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  1. Tryglaw

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Wasn't that actually the Kuwaiti ambassador? With the girl being born and having lived her whole life in US, never having set foot in her "homeland" ?
  2. Tryglaw

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    IIRC it was under false pretense too - the whole "incubator babies" thing was a hoax.
  3. Tryglaw

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    As many "democratically appointed" presidents for life found out much to their chagrin...
  4. Tryglaw

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    It's quite telling when you consider that Saudi Arabia is even worse... But they also do as Uncle Sam says, so get a pass on their crap.
  5. Tryglaw

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    Emphasis on tech means cashflow towards political backers, kickbacks, favors owned, the works... Political corruption at it's "finest". And of course there were good reasons why the abbreviation was explained as "Cocaine Imports Agency".
  6. Tryglaw

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    “The aims of all governments, whatever their names or forms, are precisely the same, at all times and everywhere. The first and foremost of them is simply to maintain the men constituting the government in their positions of power, that they may live gloriously at the expense of the people they...
  7. Tryglaw

    Middle East Running Iranian threat news and discussion thread

    In addition, the idea of "freedom of press" should be cleared up on the issue "freedom from what / to do what". Certainly, press / media need to be free from censorship (even if that is less and less the case these days, instead of censorship imposed from without, we have censorship imposed from...
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