Posted on 06/16/2009 2:50:05 AM PDT by Scanian
Iran's President Ahmadinejad, a veteran of the Islamic Republic's repressive Revolutionary Guard, took office on August 3, 2005, after unexpected win in a sham presidential election -- there are no democratic elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran. All candidates are prescreened by the Guardian Council before they are allowed to run for office. In practice, a president of Iran is already chosen through a farce process of giving the voters a chance to elect one of the men hand-picked from the regime's functionaries, as was the case with President Ahmadinejad.
During the previous "election," only a small percentage of the voters bothered to vote, since voting under the pre-screening and undemocratic system of the mullahs is more like selection than election. The result of staying away from the polls materialized in the person of the fascist Ahmadinejad.
The great majority of the people of Iran are disillusioned and even disgusted by the mediaeval incompetent, oppressive, and corrupt rule of the mullahs, irrespective of which mafia gang is in power. The votes, more than anything else, are protest ballots cast against the entire system, rather than indications of support for the so-called conservative-moderate coalition.
It took less than 4 years for Iranians to realize that boycotting the so-called elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran can only bring to power even a worse bunch of Islamofascists. This time around the people turned out to vote for the lesser of two camps of evil -- the mullah dominated gang of conservatives and "moderates."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I’m sure that President Obama will have something profound and thoughtful to say about this!
[crickets]
Ummm....President Obama?
[crickets]
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It’s called wishful thinking. Your fall back when your prime strategy of talking fails.
What nonsense.The lesser of evils.
The lesser of evils is still EVIL.
As stated by the writers ALL the candidates are picked and allowed to run by the real ruling mullahs. While you may get superficial difference in public speaking by one candidate or the other then truth remains that the islamofacists run the country and control the military and a huge segment of the population are okay with that........
I think the Iranians wanted a chance to express their desire not to be blown to pieces by Israel.
Now they’re going to be destroyed.
Mousavi and Khorrubi - for all their many faults - will get rid of the Besiji thought-police. And if Khorrubi got in, there would be legal protection for the private press and greater freedom for women.
A lesser evil really is more good than a greater evil. The Iranian people are crying out for the slightest relaxation of the grip of the Mullah state and the religious police.
And you would declare their vote an act of intrinsic evil? Shame on you.
The article said — “... there are no democratic elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
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Of course not. Iran is 98% Muslim in its population. What does one expect from a group of people who adhere to an evil and despicable religious/political system called Islam?
If people belong to that evil political system called Islam, it’s no wonder that they choose evil and oppressive people, too — to run the country....
What nonsense.The lesser of evils.
The lesser of evils is still EVIL.
Yes it is, but when it’s obvious that the majority voted for
the lesser of evils and what they got was the greater, the
reality is there for all to see.
This was not an election. The people are using it as a pretext to rise up against a totalitarian regime. Here’s the definition of election. Do you believe that this is what took place in Iran?
Election
The act of choosing; choice; selection.
The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
Does the above sound remotely like what occured in Iran?
And that's why we see so many pics and youtube videos (aside: good pics here) of Basiji beating up pro-Mousavi demonstrators. What we may be seeing is a factional split within the ruling mullahcracy, with some getting uncomfortable with the power of the Revolutionary Guard and the Basiji.
Who says so that has any power?
Actually, it will probably be more like GHWB’s “Chicken Kiev” speech...
BTTT!
The editorial sidebar is your friend. That’s where commentaries like this belong.
I wonder if deep down in the bowels of CIA and State it has been concluded that the current nutbag leader of Iran (the nutbag leader we know) is preferable to the wannabe nutbag leader of Iran (who happens to be the godfather of Iran’s nuclear weapons program).
It wouldn’t surprise me if the election was rigged with our blessing, if not our help.
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