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To: Hoosier-Daddy

“Serbs would give them weapons. So would the Israelis, I would imagine.”

I doubt the Israelis are stupid enough to start arming an unknown quantity formed out of a nation that has historically hated them.

This is an amazing video, and shows incredible bravery...but lets face it, blowing yourself is also an act of personal bravery, contemptible as the desired results may be. And Islam has no shortage of people being willing to blow themselves up. This hardly makes them the second coming of the Continental Army.

A lot of people seem to be hoping that George Washington is right now crossing the Rubicon in Iran...the reality is that the revolutionaries are probably as bad or worse than the current government.

A revolution whose goals are true individual liberty, like our American revolution, is very rare. Our Founding Fathers wanted to be free. They didn’t want to dominate us. They didn’t feel oppressed by their own citizens, and wish to conduct reprisals. Most Brit sympathizers left after the war...they weren’t persecuted...I predict in this revolution, they will be “correcting” past evils for decades. For a leader who truly loves and understand freedom to spring up in Iran is about as likely as a rose spontaneously growing in your cat litter box.


15 posted on 12/27/2009 10:34:48 AM PST by Spike Knotts
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To: Spike Knotts

Man...there is one heck of a mistake in there. I don’t want to point it out because I’d probably get banned. Lets just say that I really, really needed to add the word “up” to a sentence. Of course, what I accidentally described would be an incredible act of bravery in my own personal circumstances, since I’d have to break my own spine and ribs to do so.

Sorry about that...geez. Freudian slip or what.


16 posted on 12/27/2009 10:36:53 AM PST by Spike Knotts
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To: Spike Knotts

I’ve seen pictures...didn’t know it was you...never tried it myself...


17 posted on 12/27/2009 10:38:54 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: Spike Knotts

And Obama...he lay low. This sorry ass excuse for an American President makes my blood boil. OBAMA SUCKS!


18 posted on 12/27/2009 10:41:05 AM PST by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: Spike Knotts
You may very well be right. Islam and Democracy are fundamentally at odds with one another. We may get something that’s worse. However, by helping them, we may encourage something that is better. If left to being spontaneous, no one knows what may happen. If assisted by those that love freedom and can instill freedom into the hearts of the Opposition’s leaders, good things may come of it. Russia in 1917 could have been won by the Whites or the Reds. It could have went either way. Doing little or nothing, is not a solution.
23 posted on 12/27/2009 10:48:45 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Spike Knotts
Under most Administrations, the United States used to stand for freedom and liberty. Not under this Quisling. Iran, Honduras, bowing to Saudis and Chinese, giving Chavez a hug and a pinch on the bottom. This is the Thugocracy Administration.
25 posted on 12/27/2009 10:52:00 AM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Spike Knotts
This is an amazing video, and shows incredible bravery...but lets face it, blowing yourself is also an act of personal bravery, contemptible as the desired results may be.

Actually blowing ones self would be act of incredible gymnastics.

Blowing ones self UP on the other hand is not brave, it is the highest form of cowardice. They blow themselves up in order to get to heaven and reap their rewards. They are insane, not brave. In addition many suicide bombers are drugged or forced into the act and the trigger is controlled by someone safely out of the blast area.

44 posted on 12/27/2009 1:01:36 PM PST by calex59
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To: Spike Knotts
"George Washington is right now crossing the Rubicon in Iran..."

Er.....AHEM!

George Washington crossed the Delaware. Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon.

Washington to free the colonies from the British, Caesdar to pursue his dream of dictatorship.

48 posted on 12/27/2009 2:56:22 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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