Obama kills funding for Iranian human-rights watch agency

Hot Air ^ | October 6, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

[opentalk]

The Iran Human Rights Watch Documentation Center can be excused for thinking that this year might make them more indispensable than ever. After all, the Iranian mullahcracy rigged a presidential election and brutally suppressed widespread protests and demonstrations against the ruling elite. Their Basiji irregulars murdered and maimed people in the street. The State Department’s agency for documenting such human-rights abuses in that country would have to work overtime in the next several weeks just to catch up on all of the data they need to review from the last eleven weeks. Instead, they’re going to pack their bags and go home next

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Many see the sudden, unexplained cutoff of funding as a shift by the Obama administration away from high-profile democracy promotion in Iran, which had become a signature issue for President Bush. But the timing has alarmed some on Capitol Hill. “The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center is at the forefront of pioneering and vitally important work,’’ said Senator Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, in a statement yesterday. “It is disturbing that the State Department would cut off funding at precisely the moment when these brave investigations are needed most.’’

Instead, Obama has made it clear that those issues won’t even enter into his calculations, and will stop spending money on collecting that data. That will save us a few million dollars a year, but will cost us much, much more in credibility in the long run. It’s a setup for appeasement.

[SolidWood]

Of course he does! Just like Carter he is groweling before the mullah regime. Just as I would expect from a treasonous ‘rat.

[Republic]

I hate uhbama. How could any American defund such a critical group. I hate him....he is stupid, selfish and a deep kisser of everything dirty, like Iran’s leader or Venezuela’s leader. He is messsed up, disturbed and possibly mentally ill.

[Armaggedon]

Obama never met a tyrant he did not like. Free people are a threat to the Obama cult.

[La Lydia]

But Obama is president now, so there are no more human rights violations. Anywhere in the world. Ever. Isn’t it wonderful? Mmm Mmm Mmm

[opentalk]

We were sold something else. His words and actions contradict each other. I would feel better if he did not have the Muslim roots and Islam connections.

[cranked]

Nothing more than Barry seeking to keep with his counter-”meddling” Iranian policy since of course, Barry has already accepted Iran as a nuclear fact.

[dalebert]

why dont they cut the bridges to nowhere?

[Gator113]

Obama, the coward, has decided to bow to the leaders of Iran.

Iran WILL be allowed to build their nuclear weapons of mass destruction..... and destruction they WILL do.

I wonder, will Iran nuke Israel first or will they already have in place a means to destroy a few of our large cities, so that simultaneous shock and awe attacks can be launched?