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		<title>By: G.A.Phillips</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069725</link>
		<dc:creator>G.A.Phillips</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;So we can assume that you and the other right wing freedom fighters are on the way to Tehran to take your principals to the streets?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Stawdonkey, what are you doing?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>So we can assume that you and the other right wing freedom fighters are on the way to Tehran to take your principals to the streets?</p></blockquote>
<p>Stawdonkey, what are you doing?</p>
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		<title>By: anjin-san</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069686</link>
		<dc:creator>anjin-san</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

So we can assume that you and the other right wing freedom fighters are on the way to Tehran to take your principals to the streets?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.</p></blockquote>
<p>So we can assume that you and the other right wing freedom fighters are on the way to Tehran to take your principals to the streets?</p>
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		<title>By: G.A.Phillips</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069536</link>
		<dc:creator>G.A.Phillips</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. 

Thomas Paine, Dissertation on First Principles of Government, December 23, 1791&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. </p>
<p>Thomas Paine, Dissertation on First Principles of Government, December 23, 1791</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: anjin-san</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069495</link>
		<dc:creator>anjin-san</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Ajin, try your junk on someone who hasn&#039;t been around to see you playing your game for a while. It&#039;s not selling, here.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

In other words, you can&#039;t even come up with one of your lame BS comebacks. But you are correct, the game of &quot;slap the pinhead around&quot; that I play with you is old. Like I said earlier, I can&#039;t even call you a moron anymore, you don&#039;t rise to that level.

Hey, how about that big McCain comeback win you called  :p</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Ajin, try your junk on someone who hasn't been around to see you playing your game for a while. It's not selling, here.</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, you can't even come up with one of your lame BS comebacks. But you are correct, the game of "slap the pinhead around" that I play with you is old. Like I said earlier, I can't even call you a moron anymore, you don't rise to that level.</p>
<p>Hey, how about that big McCain comeback win you called  :p</p>
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		<title>By: G.A.Phillips</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069478</link>
		<dc:creator>G.A.Phillips</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. 

John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. </p>
<p>John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765</p>
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		<title>By: Eric Florack</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric Florack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ajin, try your junk on someone who hasn&#039;t been around to see you playing your game for a while. It&#039;s not selling, here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ajin, try your junk on someone who hasn't been around to see you playing your game for a while. It's not selling, here.</p>
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		<title>By: G.A.Phillips</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069450</link>
		<dc:creator>G.A.Phillips</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>lol, I said chesse.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>lol, I said chesse.....</p>
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		<title>By: Eric Florack</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069443</link>
		<dc:creator>Eric Florack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;There is not a single word in that rambling screed that in any way answers the question.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Yes, it did. And, directly so. I even asked you to explain to me how my answer falls outside your criteria. The answer, however is clear, despite your not having given it... That my answers to your questions don&#039;t match your narrow worldview is not my problem. It&#039;s your lack.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>There is not a single word in that rambling screed that in any way answers the question.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, it did. And, directly so. I even asked you to explain to me how my answer falls outside your criteria. The answer, however is clear, despite your not having given it... That my answers to your questions don't match your narrow worldview is not my problem. It's your lack.</p>
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		<title>By: G.A.Phillips</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069438</link>
		<dc:creator>G.A.Phillips</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hate bush, I hate neocons, i play cheese, yada yada yada....

Two questions, whats does neocon mean to you?

And do you seriously think I can replace the styling of the TelePrompter? I do, but that beside the point......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hate bush, I hate neocons, i play cheese, yada yada yada....</p>
<p>Two questions, whats does neocon mean to you?</p>
<p>And do you seriously think I can replace the styling of the TelePrompter? I do, but that beside the point......</p>
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		<title>By: DL</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069371</link>
		<dc:creator>DL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Objective observers in the face of evil don&#039;t deserve the freedom they have. At least, pick a side, buy some pom poms, and cheer like hell.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Objective observers in the face of evil don't deserve the freedom they have. At least, pick a side, buy some pom poms, and cheer like hell.</p>
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		<title>By: An Interested Party</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069250</link>
		<dc:creator>An Interested Party</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a HREF=&quot;http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=22932&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This post&lt;/A&gt; makes a very good point...it&#039;s not right vs. left on the issue of whether the president should do more...it&#039;s more like neocons vs. everybody else...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a HREF="http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=22932" rel="nofollow">This post</a> makes a very good point...it's not right vs. left on the issue of whether the president should do more...it's more like neocons vs. everybody else...</p>
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		<title>By: Janis Gore</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069249</link>
		<dc:creator>Janis Gore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We have no authority in the Middle East.  We have suggestion.

