>>if all you get to hear is Bush & govt. spokescreatures you get the idea that all USans think Iran is a totalitarian anti-women anti-semitic dictatorship<<
" totalitarian anti-women anti-semitic dictatorship" Mmm.The Bushit coup seem to fall into this catergory,if only someone would invent a system where a relativly small group,practising security culture could simply remove a few support structures for these warlike regimes. "Surrounded by Moslem maniacs on one side and Christian maniacs on the other, the wise Lord Hassan [al-Sabbah] preserved his people and his cult by bringing the art of assassination to aesthetic perfection. With just a few daggers strategically placed in exactly the right throats, he found Wisdom's alternative to war, and preserved the peoples by killing their leaders. Truly, his was a most exemplary life of grandmotherly kindness."