like the religious extremistw. Although Ahmadinejad claimed there are no gay people in Iran, the cons. here WISH there were no gay people here, and they deny them rights, too.

[Kuni]

14. He and Bush sound identical. Can hardly tell them apart.

If you read their comments without attribution; you’d be hard pressed to guess which one of the two said what.

[jenmito]

15. I agree...

it's scary to think how much they're alike, including the looking forward to the end of the world in the case of the Pat Robertsons of this country.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

16. Try looking at their positions on any issue you can think of.

Gay rights, womens' rights, crime and punishment, religious freedom, freedom of expression, conduct of elections.

On all of those, they're miles apart.

Ahmadinejad makes Bush look like Ghandi.

[jenmito]

18. Looking at it from where...what the Bush admin. tells us?

Conservatives are much closer to Ahmadinejad's views than liberals.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

19. From the facts, of course.

Conservatives are undeniably closer to Ahmadinejad's positions than liberals; however, he's a lot more extreme than all but the fringemost fringes of American conservatism - far, far, *far* worse than Bush.

[jenmito]

23. I wouldn't go that "far"

I'd leave out two or all three of your "far"s. :)

[Kuni]

20. No, they are a lot closer than you imply.

What happens if the Fringe, with the help of the two Supreme Court Judges Bush appointed, overturns Roe v Wade and States make abortion illegal and doctors continue to perform them? You don’t think that those Doctors won’t get charged?

And that will be different from how Iran treats those it charges with bogus laws; how?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

21. Because they won't be executed the way Iran executes homosexuals?

The difference really is immense.

[Kuni]

24. If the Fringe makes abortion illegal in a death penalty state; and a doctor gets charged. . .

the difference is going to be what?

[jenmito]

25. Good question!

:hi:

[Donald Ian Rankin]

26. Death penalty state =/= state where all crimes are punishable by death.

I have no doubt that there are American Christian conservatives who would like to see abortionists executed.

They are, however, politically negligable; there is no chance whatsoever of their succeeding.

Even if the right gets its way and abortion does become illegal in all or parts of America, it will never be punished by execution, because advocating doing so would be electoral suicide.

Nothing whatsoever like Iran.

Also, note that all this about America is phrased in terms of "if", where the "if is in fact very unlikely - "if" is a weasely word, because it sounds like it implies "is", but actually usually means "is not". In Iran, however, the execution of homosexuals is very much a reality.

[Kuni]

27. No chance? Tell that to Bush and the 2 activist Judges he appointed to the SCOTUS.

They have already started; when they overruled real medical professionals and listened to the Witch Doctors (i.e. Wingnut Theologians) on the Fringe regarding a medical procedure used in late term abortions.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

28. All I can say is "evidence"?

There is not one shred of evidence that Bush, or any of the Supreme Court justices want to see abortion punished by death, and everything about their other views and political positions makes it blindingly obvious that they don't.

Yes, they've moved *in that direction*. In the same way, I want to see higher taxes. That's a move in the direction of Communism; it doesn't mean I want to see that motion continued all that way.

[Kuni]

29. And they think the States that pass laws against abortion, aren’t going to enforce them?

Tell me another one. They know the outcome if Roe v Wade is overturned. And they want Roe v Wade overturned.

[Kelly Rupert]

17. How dare they! Clearly a declaration of war!

:eyes:

[polichick]

22. What goes around comes around...

Sometimes very quickly.

[goodgd_yall]

30. Yep---bad precedent that Lieberman/Kyl n/t