To balance the image of Neda dying, we have the image of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-iraq-photostory0119,0,5445645.photogallery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this child&lt;/a&gt; whose parents were killed at a checkpoint in Iraq.

Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wocheck0120,0,532599.story?coll=ny-world-big-pix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Newsday&lt;/a&gt;, via Radley Balko.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have no authority in the Middle East.  We have suggestion.</p>
<p>To balance the image of Neda dying, we have the image of <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-iraq-photostory0119,0,5445645.photogallery" rel="nofollow">this child</a> whose parents were killed at a checkpoint in Iraq.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wocheck0120,0,532599.story?coll=ny-world-big-pix" rel="nofollow">Newsday</a>, via Radley Balko.</p>
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		<title>By: anjin-san</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069243</link>
		<dc:creator>anjin-san</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Aren&#039;t you surprised about how little game Erick and his cohort have? They&#039;ve literally got nothing but bluster&lt;/blockquote&gt;

No surprise at all. Go back and look at ol&#039; Eric&#039;s predictions for the 2008 election. He got it about as wrong as humanly possible, all the while damn near giving himself tendinitis from patting himself on the back for being so clever.

One aspect of this that we have to keep in mind is that there are millions upon millions of very sophisticated, highly educated people in Iran who are very capable of seeing through the faux concern from the American right about their well being and are probably not very happy about the fact that Krauthammer &amp; co. are trying to pimp their sacrifices for domestic political gain.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Aren't you surprised about how little game Erick and his cohort have? They've literally got nothing but bluster</p></blockquote>
<p>No surprise at all. Go back and look at ol' Eric's predictions for the 2008 election. He got it about as wrong as humanly possible, all the while damn near giving himself tendinitis from patting himself on the back for being so clever.</p>
<p>One aspect of this that we have to keep in mind is that there are millions upon millions of very sophisticated, highly educated people in Iran who are very capable of seeing through the faux concern from the American right about their well being and are probably not very happy about the fact that Krauthammer &amp; co. are trying to pimp their sacrifices for domestic political gain.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Reynolds</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Reynolds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anjin-san:

Aren&#039;t you surprised about how little game Erick and his cohort have?  They&#039;ve literally got nothing but bluster.  

It makes you wonder how different the world might have been if we&#039;d questioned these people a little more closely before Iraq. Once they get done posturing and bluffing they&#039;ve got nothing.

There&#039;s no there there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anjin-san:</p>
<p>Aren't you surprised about how little game Erick and his cohort have?  They've literally got nothing but bluster.  </p>
<p>It makes you wonder how different the world might have been if we'd questioned these people a little more closely before Iraq. Once they get done posturing and bluffing they've got nothing.</p>
<p>There's no there there.</p>
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		<title>By: anjin-san</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/watching_the_fall_of_islamic_theocracy/comment-page-2/#comment-1069214</link>
		<dc:creator>anjin-san</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Mr. Obama could and should have spoken up at once, telling Iran’s current leadership that the way it treats its opponents will determine its place in the world going forward. But no, that calls for a real leader.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

When has the current leadership of Iran given any indication that it gives a rat&#039;s ass about world opinion or how other countries define their place in the world? 

Obama is playing it cool, which is a hell of a lot smarter than trying to bluff when you don&#039;t really hold any cards. 

If the people of Iran want to be free, they will have to earn it the hard way, with blood, sweat, sacrifice and tears. We are all pulling for them. But it is something they have to want badly enough to make it a reality.

Let&#039;s abandon this fiction that the right gives a crap about Iran. The game here is hurt Obama any way possible. Keep slinging the shit, and maybe sooner or later, something will stick. After the disaster that was the Bush Presidency, slinging shit is all they have left.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Mr. Obama could and should have spoken up at once, telling Iran&rsquo;s current leadership that the way it treats its opponents will determine its place in the world going forward. But no, that calls for a real leader.</p></blockquote>
<p>When has the current leadership of Iran given any indication that it gives a rat's ass about world opinion or how other countries define their place in the world? </p>
<p>Obama is playing it cool, which is a hell of a lot smarter than trying to bluff when you don't really hold any cards. </p>
<p>If the people of Iran want to be free, they will have to earn it the hard way, with blood, sweat, sacrifice and tears. We are all pulling for them. But it is something they have to want badly enough to make it a reality.</p>
<p>Let's abandon this fiction that the right gives a crap about Iran. The game here is hurt Obama any way possible. Keep slinging the shit, and maybe sooner or later, something will stick. After the disaster that was the Bush Presidency, slinging shit is all they have left.</p>
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