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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Obama on Iran

Prez speaks up, but is it enough?

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  • Posted By: Debunked! @ 06/22/2009 12:51:18 PM

    I can understand why Obama is hesitant to speak up. Quite honestly, if I were him I would be too! The Iranian people began protesting because they smelled fraud with the election and now it appears that they are protesting for justice and FREEDOM!!

    The Iranian protesters can very well and probably are fueling many Americans to defiantly protest. Let's face it, MANY Americans feel that the 2008 primaries and electiion was stolen. The Democrats stole the primaries from Hill and up to election night, there were several cases of ACORN fraud but everything was swept under the rug! There is...Continue Reading

  • Posted By: mindzeye @ 06/22/2009 4:04:52 AM

    It's understandable that Pres. Obama take a relatively moderate way to deal with Iranian crisis. Actually, US has long time been criticized as showing too much interference on other countries issues, esp since Iraqi War, for many people think Iraqi war is a great failure. However, dissapporoval voices should not and could not make US mute on IRAN crisis, at least give the Iranian young people ,most of them are students, give them some support, even some mouth supports counts a great deal. It's horrific to see NEDA dying on the streetContinue Reading

  • Posted By: Vigilance @ 06/22/2009 2:42:01 AM

    In some ways, I wish Moussavi would be asked if he wants official recognition from other nations, including the United States - it would certainly frame the question in clearer terms.

    The problem is, any intervention or even recognition by the U.S. - given our recent history in Iraq as well as our longstanding history in interfering with Iranian government in the 1948 coup and by supporting the Shah - could provoke longstanding and simmering tensions to boil, and boil over, and hurt a lot of innocents in Iran. It may be one of those things where - much as it hurts and much as we wish we could...Continue Reading

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