Comments on: Iran Agrees To Partial Recount. Moussavi Rejects. http://donklephant.com/2009/06/16/iran-agrees-to-partial-recount-moussavi-rejects/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:53:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reaganite Republican Resistance http://donklephant.com/2009/06/16/iran-agrees-to-partial-recount-moussavi-rejects/comment-page-1/#comment-486531 Reaganite Republican Resistance Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:51:18 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=15201#comment-486531 Isn’t this what George W Bush told you was going to happen in the Middle East? Maybe that’s why Barack Obama has so little apparent interest in finishing the job in Iran… no matter how much it benefits the US and free world. Anyone who expected him to act in the interests of the United States -rather than for his own political security- hasn’t taken a serious look at how Obama got this far in the first place. http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ Isn’t this what George W Bush told you was going to happen in the Middle East?

Maybe that’s why Barack Obama has so little apparent interest in finishing the job in Iran… no matter how much it benefits the US and free world.

Anyone who expected him to act in the interests of the United States -rather than for his own political security- hasn’t taken a serious look at how Obama got this far in the first place.

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Jimmy the Dhimmi http://donklephant.com/2009/06/16/iran-agrees-to-partial-recount-moussavi-rejects/comment-page-1/#comment-486395 Jimmy the Dhimmi Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:42:57 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=15201#comment-486395 Lets not forget that Moussavi is no pro-western freedom fighter. He is a lackey of the governing council and helped create the nuclear weapons program. Lets not forget that Moussavi is no pro-western freedom fighter. He is a lackey of the governing council and helped create the nuclear weapons program.

]]> By: kranky kritter http://donklephant.com/2009/06/16/iran-agrees-to-partial-recount-moussavi-rejects/comment-page-1/#comment-486182 kranky kritter Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=15201#comment-486182 When it comes to how Iran is actually governed, what part of "supreme ruler" don't folks understand? The President is like the coach of a football team, and the supreme ruler is the owner. The supreme ruler and his handpicked council of subservient advisor/deciders is not interested in legitimate democracy. As politicians, they are generally interested in minimizing their exposure to negative publicity. But they are 100% uninterested in anything that actually diminishes their authority. All of the current activity in Iran and the coming activities there in next few weeks and months will be easily explainable by reference to the previous paragraph. These elections were window dressing. Anything else that happens there will be window dressing. If you wanna argue about the curtains on the prison cell window, knock yourselves out. These events surprise me just as much as China's ruthless crushing of the student revolution. Which is say, they don't surprise me at all. I have zero expectation of peaceful government reform in Iran any time soon. When it comes to how Iran is actually governed, what part of “supreme ruler” don’t folks understand? The President is like the coach of a football team, and the supreme ruler is the owner.

The supreme ruler and his handpicked council of subservient advisor/deciders is not interested in legitimate democracy. As politicians, they are generally interested in minimizing their exposure to negative publicity. But they are 100% uninterested in anything that actually diminishes their authority.

All of the current activity in Iran and the coming activities there in next few weeks and months will be easily explainable by reference to the previous paragraph. These elections were window dressing. Anything else that happens there will be window dressing. If you wanna argue about the curtains on the prison cell window, knock yourselves out.

These events surprise me just as much as China’s ruthless crushing of the student revolution. Which is say, they don’t surprise me at all. I have zero expectation of peaceful government reform in Iran any time soon.

]]> By: @robotsoul http://donklephant.com/2009/06/16/iran-agrees-to-partial-recount-moussavi-rejects/comment-page-1/#comment-486173 @robotsoul Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:43:38 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=15201#comment-486173 Anything less than a new vote is worthless to the people of Iran. The cleric support is a substantial move, it shows that the desire for change is not limited to the "elite" populations which seems to the argument forwarded by the mainstream media, usually followed by the logically flawed argument that somehow Ahmadinejad could have legitimately won. Some have gone so far as to officially recognize his re-election: http://www.newsy.com/videos/same_old_same_old Anything less than a new vote is worthless to the people of Iran. The cleric support is a substantial move, it shows that the desire for change is not limited to the “elite” populations which seems to the argument forwarded by the mainstream media, usually followed by the logically flawed argument that somehow Ahmadinejad could have legitimately won. Some have gone so far as to officially recognize his re-election: http://www.newsy.com/videos/same_old_same_old

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