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Why can't Iran have nukes?

by HappySysiphus, Unknown News August 2, 2008
Anyone who thinks nuclear weapons aren't already in the worst hands imaginable right here in America has never been to Houston, Texas.

It is patently racist to say that white Christian global expansionists can have nukes, but Brown Islamic global expansionists can't. Especially when the price for not having nukes is that your country is subject to a drop-by US Marine "Liberation" at any time.

Iran is a sophisticated modern country with a lot of really smart people and a very rich culture.

They would probably use nukes the same way every-
one except Truman has used them: Not at all.

"But they are enemies of the United States!" Yeah, and so was Joe Stalin, who didn't ever drop the bomb or smuggle one in to a port or so much as spit on us with a pea shooter.

Why, because the scariest monster in the room is: us!

The Ayatollah and his Islamic state were classic blowback resulting from our installation of the Shah, a cruel right-wing dictator in the employ of a certain classified agency we all know and love.

Incidentally, my dad was a counselor at an upstate

It is patently racist to say that white Christian global expansionists can have nukes, but Brown Islamic global expansionists can't.

Especially when the price for not having nukes is that your country is subject to a drop-by US Marine "Liberation" at any time.

New York summer camp where the Shah's son was a camper. The young prince taught my sister how to tie her shoes, no shit. My mom, who is the quintessential West-Texas Fascist, got to meet the Shah and his wife.

"They were such nice people..." she would always say of them whenever something came on the television about how he was a brutal, unpopular dictator that was Charlie McCarthy for the U.S. Government.

Real Persians on the street just want cell-phones and Mercedes now. Denying them nuclear technology just because they stand up to the United States a little bit is incredibly immature, bully behavior on the part of our chest-beating, bully, so-called foreign policy apparatus.

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