And should I mention the various calls by various prominent people in the US calling for the murder of Chavez, or to fight the "axis of evil"?

Face it, the USA have not gotten over the humiliation of the 1979 hostage crisis and still want revenge on Iran, and have consistently behaved in an aggressive way toward Iran (remember how the attack by Iraq was encouraged and supported?).

Iran's words are often ugly (but not shared by all - see this recent diary by ghandi), but US acts toward Iran have been a lot more aggressive.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

You seem to have drawn an entirely different conclusion from Gnomem00t 0 than I.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}