In an related item:
The man who leaked the real election results from the Interior Ministry – the ones showing Ahmadinejad coming third – was killed in a suspicious car accident, according to unconfirmed reports, writes Saeed Kamali Dehghan in Tehran.
Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the security of the IT network in Iran’s interior ministry, was killed yesterday in Tehran. Asgari had reportedly leaked results that showed the elections were rigged by government use of new software to alter the votes from the provinces. Asgari was said to have leaked information that showed Mousavi had won almost 19 million votes, and should therefore be president. We will try to get more details later.
Sometimes an accident is just an accident, and sometimes an accident is an assassination.
#35
Fancy speeches alone will not effect change in Iran. If anything his speeches have encouraged their despotic government.
#42
Freedom has never really been tried. We never overthrew North Korea. Had MacArthur been allowed to use nukes it might have turned out different.
We continue to make the same mistakes with despotic governments. The only way to change them is to eliminate them. The most peaceful change in tyrannical government, Britain, took five or six hundred years. The only way change happens in Iran is either revolution or invasion.
#78, qb,
I thank you for the offer.
I was born and spent much of my life in Canada. My father is American, just like John McCain’s. That makes me an American, and a Canadian.
Alphie can eat my shorts, after I wear them another week or so.
#81, Thomas,
The most peaceful change in tyrannical government, Britain, took five or six hundred years.
Well, not quite. It took a couple of generations and a civil war. After that, the King (Charles II) was forced to recognize the supremacy of Parliament. The next King that tried the tyranny route (James II) was forced to abdicate and leave the country. After that, all British monarchs ruled with the acquiescence of Parliament.
But I understand what you mean.
#82
“..I was born and spent much of my life in Canada..”
So you really aren’t playing with a full deck…that explains alot!
(just a little tease…no offense intended)
#75 Mr Fusion…the illegitimate offspring of Magoo and the probing alien ufo over the Ozarks…
a male male fusion…
Obviously Not an American, passport notwithstanding.
85 Alfred1
Coming from you, a barely functional human, do you really believe your “insults” bear any weight? Don’t you have a King James scripture to quote?
You’re one of a kind Alfred1. Thank FSM for that!
#86 Vice President Cheney taught me a valuable lesson I will strive to learn…
When Panetta used typical leftist deception to misdirect attention to Cheney, away from the asinine Obama policy of reading Miranda etc to terrorists and enemy combatants, with slander about Cheney’s motives…
And a reporter asked his response to that…
With much class, and acumen, he denied the accusation and then repeated his charge Obama’s policies were naive, foolish and stupid…
He did allow Panetta to succeed in changing the subject…That’s what I will focus on doing henceforth.
He did NOT allow Panetta’s deceitful tactic succeed in changing the subject…
Come on Guys Think Do you guys really think that cnn,Foxnews,MSNBC are the only people to provide real news? Let me remind you all that they are the same people that try and shove BS stories like spending an hour talking about lindsey loham stealing some ear rings. Do we really think they run the important issues ? Do we really think they are gonna report somthing that our president wants to stay away from?
87, 88 Alfred1,
So, I’m guessing by your schizophrenic answer that you indeed did NOT learn the lesson… or did…
You are the living end… Learning from Cheney… that’s second to your Genius Bush comment…
# 89 mlock2k said, “Do we really think they are gonna report somthing that our president wants to stay away from?”
Yes, it’s why Obama is crying like a little girl over Fox. They are starting to ask embarrassing questions of Obama and he can’t figure out how he’s going to get them to blindly accept what he is spewing.
I was considering that transition to start at the Magna Carta until the 18th century or so. It wasn’t peaceful; it was the most peaceful transition and that still had its bumps as you mentioned.
Ironic being the US has pretty much had all of its elections controlled / rigged for a hundred years and counting….
#91 That’s what causes him to lose sleep…that reporters begin asking for an explanation of the inconsistencies…he speaks all the right things…even while announcing he will do the opposite things…it really is impressive…as though a JEDI mind trick has been done on the press.
94 Alfred1
So…. Now you support Obama?
“he speaks all the right things…even while announcing he will do the opposite things…it really is impressive”
#95 No…impersonator, a dickless troll too scared to use his own pseudonym…now that is truly dickless.
Hey, Impersonator, Obama care will not pay for a “add a dictonomy…you are shit out of luck…
96 Alfred1,
What’s a dictonomy? I can’t find it in any ENGLISH dictionary… Maybe it’s in King James Edition?
You mean some of you guys actually read Arfy’s drivel anymore? Life’s too short.
#98, GetSmart Guy,
Its great entertainment. That’s Alphie underwater blowing Bubbles. Bubbles is the fat guy.
Well, for once I agree with the “libs” here. It’s refreshing to see little intervention from the US in this Iran issue. Thank god that shitty Carter “Center” didn’t mess up the thing by endorsing Ahmedinahnut or offering themselves as “mediators”.