Posted on 06/18/2009 7:56:48 PM PDT by nuconvert
The only problem - the libs and the media will work to give obama credit if Iran’s dictatorship falls.
If the military decides thatKahmeini goes, he goes.
I willbet that there is some power hungry type thinking about gettingrid ofthat corrupt old man.
What is unclear is how deep their loyalty is to the so called Islamic Republic. It sounds like the attempted repression is coming from private militias - gangs, iow
I was watching him make his lie-speech on TV at lunchtime and I thought the same thing: “Your days in power could be numbered, Turban-Boy.”
When in reality, some of the credit should go to whomever it was that freed Iran's neighbors on its eastern and western borders. That is definitely a factor.
What was that guy's name again?
Yeah - got it right on the tip of my tongue - uh, uh...
The big difference is that America WILL most likely see a second civil war/revolution because we have A LOT of patriots.
The speech sounded like the ramblings of a psycho - very much like Ahmadinejad’s speeches. (opium? who me?) Why do dictators always give rambling incohesive speeches?
It was long.
Basically, he said that the vote was legitimite, there was no vote rigging, he is fully supporting AHmadinejad (duh) and called for calm and for the rallies to end. Or ELSE.
Of course the Zionists & U.S. were blamed for instigating trouble.
What was interesting is that he mentioned Rafsanjani several times, and not in a particularly flattering light.
Tomorrow will tell a lot.
While their good squads, imported and home grown, will bend over to protect them...don't count on the police and army to do same if they start killing Iranians in the street...There is the problem. They know if they order the "protests to be crushed" it will be all or nothing...If the army moves in to protect the people the Mullahs will eventually hang from lam posts...if the army and police stay silent and allow the goon squads to do their job....bye, bye revolution.
In a free country you give a rambling incomprehensible speech and you'd get booed off the stage.
In a totalitarian country, you boo, and you disappear.
Intimidating citizens is how these thugs get their "god/Barney Frank complex". We keep our freedom by standing up to them. The Iranians are getting off their knees.
It'll be over for us and them when we're afraid to boo a puffed up ego maniac. And when they slink away in fear.
Castro was a rambling fool and his beaten down citizens would stand in the heat for three and four hours listening to his drivel. Same with Kim IckyPoop in North Korea.
Same with the thugs in Iran. They have the "God/Barney Frank " complex - big time.
Thanks, nuconvert.
Informative article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8109972.stm
More protests tomorrow
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8108983.stm
Thanks
For the past two decades, the 69-year-old has been the ultimate source of power in Iran. A middle-ranking cleric who was elevated by his mentor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, during the final months of his life, Mr Khamenei exercises enormous influence over the way the country is run. But when he delivers today's sermon at Friday prayers in Tehran, which is normally broadcast nationwide, he will be fighting as much to save his own position as that of his beleaguered president.His proper position is to be separated from his head, which will then be paraded on a pole through the streets of Tehran.
Whoops, and thanks AdmSmith!
Kinda has a familiar ring to it, doesn't it?
The only question remaining is: Who was the architect of ZerØ's rise?
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