. It sounds painful.

What a fars

I'm amused, actually.

I want to take credit for coining the phrase "Peaceaphobic" for the muzies.

Would that be before or after Iran's agents of change and hope for the mad mullahs in Tehran get their clutches on the situation in Afghanistan?

They're already trying to get their way in Iraq, but have been thwarted by US and Iraqi efforts.

there are cures for all these middle eastern phobias.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan police clashed with Iranian forces at the southwestern border between the two countries, leaving one civilian dead and two Iranian officers wounded, officials said Sunday.

The incident in the village of Pul-e-Abreshum in Nimroz province happened Saturday after an Iranian patrol entered Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Afghan police dispatched a unit to the village and a gunbattle ensued. A teacher from the village was killed during the firefight, said provincial police chief Gen. Ayub Badakhshi.

Two Iranian officers were wounded, the statement said.

The long and porous border between the two countries is used by smugglers to traffic drugs into Iran. Many Afghans also cross illegally into Iran from the area. Border clashes are common.

SNIP

American officials follow the policy of Iranophobia

Once again- proof that the islamonuts don't understand the term "phobia". It's not irrational, nor is it a fear- we quite rightly, and rationally know that Iran is up to no good and we're not afraid to say so and follow a policy based on such.

The real phobists here are the islamists, who suffer from Infidelaphobia.

Democrats apparently have a similar ailment - it's called Iraqnophobia.

re: #2 Shug

What a fars

Did you mean to say
"What a farsi"?

re: #5 lawhawk

By a mere 11 seconds.

re: #6 nyc redneck

there are cures for all these middle eastern phobias.

I can think of one.

I've got Obamaphobia, Hillaryaphobia, Hamasophobia, Alquaedaphobia, Jimmyaphobia . . . The fear is endless.

re: #10 solomonpanting

no

I feel a bout of Reutersphobia coming on.

re: #13 ronAA

I've got Obamaphobia, Hillaryaphobia, Hamasophobia, Alquaedaphobia, Jimmyaphobia . . . The fear is endless.

I have Phobiaphobia.

I am sure we can come up with some more...

WhatIfWeWinInIraqophobia
AnotherBushTermophobia
YouAreProfilingophobia

Use your imagination!

re: #12 VegasRick

I can think of one.

like decisive action by the united states military!

You are right ron - living in the modern world phobia - female flesh showing phobia - Israel phobia - western society phobia - being nice phobia - politeness phobia - on and on LOL even if not so creative on my part

re: #18 nyc redneck

like decisive action by the united states military!

Bingo!

I have been diagnosed with 'dempresidentphobia" . However , it is treatable by electing GOP'ers as president

re: #19 Teacake!

You are right ron - living in the modern world phobia - female flesh showing phobia - Israel phobia - western society phobia - being nice phobia - politeness phobia - on and on LOL even if not so creative on my part

I have democratpresidentphobia.

Swarthy, miniature, disheveled radicals who think Israel should be eliminated and want us not to worry about their peaceful nuclear ambitions--for some reason I can't figure out--trigger my BS Detector. I know it works. I just played a video of Mrs. Clinton at the bar and it immediately hit the red zone.

This little turd al hossni has delusions of grandeur.

not unlike the small dog who thinks the car he is chasing is aftaid of him

re: #21 chicagodudewhotrades

I have been diagnosed with 'dempresidentphobia" . However , it is treatable by electing GOP'ers as president

Damn! I guess I should have left ocrat out of my phobia.

re: #17 thoughtcrime

I am sure we can come up with some more...

WhatIfWeWinInIraqophobia
AnotherBushTermophobia
YouAreProfilingophobia

Use your imagination!

I have a problem with guys who have soapophobia.

Rice said last week she would press Iraq’s Arab neighbours at a meeting on Tuesday in Kuwait to do more to support Baghdad’s government and shield it from Iran’s “nefarious influences”.

What a maroon. Just 8 months ago, She wanted to sit down and work out a stabilization program with Iran and Syria.

