Why Iran's election result is suspect (maybe Liberals are waking up...nah!)

What is it about Democrats and their inability (or unwillingness) to confront despots? We are told that following the elections in Iran and the absurdly large "victory" of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, spontaneous protests have erupted throughout Iran and that they are now being suppressed violently by Iranian police and national security operatives.

In the past, our American Presidents have stood forth resolutely; speaking out in support of such efforts by oppressed peoples in their efforts to exercise the kinds of freedoms and liberties we take for granted over here. They would speak loudly of the right of every human to enjoy self-determination in choosing their leaders. They might cite our founding document, The Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

They would extol the wonders and virtues of free and open elections and the importance of democracy...the dangers lying in wait from despotic regimes such as the caliphate which rules Iran.

No more! Now we have dulcet tones of appeasement and compromise; of "understanding" and diplomacy coming from the "bully-pulpit" of President Barack Hussein Obama. He assures us that:

"it is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran's leaders will be; that we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran, which sometimes the United States can be a handy political football -- or discussions with the United States."

Really Mr. President, I doubt very seriously that the protestors in Iran are concerned with whether America is a "football," convenient of otherwise, for the government now oppressing them. The Iranian government is fully capable of excusing their undemocratic actions whether America provides them an excuse or not.

President Obama continues reassuring us:

"that the Iranian government says that they are going to look into irregularities that have taken place."

Ah, the despots are investigating the actions of despots. Well, "say no more squire."

We can all relax now, the Iranian caliphate is going to assure the world that their elections were fair and scandal free. We can all go back to the negotiating table secure in the knowledge that the despots are "resolving" any difficulties which may have arisen. I wonder how many people that means will be jailed or killed in resolving those election difficulties?

The Miami Herald has a very good summation of what has occurred in Iran:

Why Iran's election result is suspect

Unexplained police movements and exceptionally fast ballot counting are among reasons cited by those who cast doubt on Iran's presidential election.

BY WARREN P. STROBEL
McClatchy News Service

TEHRAN, Iran -- In American politics, it would be as if President George W. Bush won reelection over Sen. John Kerry in 2004 by taking Kerry's home state of Massachusetts, doing surprisingly well in liberal New York City and besting his 2000 vote totals by 40 percent.

What really happened in last Friday's Iranian presidential election, whose reported results have set off the deepest political crisis here in 30 years, may never be known.

However, unexplained police movements on the evening of the election, the exceptionally fast counting of handwritten ballots and some inexplicable election returns are among the reasons that opposition candidates and analysts cite when they say they suspect the vote was rigged.

Rigged? Hmmm...ya think?

Thirty-two have been killed so far by these "investigators." I can see why our President is so confident now as "the Iranian government says that they are going to look into irregularities." I mean, just because the foreign press is being expelled is no reason to be concerned...kind of like Tiananmen Square..."no worries." Just because they are now "prohibiting coverage of demonstrations and threatening legal action against Iranians who sent videos, news reports and photographs abroad" that's no reason to be concerned.

Obama needs to step up to the plate. We can support the protesters without going to war with Iran...the usual straw argument trumped up by appeasers like President Obama and Democrats in congress. We can take an extreme hard-line positions threatening tough economic sanctions against the Iranian government, we can propagandize the people of Iran extolling the wonders of a free and democratic society, and we can put an end once and for all to the nuclear aspirations of the Iranian regime rather than announcing to the world...as President Barack Hussein Obama has...that Iran "should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power." [Ummm...why is it good for the Iranians, but not good for America...hmmm?]

You defeat oppressive regimes by opposing them, not by appeasing them; history has proven that truism to any willing to learn (obviously not Democrats) for millennia.

The Iranian people need our support, unequivocal, loudly proclaimed, and resolute, not a weak-minded "hands-off" lecture about "playing nice."

God Bless the Iranian People in their struggles to be free from the yoke of oppression.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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