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There's definitely violence against the protesters there. The awfulizing and amplification of the issues in Iran are specifically to bolster this administration's desire to make war there.

Fascism need not always lie but instead selectively reveal pieces of reality and fudge the lines of credulity. There are ways to support Democratic revolutions that don't involve sending our military in.

The people of Iraq were also very grateful to see Saddam Hussein go but that doesn't mean that they wanted to lose hundreds of thousands of people to starvation and wanton destruction to satisfy our foreign policy goals.