This meeting is only taking place because the US (that is Bush-Rice) want it to happen.

And Iran is invited. Again. After annoucing last week that su[percentrigues are now turning, and making Sadr threaten war on Maliki.

Go figure.

Incompetence, thy name is Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

/McCain, don't you even think of pandering to the guilty white vote with Rice as your VP choice.

re: #25 VegasRick

LOL!

Aw come on, ShortShi'ite! We're not afraid of you. We just don't like you.

“Regarding Rice’s statements, these statements are not something new. American officials follow the policy of Iranophobia,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters in a weekly news conference.

How ironic! Given the countless statements from Islamist officials and good ol' generic moonbat commentators that all of the ME regional woes are the fault of Israel, shouldn't charges of Israelophia be leveled at these cretins whenever they spew their insanity?

re: #28 chicagodudewhotrades

LOL!

I think I just developed a ocratphobia.

re: #2 Shug

What a fars

! ! ! Hilarious!

islamists suffer from:

Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions
Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women
Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed
Centophobia - Fear of new things or ideas
Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety
Coitophobia - Fear of coitus
Cynophobia - Fear of dogs
Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom
Epistemphobia - Fear of knowledge
Eurotophobia - Fear of female genitalia
Geliophobia - Fear of laughter
Gynephobia - Fear of women
Hereiophobia - Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation
Judeophobia - Fear of Jews
Methyphobia - Fear of alcohol
Monophobia - Fear of menstruation
Nudophobia - Fear of nudity
Oenophobia - Fear of wines
Papaphobia - Fear of the Pope

And of course:

Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.

re: #7 MandyManners

Two Iranian officers? Then the article goes on about smuggling?

Do they think we're just going to glide happily by that?

As long as we're on the subject of phobias, I ran across one that should be perfect for most liberals. Athazagoraphobia: the fear of being ignored.

re: #33 Sharmuta

noseethingophobia?

How many times do I have to say it. Its not a phobia if the fear is rational.

If you were disinclined to put your hand near the mouth of a snarling pit bull, that would not mean you had a "phobia" about it.

re: #27 Maine's Michael

What a maroon. Just 8 months ago, She wanted to sit down and work out a stabilization program with Iran and Syria.

This meeting is only taking place because the US (that is Bush-Rice) want it to happen.

And Iran is invited. Again. After annoucing last week that su[percentrigues are now turning, and making Sadr threaten war on Maliki.

Go figure.

Incompetence, thy name is Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

/McCain, don't you even think of pandering to the guilty white vote with Rice as your VP choice.

Yup. The Rice/Bush policy regarding Iranian nuclear weapons has been a smashing success, hasn't it?

First we allowed the EU to negotiate with Iran on our behalf.

Then we allowed Russia to negotiate with Iran on our behalf.

Then we allowed the UN negotiate with Iran on our behalf.

Now we're back to the EU option.

It's been a great ride George and Condi.

By the way, you're both full of crap....

re: #33 Sharmuta

allthegoatsaredeadphobia?

Hmmmm...seems to me that Iran suffers from USophobia and Israelophobia along with the general infidelophobia.

re: #29 littleoldlady

Aw come on, ShortShi'ite! We're not afraid of you. We just don't like you.

Just everybody, including the MSM, thinks "phobia" refers to fear of something. In fact, it originally meant loathing of or revulsion at something. Only later were the "fear" types of phobias added to the definition.

I'm presently suffering from Iranophobia-of-USAophobia-of-Iranophobia.

Well I have heard it said that light is the greatest disinfectant, Iran is clearly infected with a lethal virus. A bright and shining light needs to be shined on Iran, a very very bright shining light...

Well, I agree with that. Iranophobia is a legitimate phobia. LOL

I guess all those soldiers have been getting killed by Iranaphobic IED's.

I have a serious case of don't-wanna-get-nuked-by-a-delusional-Islamic-regi me-o-phobia.

re: #41 zombie

Oh. Well, okay then. I sit corrected.

