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M Dogg™:

--- Quote from: V2DHeart on May 02, 2012, 11:42:20 AM ---We've seen too much of the same thing in our history. A person is believed to have committed this mass murder, or crime, and the West run in to save the day, and liberate the people.

I know a few people in Iran, who I used to speak with, and who were going to assist me only last year in getting a visa, transport and accomodation. I've heard nothing but praise. It's a lovely country, however ask the average joe bloggs here in the UK/US, and they will disagree telling all sorts of fictional storys of masked men beheading you on every corner, and how dangerous it is. A close friend of mine has visited Tehran before, and done all the walks and various shack stays, and everything I've heard from friends and on various travel forums including tripadvisor has been nothing but how nice the people are. How friendly they are. How one guy in the street stopped what he was doing to lead this women a mile up the road to show her to her destination. These are the kind of things you would never imagine, but there's another side to these places, and a whole other side to the people that run the country.

Go to New York city, and you think you'd get the same treatment and level of hospitality? lol. By anyones standards, if a country was based on how well they treat each other and strangers, then the US would be one of the shyttyest countries out there, with UK being right at the back of them

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My father in-law worked for years in Iran. He didn't speak much about it to my wife, but he did eventually leave to immigrate to the United States. He was an engineer, so he traveled to find a job. So I can't really speak to the politics of Iran. But I know IRAQ with Saddam had some issues. People I know who went there before the war in 2003 said people were afraid to talk for fear of secret police. Saddam ran the country as a total police state. Does that mean he killed hundreds of Kurds, maybe, maybe not. As I said, Saddam blamed Iran. But he was not seen as a hero in Iraq, though some saw him as a protector because he was Sunni and the Shi'ite had the majority of the country. It would be like a black person being president of the United States and then forcing white people to accept this and treat the blacks as a ruling class. This is how people described Iraq who had actually been there. Did they think Saddam needed to be taken out, no; as the people I talked to said that the people of Iraq did not want a war in their country. Should we have gone to war with Iraq, no, as it made Iraq worst. But does this mean Saddam was a good person, no, he was a true police state dictator. But if we went to war with every police state dictator then we'd never, ever be out of war.

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