warning!

[Luke Weiger]

Justin wrote:
> Why not Iran? Today the Trib had a picture of President Khameni
identifying
> him as "the supreme leader," although he was elected through a process
that
> actually awarded the presidency to the winner of the majority vote, unlike
> some countries I can think of, where the president is appointed by the
> Supreme Court, and the Sun Times, under its 9/11 heading "America Strikes
> Back," captioned the photo "President Khameni (at least acknowleding that)
> rants against America." Of course if Iran had recentlty flattened Canada
and
> listed the US as a memberof the "axis of evil," Bush might be ranting too.
>
> jks

Could the counterfactual be more tendentious?  Accuracy generally collapses
beneath the weight of rhetorical flourish...

-- Luke