Comments on: State media: Ahmeanie wins reelection in Iran

By: Tango

Tango — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:50:49 +0000

….there was never any doubt as to the outcome of this election, despite the world media’s attempt to paint it as a horse race. Now Ahmadinejhad and his 12er pals can get back to their priority task…

By: forest hunter

forest hunter — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:23:21 +0000

Is Acorn helpin count the *votes*?

By: SpideyTerry

SpideyTerry — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:47:49 +0000

This election was meaningless from the start. Why do so many people not see it? Even if Moussavi pulls out a win, it wouldn’t change anything. He would be under the thumbs of those maniacs that are actually in charge. Those people have made their intentions (supporting terrorists, obtaining nuclear weapons, attacking Israel) quite clear, and they can’t be voted out of office. A moderate Iranian president wouldn’t change their objectives and wouldn’t be able to anyway.

By: Anthony (Los Angeles)

Anthony (Los Angeles) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:11:43 +0000

I’d read on Twitter and elsewhere that the polls were held open late and the tabulations delayed. Given the enthusiasm of Moussavi’s supporters (and the size of the crowds), I’m willing to bet the same thing happened tonight as when Ahmadinejad last won: a rigged election. The mullahs saw their preferred candidate was losing, so they stuffed the ballot boxes at the end. While, Moussavi is no pro-Western reformer, his popularity with the large number of disaffected Iranians gives him a power base independent of the black-robed religious fascists who run Iran, and they couldn’t tolerate that. So they again practiced a little Chicago-style Hope-n-Change of their own.

But I sometimes think that, for us, there was no real difference among the two candidates, except perhaps one is a wee bit less of a millenarian nut. We’re really talking about shades of “Nazi” here – but they’re still Nazis.

In the end, I don’t think it makes much difference, and PBO will acquiesce to an Iranian bomb. And then God help us all.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:04:30 +0000

Yeah, and you can count on our glorious leader to lend support to the unrest in Tehran, too.

NOT!

He not only has not the cajones, but he lacks any modicum of intelligence to come to that position even if he had the desire to interfere with a nation that just wants to develop nuclear capabilities for “peaceful purposes”.

What a sad “leader” we have.