;-)

So far, more than a thousand US soldiers have died by Iranian made/funded IEDs. I think it is legitimate to be fearful of the Mullahs but it is important to give them a lesson

re: #6 nyc redneck

there are cures for all these middle eastern phobias.

Dr. TrollBot's advice is to take two nukes and call me in the morning. (But NOT at 3:00 am!)

re: #49 TrollBot PrtoType Six

lol

re: #34 Dianna

Two Iranian officers? Then the article goes on about smuggling?

Do they think we're just going to glide happily by that?

I reckon Amir Shah expects us to do that.

re: #51 MandyManners

They're out of luck, then.

Watch how fast the term spreads in use and by whom.

It will be an interesting exercise.

re: #33 Sharmuta

islamists suffer from:

Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions
Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women
Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed
Centophobia - Fear of new things or ideas
Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety
Coitophobia - Fear of coitus
Cynophobia - Fear of dogs
Eleutherophobia - Fear of freedom
Epistemphobia - Fear of knowledge
Eurotophobia - Fear of female genitalia
Geliophobia - Fear of laughter
Gynephobia - Fear of women
Hereiophobia - Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation
Judeophobia - Fear of Jews
Methyphobia - Fear of alcohol
Monophobia - Fear of menstruation
Nudophobia - Fear of nudity
Oenophobia - Fear of wines
Papaphobia - Fear of the Pope

And of course:

Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.

wow, all that stuff brings back my first spring break in Cancun.

except for the fear of diarrhea and vomit
and sun tan oil

re: #41 zombie

Just everybody, including the MSM, thinks "phobia" refers to fear of something. In fact, it originally meant loathing of or revulsion at something. Only later were the "fear" types of phobias added to the definition.

Nice one!
So, according to its original sense, I confess to having a loathing of Islam and Iran, thus suffering from Islamophobia and Iranophobia - in the original sense only, mind!

There is no homophobia in Iran.

re: #56 Ben Hur

hehehe, cuz they have no gays. They killed them all ;-)

Braves-Dodgers on TBS now.

I've taken to wearing 50,000 spf sunblock at all hour's of the day and night, so yes, maybe I have Iranophobia.

re: #52 Dianna

They're out of luck, then.

Why even write the article?

Let me check for symptoms. Hmmm. Normal IQ, firm grasp of reality. nonsuicidal, nondelusional, likes to avoid radiation, dislikes crazy people, dislikes theocracies. likes good looking women in bikinis, prefers women who are educated. Yep. I got it.

re: #9 lawhawk

Democrats apparently have a similar ailment - it's called Iraqnophobia.

Iraqnophobia is only a small subset of what ails the Democrats.
Their biggest problem is WhatIsRightaphobia.

re: #56 Ben Hur

There is no homophobia in Iran.

'Cause there are no homosexuals in Iran.

re: #56 Ben Hur

There is no homophobia in Iran.

No, no- homophobia is rampant, there's just no homosexuals.

. An aversion to government based on the Koran: Caliphobia.

are we waiting for the iranians to get just on the brink of having nukes and then we blast them into the arms of allah? in the interest of humanity. and w/ righteous concern. the libs be damned.
or are we going to let them do something horrible. the time is coming to make decision. or it will be made for us.

ooops, maybe that's just my iranophobia acting up.

Looking around the net on the subject of 'islamophobia' I ran across a site named 'Islamophobia Watch' whose slogan is 'Documenting the War Against Islam.' It's an interesting compilation of nothing-to-see-here, we're just victims tactics, filed in 40 different categories.
[Link: www.islamophobia-watch.com...]

Ironically- the longest listed phobia I found was fear of long words-
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

The other ironic phobia: Phobophobia - Fear of phobias.

So, Richard Quest, eh 0_o

re: #68 Sharmuta

Wasn't there a thread about this yesterday?
bromidrosiphobia: Fear of body odor.

re: #15 JammieWearingFool

I feel a bout of Reutersphobia coming on.

