[ExI] The Death Toll Imbalance in the Mideast War (Was: Mary Magdelene?/was Re: Iran's plan for their gay population)

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 23:06:05 UTC 2009


2009/6/9 painlord2k at libero.it <painlord2k at libero.it>:
> Well, in Iraq you can publish a paper and criticize, heavily, the government
> and the government will not close the journal nor will jail the publisher
> and the journalists. In Iran the jail is the better part of what would happen.

Really? I am just back from Iran, and beliveve me, the electoral
campaign is being fought much harder, and is followed with more
interest by a population that votes at age 16 in the percentage of 85
per cent, than in most western countries.

> The shoe thrower would have never, ever, think to do the same with Mubarak
> or Saddam or Armadinejad because they would have him jailed forever or
> swiftly killed, and probably his family too would had many problems.

Isn't Mubarak the darling of the West in the region (as, btw, Saddam
himself used to be for a long time)?

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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