[lit-ideas] Re: Aren't you glad you no longer have a Hitler problem?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:09:43 -0400
It's understandably easier to see the fault in the other guy than in one's
self, especially since the self invariably doesn't have any faults.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 6/24/2006 2:56:20 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Aren't you glad you no longer have a Hitler
problem?
>
> Simon: Hitler advocated a new reich. To achieve it he had to
> do two things. Reduce and eradicate the democratic process
> in Germany, whilst also persuading the German populous that
> they were under attack.
>
> Ring any bells?
> ________
>
> Yes, Simon, it sounds like Iran under the new hardliners. It
> also sounds like every Islamist politician of the last
> twenty years.
>
> Oh you were thinking of Bush with his --democratically
> measured -- low standing in the opinion polls?
>
> Cite some public opinion polls of Iranians with regard to
> their government. Go ahead. News reports come entirely from
> state-controlled sources. Any polls likewise.
>
> _____
> http://www.nopunditintended.com/2006/03/iranian_public_opinion.html
>
> It is completely self-delusional to think that Ahmadinejad
> speaks for anyone other than Ayatolla Khamenei and the
> Guardian Council.
>
> First, Ahmadinajad was not elected - he was appointed.
> Ahmadinajad only received 19% of the first vote - second
> place - with Rafsanjani receiving a full 2 points more in an
> election where the top 5 candidates went like this in the polls:
>
> Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 21%
> Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 19%
> Mehdi Karroubi 17%
> Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf 13%
> Mostafa Moeen 13%
>
> Now, when the runoffs happened between Rafsanjani and
> Ahmadinajad, it's a 40/60 split? That's right out of the
> beetles tune, "I get by with a little help from my friends."
>
>
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