It's an ObamaNation.

re: #33 Sharmuta

They also suffer from fear of eating at Howard Johnsons...HoJophobia
And the fear of strip clubs...gogophobia.

re: #60 MandyManners

I have no idea. Possibly because there are 2 wounded Iranian officers to explain?

re: #54 Shug

wow, all that stuff brings back my first spring break in Cancun.

except for the fear of diarrhea and vomit
and sun tan oil

The best thing about Cancun (among other things) was the absence of mosquitoes and other noticeable flying insects. Apparently, the iguana population keeps those little buggers under control.

re: #73 Dianna

I have no idea. Possibly because there are 2 wounded Iranian officers to explain?

Explain to whom?

re: #66 nyc redneck

are we waiting for the iranians to get just on the brink of having nukes and then we blast them into the arms of allah? in the interest of humanity. and w/ righteous concern. the libs be damned.
or are we going to let them do something horrible. the time is coming to make decision. or it will be made for us.

ooops, maybe that's just my iranophobia acting up.

Perhaps we are going to elect another naive, anti-semitic president like Jimmy Carter who can handle Iran with similar wisdom and efficiency. GAG

(I'm not naming any names because I have flipdabirdophobia.)

I'm sick of all this AmeriPhobia!

Ironic, isn't it, that a "culture" horrified at the idea of free women, a religion with an infinite chip on it's proverbial shoulder, a civilization (yes, I'm being generous) that simply cannot tolerate any criticism whatsoever without erupting in blind fury would dare accuse others of a phobia? To my view, Islam is a panoply of mental disease, a distillation of the very worst traits of human behaviour, the codification of a civilization based not on love but upon hate and brutality (in many ways similar to that of Big Brother in Orwell's 1984).

The failure of Islam is painfully obvious. Simply look to the vast intellectual stagnation and societal retardation that consumes any where that Islam gains a foothold. No art. No music. No literature. For a thousand years, nothing of value has come from Islam. Only regression, force, and barbarity. And if they have their way in conquering the West, mankind will be permanently reduced from a species reaching for the stars to one left starving and scratching in the dirt.

Someone kindly tell these throwbacks with their stained beards, piddled-upon shoes and grubby hands to piss off with their guilt-trip labels. We've seen what they have to offer, and those of us unafraid to call out the truth of the matter will have none of it. Damned retrograde barbarians.

Is there a pop-psych name for "Distrust of Embassy Hostage-Takers?"

re: #78 bystander

Ironic, isn't it, that a "culture" horrified at the idea of free women, a religion with an infinite chip on it's proverbial shoulder, a civilization (yes, I'm being generous) that simply cannot tolerate any criticism whatsoever without erupting in blind fury would dare accuse others of a phobia? To my view, Islam is a panoply of mental disease, a distillation of the very worst traits of human behaviour, the codification of a civilization based not on love but upon hate and brutality (in many ways similar to that of Big Brother in Orwell's 1984).

The failure of Islam is painfully obvious. Simply look to the vast intellectual stagnation and societal retardation that consumes any where that Islam gains a foothold. No art. No music. No literature. For a thousand years, nothing of value has come from Islam. Only regression, force, and barbarity. And if they have their way in conquering the West, mankind will be permanently reduced from a species reaching for the stars to one left starving and scratching in the dirt.

Someone kindly tell these throwbacks with their stained beards, piddled-upon shoes and grubby hands to piss off with their guilt-trip labels. We've seen what they have to offer, and those of us unafraid to call out the truth of the matter will have none of it. Damned retrograde barbarians.

Well said!

re: #79 jaunte

Is there a pop-psych name for "Distrust of Embassy Hostage-Takers?"

ShortShitaphobia?

re: #81 MandyManners

On the part of Amadinehad:
Nomocarteroshits

Ya want yer Iranophobia, Mister Ahmanuttijob?

Just wait until yer buddy Obama gets his ever-living ass kicked by McCain, or at least until he sinks so far behind McCain that Mohammed can't come down on a white horse and fix it. Then you will see Iranophobia, oh yes you will!

Iran is for me one of the most interesting stories. Having spent a tremendous amount of effort to get a grip on her, I can only say that she better than all other countries in that Islamic pit of earth, has the potential to subdue Islamism. If only she could wrench herself free of it.

