You wrote this in another topic on the front page:

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We just read The Diary of Anne Frank at school, and we have to write a letter to Iran's president and try to convince him that the Holocaust did exist and that he shouldn't try to get rid of Israel.

Let me help you out here.

Your teacher is mistaken. Iranian President Ahmadinejad never said what the media attributed to him. The media said that he said "Israel should be wiped off the face of the map." In fact, this was a grave mistranslation. No such idiom as "wiped off the face of the map" exists in Persian. The real quote was:

"The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad)"

Source: of_phrase_.22wiped_off_the_map.22...

Please do not feed into the propaganda being spewed on TV by the mainstream media, who seem to be acting as unpaid employees for the Department of Defense.

And please show the link to your teacher so he/she may correct her mistake.

Also, President Ahmendinejad is NOT the leader of Iran. He is only a figurehead. The leader of Iran is Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Hey sweet deal.  That makes more sense.  Good resource too.  And I thought I went to Iraq for nothing.

If you're in the US Army, your opinion on the war doesn't count, because you guys aren't allowed to say anything negative about it, or you get court martialled.

I saw something about that after we had to write the letter.  I'll show it to her.

Why are all the words in italics?

It's just this forum's thing I suppose.

Too bad for you I'm already out.  So my opinion does count.  And by the way, you can't get court martialled for that.  If it has something to do with insulting the president or any part of OUR government the most they'll do is give you an Article 15.  If you threaten then you get court martialled and prison time.  But yeah that's one thing I hated about the Military.  You basically have no rights so if you say your opinion, freedom of speech doesn't matter.  Glad I'm out and living my life now.

I read about a soldier with an anti-war blog who got in trouble for it.

Maybe you aren't such a bad guy after all. I'll refrain from flaming you for now.

I_love_HP wrote:

Why are all the words in italics?

The original post had an unclosed < i> tag. I fixed it.

Hey! You didn't fix my italics!

Jerk.

It was only in your post and you made a joke. :P

My bad.

Thatoneguy wrote:

Hey sweet deal.  That makes more sense.  Good resource too.  And I thought I went to Iraq for nothing.

The British have a slightly larger history of war than the Americans do, Gasher.

Brickwall wrote:

God created war to teach the Americans geography.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

That really made me LOL.

For those too slow to get it, I will explain:

Nobody in America knew about Afghanistan or most of those Middle Eastern countries until we attacked them.

That's true - not one single person knew ANYTHING about anywhere middle eastern. There weren't conflicts in Kuwait/Iraq in the late 80s.

Where's the Middle East? Is that, like, Ohio or something?

The average American idiot didn't know about Afghanistan or Pakistan or Palestine until 9/11.

Epershandrea wrote:

Where's the Middle East? Is that, like, Ohio or something?

Nah, you're thinking west. It's somewhere in Maine if I've heard correctly.

Angry_Jerk wrote:

The average American idiot didn't know about Afghanistan or Pakistan or Palestine until 9/11.

Bush still doesn't know about them.  He just calls them all "the terrorists." 

Ohio is exactly like Afghanistan, except they don't count the ballots received by mail in Ohio. At least, in Afghanistan, the Talibans were keeping law and order and every one had to dress and look like this cool, breezy Mullah Omar. 

Angry_Jerk wrote:

Brickwall wrote:

God created war to teach the Americans geography.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA That really made me LOL.

Qevosk wrote:

The British have a slightly larger history of war than the Americans do, Gasher.

Yeah, actually, it was =).

Your mom said it.

Who's mom? Mine? Because if it was mine, she didn't say it but I'm sure she'd agree.

She actually did say it.  Brickwall said it, and Brickwall is your mom.

No kidding.

I_love_HP wrote:

Brickwall is your mom.