Yet, our "President" is more content to eat ice cream and host a luau, while people in Iran are desperately fighting for freedom. Ugh! Obama & the rest of our leaders just make me sick!
Who cares? Somebody named Michael Jackson is dead.
If this is true, where’s Bambi gonna go for his next speech ?
I’m slow...do we LIKE the coup because it is against, Dinnerjacket, or NOT LIKE it because its a face-saving gesture that will keep the Mullah’s in power and distance them from Dinnerjacket?
The luau whoop dee doo was in bad taste and very disrespectuful of the great suffering being incurrd by people trying to break free of oppression.
Our whole congress was there partying at the WH while the thugs they agreed to “respectfully” listen to and negotiate with
were throwing women off bridges, dumping acid on crowds from helicopters, seizing corpses from hospitals, and axing teenage boys in the streets
I’m not saying intervene but sheesh TOTUS
use the bully pulpit for something larger than yourself, and set an exampe of gravitas...for a change
I'll believe it when the military starts beating on the government instead of the protesters.
and our media as well, Michael Jackson yappa yappa yap yap yap.Don't complain when the crazys nuke New York
From the Wash Times Tyrrell column today: “Having lost confidence in the police and members of the street militia, the Basij, he called out the Revolutionary Guard to clamp down on the protests. Interestingly, the head of the guard in the province of Tehran, Gen. Ali Fazli, a veteran of the Iraqi-Iranian war, refused to fire on his own countrymen and has been arrested.”
The mullahs have to go.
Claiming a military coup is really misleading. The Revolutionary Guards is a paramilitary unit that has been given much power over the actual Iranian military forces. If there had been a military coup there would be fighting in the streets involving the military and the Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran). In fact, this simply cements the mullahs’ hold on the populace and is no coup at all.
Of course it’s a coup.
It’s been brewing for years. Ahmadinejad is no joke. The guy was an IRGC Special Operations for Extranational assasinations commander in his youth. He’s as cunning as it gets.
I’m having flashbacks.
Those that believed in democracy lost the last time.
Prayers
Right after the election, 11 o’clock at night, was a military coup because they went to (presidential candidate Mir Hossein) Mousavi’s headquarters — five persons from the Revolutionary Guard — and told him that, ‘Yes, the leader says that this is true, you have won the election, you are the elected president, but you can’t be the president. (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad should remain in the position.’
“And then they started to invent those fake numbers in Ministry of Interior. And right after that they started to arrest the people, to disconnect the country, to dismiss the reporters, and that is the reason that we call it a military coup.”
Replace Mousavi with whomever and replace Ahmadinejad with Obama and you have American elections to come...
This indicates that at least one faction of the Army is backing the mullahs and Ahwannajihad.
The fact we have not seen Army units in the streets, as well as the notable and noticeable absence of the regular uniformed police for use in the crackdown suggests that faction may well be in a minority at the time, and other units are indeed restricted to base/barracks.
This is indicative of a classic power struggle.
We don't - can't - know what's going on behind the scenes, but the very fact that the “protests” continue unabated, albeit in lower numbers, leads one to believe these people know something is up, and they won't quit until such time as the fuse is finally lit for certain.
No, this thing isn't over yet - not by a long shot!
CA....
“I really hope and pray the Khamenei/Ahmadinejad/Mullah regime is overthrown. “
Yes. But the people don’t want to become another Myanmar. So a military coup is NOT a good thing.
Could be our future in 2012.
This from NPR? National Public Radio? Do they have permission from the Messiah to make this story public? Or if true, have they already worked out how he can take credit for the “new democracy!”
Meanwhile, in Tehran, Authorities Rule Iran Election ‘Healthy’
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/world/middleeast/27iran.html?ref=world
“amounts to a “military coup” has occurred in his country”.
Then why are the protestors still getting beaten?