Iranians aren't arabs. They aren't "persians" either. They are Iranian. Neither are they islamic by justice, as a people. They are far to bright to remain crushed under that spiked thumb of two thousand year old tribalist lunacy. She has not defended herself properly because non islamically devout Iranian men are cowards. There is no other explanation .

Perhaps I suffer from tyranniphobia. The Eleutherophobes are just going to have to deal with it.

re: #72 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

They also suffer from fear of eating at Howard Johnsons...HoJophobia
And the fear of strip clubs...gogophobia.

In my school of psychology, HoJophobia will be a broad based disorder, not restricted to fear of the brand name itself........namely, a fear of having to choose from too many options in what is essentially a trivial matter. A common modern affliction, too. And now I've found (heh...heh) a name for it !

OT: Instapundit on Ben Stein's Expelled.....

I hate writing about this stuff because -- pardon me while I speak plainly -- the people on both sides of this issue are assholes. I mean, even by the low standards of Internet discussion. I'm getting email calling me a "theocon shill" for mentioning Stein, and email telling me I'll burn in hell for calling Intelligent Design "pernicious twaddle." Frankly, the rabid atheists and the rabid creationists seem an awful lot alike, and no proper hell could be truly hellish without the both of them yammering away at each other. Feh.

Heh.

I hate snakes.

re: #83 RememberSekhmet?

Ya want yer Iranophobia, Mister Ahmanuttijob?

Just wait until yer buddy Obama gets his ever-living ass kicked by McCain, or at least until he sinks so far behind McCain that Mohammed can't come down on a white horse and fix it. Then you will see Iranophobia, oh yes you will!

Hmm.

I rather doubt that McCain will have the nuts to go and do the job on Iran.

iranophobia domains are available for a short time, for all you enterprising lizards out there:
[Link: www.name.com...]
/I think the .net domain has a crazy good sound to it.

The other shoe will fall, it's merely a matter of timing.

re: #37 Mich-again

How many times do I have to say it. Its not a phobia if the fear is rational.

If you were disinclined to put your hand near the mouth of a snarling pit bull, that would not mean you had a "phobia" about it.

Commonsenseophobia.

Too many centrifuges.

Reasonable phobia,

Action to follow.

if such a syndrome existed I would be considered clinical, what fear most is millions of people coming down with it moments before they are vaporized

re: #89 Golden Jerusalem

Hmm.

I rather doubt that McCain will have the nuts to go and do the job on Iran.

But if the job was already being done on Iran, he won't back out.

re: #89 Golden Jerusalem

Hmm.

I rather doubt that McCain will have the nuts to go and do the job on Iran.

I doubt it, too. I doubt that he'll do any better than the current president.
But it is w/in the realm of possibility that he will do better.
With either Dem, there is IMO no hope for improvement.
There is also a good chance things will be worse.

They also have a bad case of veritophobia, fear of the truth.

However, what the leftwingnutjobs and the Iranians and the islamist apologists have in common is that they don't understand that a phobia, be it socalled 'islamo', or 'homo' or 'arachno', is an IRRATIONAL FEAR of the situation, object or person against which the fear is directed. Thus, if you meet a mugger on the street with a loaded gun, and feel fear in the situation (no racial or gender or sexual orientation attributes to the mugger are given for this example), YOU ARE NOT MUGGEROPHOBIC, because you have a RATIONAL fear in this situation.
However if you met a sweet innocent schoolgirl in the same street who was carrying a daffodil to her class, and you reacted with the same fear that you felt when confronting the armed mugger (assuming that you are not allergic to daffodils, flowers, or pollen), then your have a PHOBIA, an IRRATIONAL FEAR in this situation.
So in order for one to have ISLAMO phobia, there would have to be no cause manufactured by a substantial portion of muslims in general, to give rise in a reasonable and rational mind that there is danger or something to be feared. When muslims react to cartoons and books with calls to behead, which are echoed by their leadership, it is not the people with so called islamophobia who are being irrational, but those members of the muslim community behaving in that pattern to which the label phobic is made manifest.

