re: #213 garhighway

Yes I can. The USSR was an evil dictatorship, too. But they were, within limits, rational. I have seen nothing that suggests that Saddam was irrational or that the Iranians are.

The USSR was not an absolutist dictatorship with a single absolutist head, and I point out that it was dissolved essentially peacefully by its own leadership.

I never said Saddam was irrational. I do however think that some of the leadership in Iran is irrational, as illustrated by their prayer for the second coming in every speech their front man makes.