In a message dated 11/20/2004 3:49:09 PM Central Standard Time, andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: Whether it will be a massive airstrike, or whether there will be battalions of US Marines rolling across Iran, remains to be seen. Hi, All of you are just so negative. First of all, don't you know that Iran is wicked and horrible and desperately needs a regime change? I am sure that the people will be cheering in the streets just like they have done and are doing still in Iraq. (I was forwarded an article from a member of my charming family who had in his work [he works for a nuclear power plant as an engineering manager of sorts] received his company newsletter and in it was an article from one of the other engineers who just returned from Iraq. They are all being told that 'the media' is wrong and that the people in Iraq were thrilled t o have them there...he was honored to be at Bremer's and the Iraqi people's signing of the Iraqi interim constitution and they repaired the zoo and did so much more. The pictures were so sweet and dear--showed some of the pitiful schools, etc.) I'm sure that if Iran is doing mean and bad stuff that they need to be 'fixed' just like Iraq has been. Which, you know, is on its way to a democracy. (even if it has to be forced there...but that is of no consequence. *We* know best, after all.) I don't know where you get your information, but it is completely different from what *I* get. <sigh> Someone is not living in reality... Wondering why the French and Germans didn't stay in the US after they helped us win over England in *our* revolution, Marlena, back in Missouri PS Quote of the day: 'Canada is like a great Seattle' -- B B to his first cousin twice removed (who he met for the first time and me for the second...) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html