Think of this as an online “Quotes From The Quad” where we ask an open-ended question to see what students think of current events, things going on around campus, etc. It’s a new feature we’re trying out.
Gaby Arevalo -
June 17, 2009, 8:35 pm
Smells like more western meddling re. $400 million allocated to overthrow the Iranian government ~2 years ago. Beware the bias of WESTERN (corporate) media!!! Iran has something they want…
Joe -
June 22, 2009, 3:49 pm
Right. Beware the big scary Western corporate/government blah, blah, blah…
Because they *forced* those Iranian students to throw themselves on Basij bullets, knives and clubs, right? Idiot.
We’re just looking to take all their oil like we did in Iraq, right? But… wait… That’s right! We didn’t take anything from Iraq, did we?
Sean -
July 20, 2009, 11:06 am
Bud, you havn’t a clue how geopolitics works and the history behind it. I don’t know why you take it personal because the corporations I refer to are not free market maintained and operated and they have used (since they litterally own United States Inc.(aka federal governmenent) as their tool. It would behoove you to do your homework on Anglo-American/Iranian relations, Anglo-American/Middle Eastern relations, and your own Anglo-American history. And don’t tell me those men were sent over there to maintain your natural born rights because, quite frankly, you don’t have any, never did. If you won’t hear it from me then read USMC General Smedley Butler’s ‘War is a Racket’ essays. United States does not work for you!
Joe -
July 31, 2009, 8:38 am
Also, what do you mean no oil was/is be taken from Iraq. Saddam was a puppet to United States who was getting too independent and not behaving like a good little boy. He had to go as he finally went off the oil/dollar trade and went to Euros which would have destroyed Bretton Woods and people would have seen the fraud perpetuated upon them by United States and Federal Reserve. Iraq is being opened back up and agreements made to update and drill oil in Iraqi oil fields. Read the history between AIOC (now BP) and the Iranians and tell me you wouldn’t depsise the theives.
These are not free market corporations maintained by market forces. They are subsidized monopolies through the corporate by-laws and statutes of another private corporation, United States. That means conquest as well!
Joe -
July 31, 2009, 8:50 am
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being elected is pretty much a shame; the man is crazy. On the other hand it’s impossible to really do anything about it. The United States would have a pretty hard time giving Iran problems involving the election and at the same time promote fair democratic governmental elections. Indeed, the US has faced that flack before, particularly in foreign interest.
