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December 02, 2005
They Damned Well Better Had
...as far as America's concerned. Of course, as Bingley pointed out, Europe would prefer to write a stern letter.
Five months after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election as president of Iran, some leading figures in Tehran's "mullahcracy" who backed him as a candidate are desperately trying to rein him in.
Sucks when your machinations bite you in the ayatollah a$$ahollah, doesn't it?
Posted by tree hugging sister at December 2, 2005 02:34 PM
Comments
interesting article. i really really thought 10 countries joined the eu, not 8.
Posted by: jeremy at December 2, 2005 03:54 PM
He [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] is affiliated with the Hojjatieh movement, which is preparing for the return of the 12th imam, who disappeared down a well in the ninth century.
The Iranian theocracy should have remembered that old saying, "Be careful of what you wish for, you might get it."
Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at December 2, 2005 04:02 PM
A warm Swill welcome, jeremy! (Periscope is one of Newsweek's better features.) And you appear to be entirely correct, according to this and this:
The EU took in 10 new members - Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus, Malta, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia - on 1 May, 2004.
(Not quite sure where others get "8", but there are a few. Peculiar.)
Posted by: tree hugging sister at December 2, 2005 04:16 PM
Well, I see Poland listed twice, and maybe they don't count Cyprus as a country.
Posted by: John at December 2, 2005 04:44 PM
Oh! No duh, huh? I'll need to investigate foithuh.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at December 2, 2005 04:58 PM
Okay, I get...
"Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Cyprus and Malta" with "Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania fared better according to the Commission.
Along with Slovenia..."
...makes ten.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at December 2, 2005 05:03 PM
there's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium
and nitrogen and oxygen and hydrogen and helium...
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at December 2, 2005 10:04 PM
The more countries that join the EU, the more unwieldy it becomes...which is good, because that generally means it does less.
Posted by: Dave J at December 2, 2005 10:55 PM
So I guess now we sit back, make some popcorn see what the ayatollahs do about the problem they created.
Posted by: Cindermutha at December 3, 2005 08:03 PM
Karma, CM, is a bitch.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at December 4, 2005 03:08 PM