The Shah vs. Ibrahim al-Jaafari

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I would definately vote for the Shah.

[phk]

Reluctantly Shah.

[Erc]

BRTD...um...why?

What's Jaafari done to piss you off all of a sudden?  Call for conciliation among the ethnic and religious groups of Iraq?

For whatever Jaafari's faults, he is nowhere near to being the cruel hideous dictator that you think the Shah was.

Or did Jaafari just ban strip clubs?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Shah was fine for the most part. I don't like SAVAK or him overthrowing the leftist Prime Minister or his actions against communists and leftists, but at least he tried to greatly secularize his country and was one of the most progressive leaders ever in the Middle East. Plus his daugher was hot.

Meanwhile al-Jaafari is just a Shiite creep from a Shiite party with connections to an Iranian-born theocratic cleric who will probably take Iraq down the path of theocracy.

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I have to disagree with BRTD here.

[Erc]

The Shah was fine for the most part. I don't like SAVAK or him overthrowing the leftist Prime Minister or his actions against communists and leftists, but at least he tried to greatly secularize his country and was one of the most progressive leaders ever in the Middle East. Plus his daugher was hot.

Meanwhile al-Jaafari is just a Shiite creep from a Shiite party with connections to an Iranian-born theocratic cleric who will probably take Iraq down the path of theocracy.

Ah.  Nobody cares about atrocities or secret police or anything...it's just that one guy is slightly less religious than the other guy.  This is something I'd expect out of opebo, not out of you.

Say what you will about Sistani...but the Shah did much more to bring Iran to theocracy (of course, that wasn't the outcome he wanted) than Jaafari ever will.

[minionofmidas]

The Shah was a monster out of your nightmares, dude.