B-2Tomahawkashocknawea-phobia: A mental disorder that thus far has failed to become widespread in Iran.........but it should be.

I think that by the time we had our act together to get moving on Iran, it was getting too close to the 2008 election, and the last thing Bush wanted to do was start a war with Iran, only to have his successor back us out. So he has had to spend 2007 and 2008 trying to maintain a status quo in the rest of the Middle East and win it as much as possible in Iraq short of taking out the troublemakers in Iran.

Once the Bush Administration is more assured that the succeeding Administration will follow through, I think we will probably go after Iran more aggressively.

Hmm, Iranian troops crossed over into Afghanistan, where they got into a fire fight with Afghani troops. One Afghanis was killed during the clash. Not very smart Iran. Not very smart at all.

Iranophobia?
Step on it and wipe your shoes before you enter the room.

re: #84 justdanny

. She has not defended herself properly because non islamically devout Iranian men are cowards. There is no other explanation .

It's easy to come to the conclusion that non Muslim Iranian men are cowards. However, in the U.S., we face threats to our freedoms every day and, in some cases, we let them slip through our fingers. Do most Americans want a ban on incandescent light bulbs? Do most Americans want a ban on guns? Do most Americans want hijab covered women screening in the TSA? I'd say a hearty 'no', yet those are some of the issues that we've had to deal with in the recent past.

If we protest our government policies, there is no retribution from the government. If people in other parts of the world, like Iran, protest, they can literally lose their heads. Does that make them cowards? I'm not sure. I just don't want to resort to name calling when we can't really imagine the situation that they're contending with in Iran.

(Yes, I do find myself in the odd position of defending the Iranian people, so I guess that means I'm not an Iranophobe. However, I wouldn't mind getting rid of Ahmanutjob, so maybe I am an Iranophobe. It's all very confusing, is there a pamphlet that Reuters can send me that will explain the symptoms and treatment?)

I think most people in the world suffer from yankophobia and jewphobia. Especially those who believe that yanks and jews are phobic of them.

We must also not forget which country espoused and still espouses GreatSatanophobia and LittleSatanophobia, and has done so since 1979.

If the French can call the Germans "les Allemands", although that names just one of many tribes there, then Persia can be called Persia as well.

/or soon you´ll have to say "Iranian gulf"

LOL ....Iranophobia....well he can call it whatever he wants. I would love to tell him what I call him. haha

re: #84 justdanny

"j-d" -

Personally, I am a Farsiphile, just think their regime is ridiculous. And the thought of a Zorastrian or Bahai nation does appeal to me.

-S-

Make it mullahphobia.
And no, it's not irrational at all.

AIRACNOPHOBIA?

There's no USAophilia in the world?

The Iranians need not worry, because under the regime of Presidente B. Hussein Obama they will be negotiated with. No doubt Obama will send his special envoy, Kos, to make a peace deal. Also no doubt, special ambassador Kos will have to check he has all his fingers after his handshake deal with the Iranians, as well as take off his socks and sandals to check he has all his toes. Obama and co. would certainly have the experience to deal with those religious fanatics, they drink chardonnay and eat $100 pieces of ham. Change !
The sad reality for those peace-loving nuclear enthusiasts in Iran is that poor Barrack already had his John Kerry " windsurfer" moment with his "bitter" speech in San Francisco. He can make it through the dem primaries, but he won't be able to close the sale in a general election. John Bolton for Secretary of State under McCain. Watch them sweat.

re: #35 Fat Jolly Penguin

As long as we're on the subject of phobias, I ran across one that should be perfect for most liberals. Athazagoraphobia: the fear of being ignored.

That website has a good one for secularists: Hierophobia! (Being afraid of sacred things, apparently.)

As for me, I'm a proud idiophobe: I have a bizarre fear of ceasing to continually admit that Truth exists.

OK, but was this researched better than the hair ray theory?
And, does a bee sting on the foot cure it?