Posted on 03/05/2005 6:37:46 AM PST by Richie Rich
Who said the following?
“Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997). (It is) the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote in six elections: Two for president; two for the Parliament, the Majlis; two for the mayoralties. In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote. There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.”
Michael Moore? Tim Robbins? Sean Penn? Wrong - the above statement was spoken by none other than Former President Clinton in a recent interview with Charlie Rose at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. I think President Clinton forgot that Iran is the country that seized the U.S. embassy in 1979 and took 70 hostages, has proven to be a major violator of human rights, is a key sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East and is the country that recently called upon the world to convert to Islam.
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Oops... There goes his hope for a better legacy!
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