Posted on 06/23/2009 9:43:08 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Did Mirhossein Mousavi play a leading role in the 1983 attack in Lebanon that killed more than 240 US Marines and caused Ronald Reagan to retreat? CQ Politics says yes, calling Mousavi the “Butcher of Beirut”. It serves as a reminder that the man whom the mullahs have suppressed was and perhaps still is of their regime:
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Oh you will find many more unsavoury things about anyone in the current islamic regime. Anyone surprised?
This is why the entire regime needs to be removed, not just the government.
BTW the Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki hasn’t covered himself with glory as well in the 1980’s.
If this is true I can’t say I am surprised. There’s a reason why the mullahs allowed for Mahmoud #2 to be in the balloting.
Some commentators have suggested that the protests are not really so much about who won and who lost the election, but against the Thugocracy that has been running things since the Carter-sponsored revolution.
They want something like the freedom that Iran had under the Shah, although few people back then loved the Shah or understood what they were losing.
Maybe that’s unrealistic. But youo can’t help sympathizing with them.
Bush's Fault...
Many protestors are shouting “Death to Khamenei” and burned pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini and Khamenei.
Neda, the young woman who was shot, was described by her fiance to be against both nutjob and Mousavi and anti-regime.
It is shortsighted to think that this is only about Musavi. The election fraud was just the drop that filled the bucket.
This is about the regime itself, not just the cabinet anymore.
It's why I've had a very hard time getting worked up about what's happening in Iran now. I now think that I was wrong about that. Screw Mousavi, he's not important. I think this is about more than the election and certainly about more than Mousavi. The biggest thing that changed my mind is the fact that so many of the protestors signs are written in English. They want out from under tyrrany and they want the world to know it. I respect that and support anyone brave enough to risk their lives for liberty.
I sympathize 100% with Iranians who want the regime gone and sympathize 0% with any figure of the current regime, including Musavi.
He is a tool... in both senses. Until now he was a tool of the regime, but has been turned to be a tool to crack up the very regime he was part of.
Quite an irony, actually.
Yeah..., this whole “Iran election” thing is a farce from the start to the finish. Not because it was fixed or anything, that’s not what I mean. I mean that electing one Muslim terrorist or another Muslim terrorist is doing exactly the same thing.
What do you expect a country composed of 98% Muslims? Do you think they’re gonna elected a freedom-loving non-Muslim? Nope, they’re gonna elect whatever Muslim terrorist accords to the Koran and Sharia law...
This “western mindset” that there exists such a thing as free elections in a Muslim country shows how idiotic some people are in their thinking... LOL...
It’s just conceivable that if the current government were overthrown and Musavi were installed in its place, he would change his political approach because he needed to rely on the good will of the people who put him into power.
That means too unlikely events: overturning the government, and getting some sort of decent behavior out of Mousavi. But it’s at least possible.
But it’s noticeable that the demonstrators on both sides are yelling “Allahu Akhbar” as they demonstrate or shoot demonstraors. Yet they mean something different by it, though the words are the same. Iran would still be an Islamic republic, but it could be a lot less of a troublemaker in the world than it is now.
The odds are highly against it. But no harm in hoping.
Seriously, the issue now is NOT Mousavi vs I’manutjob.
It’s about the Iranian people vs the Mullah Government.
It’s about their ability to actually choose their leadership.
So it doesn’t really matter that there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between them.
The Allahuakbar cries are a reference to the 1979 Revolution, as are other symbols like going to the rooftop at night etc. and shouting “Marg bar dictator”.
I don’t read too much into that. These things are hardly expressions of piety, but rather messages to the powers in charge that it’s now their turn.
I recall clearly that when Nutjob was named the leader of IRAN, a number of the hostages held for 444 days came out immediately and said that Nutjob was the leader of the people who had taken them hostage. CIA tried to deny it, but I believe the persons who were there.
If we know the identity of ANY of the individuals responsible for the Beruit bombing, we should dispatch them with a discreet wet work team (CIA lingo for assasins). That goes for any other of the S.O.B.’s who have committed heinous acts against our military or civilians.
I heard there is an "understanding" in place that the Quds wouldn't get too carried away in Iraq if Dubya agreed not too go after them after it was proven that the later IEDs were coming from Iran.
Place is a tar pit. I used to be with the nuke 'em all crowd but then I see the video of Neda.
The Iranian Nutjob president may have been one of the terrorists involved in the 1970s hostage crisis.
If they neglect to mention this in the truthfile, it’s painting an unfair depiction of the election.
Like when David Duke was a nationally recognized “Republican” even though he’d been a Democrat politician, Independent Politician, and then Republican, and now Independent again. He’s still referred to as a former Republican or former Republican candidate.
It’ll be interesting to see what comes up in his background check. Then again, our own president was not vetted and aligned with some of the absolute worst domestic terrorist figures of the 1970s.
I recall clearly that when Nutjob was named the leader of IRAN, a number of the hostages held for 444 days came out immediately and said that Nutjob was the leader of the people who had taken them hostage. CIA tried to deny it, but I believe the persons who were there.
My sentiments exactly.
If the terrorist Mousavi can get rid of the theocracy then that is fine by me. It isn’t a great victory but it is a step in the right direction.
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