Obama Votes “Present” On Iran as The Iranian Thugs Execute Dozens

Flopping Aces ^ | 07-06-09 | Curt

[Starman417]

While people get ready to spend their time and money to honor a twisted individual who could sing, Michael Jackson, nary a peep comes from most of the country about Obama voting present as Iran cracks down even harder on those wanting a free and fair election.

Guess that's what should be expected when 52% of this country fall victim to one of the great swindlers of our time.

Michael Ledeen:

The Iranian tyrant, Ali Khamenei, told his cluster of top advisers two days ago that it was time to totally shut down the protests, and he ordered that any and all demonstrators, regardless of their status, be arrested (although there is no longer room for new prisoners in Tehran’s jails; they are now using sports arenas as holding areas). He further ordered that all satellite dishes be taken down (good luck with that one; there are probably millions of them in Tehran alone). He ordered that the crackdown be done at night, to avoid all those annoying videos. By Sunday night, hundreds of new arrests had been made, including the regime’s favorite targets: students, intellectuals, and journalists.

His deadline: July 11th. He told his minions that if that were accomplished, the rest of the world would come crawling to him.

He may be right about most of the rest of the world, which has distinguished itself by its fecklessness, but he is certainly not right about his own people, who have sabotaged a major petroleum pipeline in Lurestan, and who are planning to go on strike in the next few days. I don’t know the provenance of the people who hit the pipeline (perhaps the fact that the political desk of the Tehran Times reported it is significant), but calls for strikes, building towards a big demonstration on July 9th, come from Mousavi, Karroubi and Khatami.

Even a group of clerics in the city of Qom have come out and called the election and the "winners" illegitimate.

That's pretty big news, and signs that a major crack in the earth is opening up and what do we get from the one?

Unfortunately, our own leaders in the United States are not doing all that they could to capitalize on this unprecedented opportunity to deal a lethal blow to radical Islam. The only action the Obama administration is taking is to sell out Honduras to socialist dictatorship. As for Iran, both President Obama and Vice-President Biden declare that they are still seeking an "engagement" with the blood-soaked military junta in Tehran.

In an interview with The New York Times, a day before his scheduled departure for Moscow on Sunday, Mr. Obama said he had "grave concern" about the arrests and intimidation of Iran's opposition leaders, but insisted, as he has throughout the Iranian crisis, that the repression would not close the door on negotiations with the Iranian government.

Sorry, no other word to describe this other then cowardly. He doesn't have the balls nor the fortitude to chose the side that only wants their votes heard. He's proven his inability to lead in Iran and now Honduras. And now we are the laughing stock of the world. A once great power who led the world towards Democracy is now sitting on the sidelines waiting to find out who wins...THEN he will tell the world that he sided with the winner all along, he just didn't want to be a nuisance you see.

What a coward.

[Steve Van Doorn]

When is the military going to pick a side?

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

“He doesn’t have the balls nor the fortitude to chose the side that only wants their votes heard.”

This is a dangerously uninformed view of the internal politics of Iran. For a less obtuse view than can be seen through the lens of MSM, see:

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090629_real_struggle_iran_and_implications_u_s_dialogue

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics_iran_holding_center_mountain_fortress

http://www.stratfor.com/geopolitical_diary/20090621_geopolitical_diary_irans_battles_streets_and_behind_scenes

[STE=Q]

He’s proven his inability to lead in Iran and now Honduras.

Shameful, feckless wonder!

American's are far from perfect but I never thought we would be known for cowardice.

I'm doing everything in my power to let the Iranian freedom fighters know -- in spite of the puppet in the White House -- that Americans are with them 100%

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