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Don't believe all of the simple stereotypes and propaganda being fed to you.
Iran has a very rich and diverse culture.
Remember, Saddam Hussein was supposed to have been an evil tyrant, in possession of weapons of mass destruction, and ready to use them - and his people were reportedly anxious to be rid of him, and they would welcome the US and embrace peace and democracy if only he was overthrown, that is if the people that led us into this mess were to be believed. Most people by now realize that we were led into war by a series of half-truths and outright fabrications.
The result of believing such propaganda is that we are mired down in a costly guerilla war - costly both in terms of human lives and money.
The corporate corruption and greed that our tax dollars are funding in the Middle East is atrocious, and it is not winning us many friends in the Middle East and elsewhere.
And then there are the mercenary forces with a specific quasi-political/religious agenda that we are financing as well, which may come back to bite us in the ass in ways far worse than they have thus far.
Spreading war more widely throughout the Middle East is not in our best political and economic interest.
A plan should be made to begin pulling our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and for the US to develop policies which are based upon the future of the planet, and not upon greed and lust for oil, and world domination through the barrel of a gun.
ADG
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