The tropics look calm enough, so I should be here when you get back.
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]]>Anyway, Brian… Thankfully I’ll be busy moving to a sane part of the World over the next couple of days and won’t be online for a while (and in all honesty, thankfully!) So I get to deal with the real World for awhile. You can deal with the ignorant moron. 😉 Good luck! 🙂
Cheers m8! tty asap.
]]>I would have been suspicious if Mousavi had gotten to the 70% range that Katami enjoyed in his two wins because Mousavi doesn’t have the personal following that Katami enjoyed.
A low fifties win might have been possible, but not 63% in the current economic situation in Iran. It was just fraud, it wasn’t even a clever fraud. Most people can appreciate a clever criminal, someone with a bit of flash, but the clerics of Iran will never be in Sinbad’s league.
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]]>I agree with you Bryan, what Khamenei and the ruling clique have done is rig the eltion in an inept manner. They could have rigged the result for a smaller victory (say 52/44/2/2 or something like that) and that would have been credible if unpopular. I’m not sure what is going to happen and my friends in Iran are not sure either but things could well get very ugly.
.-= ´s last blog ..Papers indicates Shell’s complicity in Niger Delta protest crackdown =-.
I don’t see how we can talk to the Iranian government now, it has lost its validity with this charade.
Numerian noted that in a lot places Ahmadinejad won by exactly and even 1000 or 5000 votes. They produced vote totals faster than a House rollcall with electronic voting. I’ve been at some vote counts and have a good idea of the effort and time required for dealing with paper ballots, and you just can’t do it as quickly as happened in Iran.
]]>Question is, now what? We sure as hell can’t do anything here in America, we lost any claim to moral authority when we invaded Iraq under false pretenses then committed the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay and the US saying *anything* about the election would turn the population around under the rhubric of “the ayatollahs are evil, but they’re *our* evil.” And I frankly haven’t seen that the Revolutionary Guards has gotten as lax and corrupt as SAVIK got during the end, they show no signs of going easy on anybody who protests that that ayatollahs stole the election. So now what? Nothing good for the Iranian people, or for the region, or for the world for that matter, I suspect :-(.
– Badtux the Pessimistic Penguin
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