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To: grey_whiskers
If there are any, they have been drowned out by his insults of other FReepers and of conservatives in general.

Well, insults and name-calling are pretty much the par for course here. You've been here 5 years you should know that already.

Even if that were true (which I haven't verified to my satisfaction yet),

So you didn't know Mousavi was actually the Iranian PM in the 1980s and was probably a bigger bad-ass than Ahmadinejad is now. Pitiful.

that doesn't detract from the facts on the ground that Ahmadinejad and his followers are gunning down peaceful protestors to cement in place the results of a probably fraudulent election.

No, it doesn't. But you have to look at the bigger picture though. The President of Iran is just a figurehead; the Ayatollah holds the real power. Had Mousavi won, he'd still would have called for the destruction of Israel and antagonized the West anyway, albeit with a smiley face.

By your logic, we ought to support Obama, since John McCain just said he is doing a good job as President.

No, I'm saying it's best to let events play out in Iran on its own.

97 posted on 06/21/2009 10:05:21 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
So you didn't know Mousavi was actually the Iranian PM in the 1980s and was probably a bigger bad-ass than Ahmadinejad is now. Pitiful.

He *was*. The question is, has he toned it down, or is he just lusting after power for himself? Top lapdog under the Mullahs still beats also-ran or peon.

And that leaves unaddressed the gunning down of unarmed women in the streets: if they're having a "Death to the Great Satan!" foreign policy in any case, it is still a step forward to let the people *choose* their elected officials.

No, I'm saying it's best to let events play out in Iran on its own.

How will that advance U.S. interests OR the values of Freedom and Democracy?

Cheers! Cheers!

109 posted on 06/21/2009 10:15:13 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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