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The Iraq Study Group seriously proposes that we have a nice little coffee klatch with Iran as one of the ways to resolve the situation in the Middle East, putting the group in comfortably with many Democrats and all Europeans. Put aside the fact that Iran has for 27 years spearheaded the Jihadist revolution. Put aside the fact that Iran is going nuclear as fast as it can. Put aside the fact that Iran is trying to rewrite history to advance its own tyrannical rule. Let’s just take a minute to look at how Iran treats its own citizens.

Did you notice, by the way, that while women in Iran are veiled from head to toe and have no rights whatsoever, making them little better than animals, girls become legal adults at 9 years old?

Have you also noticed how this is not a cause celebre on the Left, although it manifestly should be? While the Left is demanding gay marriage, its members are almost completely silent about stopping gay torture and execution in Iran and other Muslim countries. It’s an extremely twisted version of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” In other words, these people are so anxious to see George Bush politically humiliated that they’ll be silent about any nation that has the potential to humiliate him.

By the way, this somewhat boring video will give you a good idea about the political alignment regarding gay torture in Iran. A small group of gays are appropriately outraged; everyone else says we’re just slandering those poor Iranians who are already suffering enough from Western imperialism:

Here’s an overlapping video that’s a little shorter on the same subject: