Pooya Karimian
Links Archives: If Cindy and Akbar Could Meet | csmonitor.com
August 13, 2005
If Cindy and Akbar Could Meet | csmonitor.com
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0811/p08s01-comv.html
'...Both Sheehan and Ganji deserve great sympathy for their suffering: she for the loss of a child; he for being jailed on trumped-up charges and then subjecting himself to a long hunger strike as a way to draw attention to his cause. Both once supported the leaders they now criticize. Ganji was an advocate of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Sheehan, after meeting Bush last year, lauded him, saying, "I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis." Yet now both are on either side of a debate on how much sacrifice should be made to bring democracy to the Middle East...'
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Posted to Politics by pooya at August 13, 2005 11:18 PM
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