One can loathe Ahmadinejad and also oppose a US invasion of Iran

[ruggerson]

The two positions are not mutually exclusive, despite the propoganda some would have us believe.

One can also loathe Ahmadinejad and at the same time despise Bush and his policies.

Again, the positions are not mutually exclusive.

Thinking liberals are capable of multi-tasking.

[Captain Hilts]

1. True! nt

[ruiner4u]

2. watch out there buddy...

some people just cant handle black, white, and shades of gray thinking...

[onenote]

3. right. Unfortunately, there appears to be a influx of non-thinking liberals at DU

If they really think that pointing out the poor human rights record of Ahmadinejad and Iran (including his preposterous statements about gays and women) is promoting war with Iran, maybe they should start a PR campaign -- y'know take out ads declaring what a saintly figure he is -- a regular Gandhi. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Jeez.

[ruggerson]

5. You would think that liberals would be concerned about mass murders of gay teenagers

Or a madman who denies the very existence of homosexuality in his country. Instead, we get posts like "Well, putting the 'homosexual thing' aside, I think the man makes a lot of sense."

Un. Fucking. Believable.

[MADem]

4. Count me in!!!!! I 'do' parsing!!! NT

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. Absolutely!!

I happen to spend a lot of time in the Middle East and almost everyone I know loathes Ahmadinejad even among the Shiites.

Absolutely everyone I have met in the Arab and Islamic Middle East opposes any military strike on Iran for very rational reasons.

And one can loathe Ahmadinejad but be suspicious of the real intentions behind all the recent hype. Saddam Hussein was a genuinely evil man way back in the 80's when then the U.S. government was supporting him and the American media was ignoring him.

And one can loathe Ahmadinejad but not loathe Chavez or every contrived "enemy". They are not the same you know.

And one can loathe Ahmadinejad but be aware that this political figure who is not the commander of Iranian Armed Forces and holds very limited power under the Iranian system is an extremely easy person to demonize in an obvious attempt to hype up a military attack on Iran and bring catastrophe on the region and a disaster for the American people.

There is such a thing as critical factually based thinking.

Thinking liberals are capable of multi-tasking.

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"I think of war with Iran as the ending of America's present role in the world. Iraq may have been a preview of that, but it's still redeemable if we get out fast. In a war with Iran, we'll get dragged down for 20 or 30 years. The world will condemn us. We will lose our position in the world."

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Vanity Fair, 2006.

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[Kelly Rupert]

7. Bingo. Glad to see the binary thinkers are in the minority. n/t