Iran thanks "nice people" in US, not Bush

[DuctapeFatwa]

A senior Iranian official on Thursday thanked "nice people" in the United States for sending humanitarian aid to the victims of last week's Bam earthquake, but said the gesture had not changed the Islamic regime's loathing of US President George W. Bush.

"You are talking about politics, but these are doctors. They are not Mr. Bush or Mr. Rumsfeld coming to kill us," Deputy Health Minister Mohammad Akbari said when asked to comment on the arrival of teams of US aid workers to Bam...

"This is not help from Mr. Bush. This is help from humanitarian people. There are alot of nice people in the US. I have studied there myself," he said.

"But the US government is a different thing. We can never trust Bush, because what they do against Iran and other people, he added.

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=21123&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs

[number6]

1. same way I feel about Bu$h...thanx for nothing

:smoke:

[Skittles]

2. very smart people

I hope they are still finding survivors

[Zech Marquis]

3. kick!

couldn't have said it better myself.

[slackmaster]

4. Very astute of them

Most of us (US citizens) ARE nice people. Very nice, generous, tolerant people.

[tritsofme]

5. Thats all great that he said that,

but it doesnt make the Iranian government any less dangerous in the long term.

[pinto]

7. maybe so, but a country w/30,000+ DOA /one day, needs some help...n/t

[Holly]

8. Perhaps

if Iran recognizes publicly that American's are not evil people, a Dem Administration in the White House may be in a position to make some real diplomatic progress in this region.

[tritsofme]

9. I agree with you there,

but I doubt if they make distinction between pub and Dem administrations. To them we're just the Great Satan.

If anything until a year or so ago, they probably preferred repub administrations since they used to be able to buy arms from them.

[pinto]

11. we are the Great Satan to the Islamic Right, many Iranians are moderate

politically and are a broad base of Iranian reform in their country. Don't count them out.

[tritsofme]

12. But they do not have power in government.

That is why I have hope for Iran though. I don't recall the figure exactly, but I read that something like 40% of Iran's population is under 20.

I think we will see some real changes in the country in the coming decades, but right now they do pose a threat, especially if they become a nuclear power.

This is the regime that * should have been pushing on, not Iraq.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

15. It's not their government...

It's the clergy. The official Iranian government would likely have normalized relations with the United States 4-5 years ago, but the old guard in the Islamic Courts won't allow it.

[malachi]

18. Dangerous to whom? How?

[Mountainman]

20. Just a few questions. Who fits the description of dangerous?

What country gives itself the right to preemption?
What country seeks to be the world's sole nuclear power?
What administration has launched a preemptive strike based on lies and now occupies a foreign country and lays claims to that country's natural recourses in an attempt to maintain its standard of living?
What country has killed thousands of innocent citizens, including women and children, of a foreign country in the last year?
What country has given itself the right to hold people in prisons for indefinite periods of time without charging them with a crime?
What country has passed two laws recently restricting the rights of its citizens and giving those in power dictatorship like powers?
What country's generals feel they are fighting a war that their God has sent them to fight.
What country has a general who says that its Constitution will be ignored if and when there is a WMD attack on its soil?
What country has opted out of the World Court?
What country has decided to abandon nuclear proliferation treaties?
What country is developing more modern and sophisticated nuclear weapons?
What country is more dangerous to others on the planet, the United States or Iran?

Has Iran done any of these things in the past 3 years?

Is it OK that we have done this things because we are a more peaceful, civilized God fearing nation?

[Holly]

6. good to see

that Iran is noting the difference..Bush* and his merry band of evil-doers is not representative of the American people. An important public declaration.

[Astarho]

19. Many Iranians

have no problems with the American people, but do hate the government. Americans I have found seem to have the biggest problem distinguishing between a people and their government.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Good for them.

Clearly they (unlike most right wingers) can see the difference.

[goforit]

13. WOW!!!

?

[UrbScotty]

14. There are so many nice people in America.

Mr. Akbari is right: Bush doesn't represent America.

On a side note: May God Bless the People of the Bam area in Iran.

[leesa]

16. But where are they? And why are they letting the Bush Crime Family

do these terrible things to our planet and its inhabitants?

[SwellGround]

17. Three cheers for the great satan

I just hope they remember our kindness when the tide is turned.

[crissy71]

21. If you don't count all the angry white males

neocons, racists, mysogynists, extremist warmongers, crypto-fascists, blonde Eva Braun-Ann Coulteristas, sheeple...We're not so bad

[bobthedrummer]

22. "People are people so why should it be,

you and I should get along so awfully?".

Or something like that.