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For years now, we’ve been hearing Democrats calling Republicans Nazis. Now we come to this story in which the Iranian government makes a move that the Nazis actually DID. Will we hear an outcry against Iran and Ahmadinejad by the Democrats, urging us to do something to stop them?
We’ll see, but I doubt it.

UPDATE 5/20/06 4.33PM: The story is now in doubt, although nobody seems to be quite sure what’s up with it. Naturally, those Democrats that I was referring to before are calling the whole thing “Neo-con propaganda”.

UPDATE 5/24/06 5.50PM: The newspaper has retracted the story. Seems that creating clothing badges is the ONLY thing un-Nazi about Iran — the threatening Israel, conspiracy theories about Jews, distaste for open discourse, bizarre religious beliefs, threatening and interfering in the politics of neighboring countries… the list goes on.

For years now, we’ve been hearing Democrats calling Republicans Nazis. Now we come to this story in which the Iranian government makes a move that the Nazis actually DID. Will we hear an outcry against Iran and Ahmadinejad by the Democrats, urging us to do something to stop them?
We’ll see, but I doubt it.

UPDATE 5/20/06 4.33PM: The story is now in doubt, although nobody seems to be quite sure what’s up with it. Naturally, those Democrats that I was referring to before are calling the whole thing “Neo-con propaganda”.

UPDATE 5/24/06 5.50PM: The newspaper has retracted the story. Seems that creating clothing badges is the ONLY thing un-Nazi about Iran — the threatening Israel, conspiracy theories about Jews, distaste for open discourse, bizarre religious beliefs, threatening and interfering in the politics of neighboring countries… the list goes on.

The Iranians are busy rattling the saber by testing their Shihab-3 missile. Coincidentally enough, this was immediately before Bush met with Olmert to discuss what to do about Iran. Luckily, according to some analysts, the missile has only been lightly tested. The recent test was not completely successful, either, so there’s some hope that any used during war would malfunction. Besides that, Israel has anti-missile missiles which should provide some defense. However, there are about 26 countries within range of the Shihab-3. A number of US interests are included in the range as well, particularly in Iraq and around the Persian Gulf.