This is just the tip of the iceberg in idiocy. Its sectarian pro-Shiite policies in Iraq facilitated the American invasion and paved the grounds for the present civil war. What Bob G said yesterday i.e. the US is not winning is another smoke screen similar to that of Iraqi WMD. When hundreds of Iraqis die every day in sectarian fighting, the US wins on account of increasing global instability in the oil region, which is essential for its capital accumulation. Destroying Iraq is a clear victory for the US. And now just look at the results of Hizbollah's demonstartions in lebanon and the associated spill over from the Iraqi sectarian war. Already two Shiites have died in beirut. where will the short sighted sectarian based iranian policy leads, to a sunnite shiite split across the muslim world. Persian mullahs in power are a doosy.
----- Original Message ---- From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 11:35:33 PM Subject: More idiocy from Iran (The Iranian government wants to bring together people like Deborah Lipstadt representing the side that 6 million Jews got killed by Hitler and "the other side". What a joke. You might as well organize a conference with "both sides" on whether Black people are genetically inferior, or whether the Earth is flat or round.) NY Times, December 5, 2006 Iran to Host Scholarly Seminar on Holocaust By NAZILA FATHI TEHRAN, Dec. 5 — Iran will hold a two-day conference on the Holocaust next week in which more than 60 scholars from some 30 countries will participate, the Foreign Ministry said today. The seminar is in response to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments last year, when he said the scale of the genocide of the Jews had been exaggerated, the deputy foreign minister, Manouchehr Mohammadi, told a news conference today. Mr. Ahmadinejad first stirred outrage in the West in December last year, when he called the Holocaust a myth. He has repeatedly said that the Holocaust has been used as a tool of propaganda, and banned scholars here from research on the subject. The president also sent a 3,000-word letter to Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel outlining his arguments. Mr. Mohammadi said next week’s conference will “provide the opportunity for scholars from both sides to give their papers in freedom and without pre-conceived ideas.” He refused to give the names of the 67 international scholars he said were attending the seminar, out of concern that their countries would prohibit them from coming. full: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/world/middleeast/06irancnd.html -- www.marxmail.org ____________________________________________________________________________________ Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now.
