and yes, the article is RUBBISH, complete GARBAGE, it makes a few small sentences here and there with the quotes you just put, but its overall tone is to give the feeling that some revolution COULD take place, and everything is in the headlines, you say ignore the headlines, why? the headline is all in it. these journalists know what they are doing with the way they title the article, and with the over-all tone of the article.
First in journalism, the reporter writes the story, some editor adds the headline, not the reporter. So, yes, ignore the headline when you are critiquing an artilce.
Second to say now that it makes a few small sentences here and there but that your problem is with the overall tone, means that the word "complete" is used incorrectly in describing the article. Complete means everything. You might still think it is overall garbage, but it isn't complete garbage.
are you playing silly, or did you actually fail to understand my simple statement. let me repeat myself, i know bush isnt in power, but during his days in power, people protested against him, it didnt mean they were against the foundation and the system as a whole, just against him. just like now, the protests in iran are against ahmedinijad, not the actual system etc. that was the point, how you couldnt see that i dont know.
Third, you are not repeating yourself when you say that you know Bush isn't in power. To be repeating yourself, you would had to have already said that, but you hadn't till now.
Fourth. Yes, I understood your illustration. My "Hello. Bush isn't president. He's out of office..." comment wasn't directed at you, but at Tarverdi Chegine who I quoted just before making that comment. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that point.
Fifth. If you understood my posts you would see that indeed I (and most of the rest of the western media) get that the protests in Iran are against ahmedinijad, not the actual system. Notice I said plainly:
The reality is that the west does know this is not an attempt to replace an Islamic regime by some scular western style government.
I also quoted a number of western media outlets all giving evidence of that awareness. Why do you keep projecting on to us that we don't get that.
Sixth. I still think you are hyperventilating. I think that because you don't get that we do understand that the protests are about Ahmedinijad and not the system. I think that because you have missed that point though apparently you've read at least two of my previous posts that showed that we got that. I think that because you asserted to another person that yes yo do think that everything that is published in the Western media is rubbish. And whenever someone makes such universal declarations to paint everyone with the same brush, I suspect that they are either so bigotted and foollish that they wouldn't know the truth if it was staring them in the face or they are so caught up in the moment that they are hyperventilating and momentarily can't think straight. I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt that you are neither a bigot nor a fool, and that the only reason you are using terms like "all", "everyone", and "complete" is because you are so caught up in the emotions of what is going on in your home country that you momentarily aren't thinking straight.
I truly hope that things do work out for you and all Iranians. That your country can resolve its internal differences with one another peacably. And that you will learn to see that there is no monolithic opinion with regard to how people in the west view Iran or any other issue in the world.
But just a final note so that you can see that we get the point that you don't think we get. President Obama was quoted in nearly all the media outlets today saying: "It's important to understand that although there is amazing ferment taking place in Iran, that the difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi in terms of their actual policies may not be as great as has been advertised.” Those who had been paying attention to more than headlines knew that before the president said so.
They're chanting "Allahoo ackbar!" from the rooftops. I'm well aware this isn't about secularism vs. Islam.
