rummy to infiltrate Iranian T.V. & media with "Tougher Message"

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15615004.htm

WASHINGTON - In another indication that some in the Bush administration are pushing for a more confrontational policy toward Iran, a Pentagon unit has drafted a report charging that U.S. international broadcasts into Iran aren't tough enough on the Islamic regime.


The report appears to be a gambit by some officials in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office and elsewhere to gain sway over television and radio broadcasts into Iran, one of the few direct tools the United States has to reach the Iranian people.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced in February a major initiative to promote democracy in Iran, including $50 million to increase Farsi-language television broadcasts.

Some conservatives, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, have called for ramped-up broadcasting aimed at overthrowing the clerics who run Iran.

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The Borg will absorb and assimilate you now, resistance is futile.

[aquart]

1. Oh, that'll work swell.

Is Rummy getting kickbacks from al qaeda? You know, a couple of bucks for every new recruit?

Anybody checking his offshore accounts?

[Hubert Flottz]

2. "former House Speaker Newt Gingrich"

Is the "former House Speaker" because he was too crooked and criminal to be the "House Speaker" anymore.

[Shipwack]

3. The two things that the opposition in Iran -never- want are...

For the U.S. to say that the current regime must go, or that the opposition party should be in charge. Whenever we say anything bad about the the clerics, their popularity goes up, and those pushing reforms lose influence as people rally around the status quo, not wanting to do what "the Great Satan" wants...

Off-topic... I notice that the bottom Google ad is for a company called "Crimescene Cleaners". I guess the mention of Gingrich threw off the meter... Or maybe not.... Hmmmmm.

[sam sarrha]

4. tough talking draft dodgers will make em pee their caftans

[sam sarrha]

5. these guys are just playground bullies that never grew up.. mentally ill

[RethugAssKicker]

6. Fucking DEVILS... Is that imperialistic or what ?