[Peace-discuss] Re: Fraudulent votes

[C. G. Estabrook]

"Yes, I’m cheering on the Green Revolutionaries, because the foreign policy 
positions taken by Mousavi will be conducive to negotiations with the U.S. over 
the issue of nuclear weapons. I agree with the Leveretts that no matter who 
wins, we need to start those talks now, with no preconditions, and in the 
context of Iran’s right – under the Non-Proliferation Treaty – to develop the 
peaceful uses of nuclear power. I agree with McAdams that the U.S. government 
should stay out of Iran’s internal affairs. But that doesn’t mean I don’t care 
about the Iranian people – who are even now being slaughtered and beaten in the 
streets of their own cities. The regime they suffer under is kept in power by 
the threat of U.S. imperialism, which has encircled the country and is even now 
preparing to strike – and it’s precisely because I understand this, and oppose 
it with all my being, that my heart goes out to the Green Revolutionaries.

"No, I don’t want our president to declare his support, and I applaud Ron Paul 
for his lone vote in Congress against a grandstanding resolution endorsing the 
Mousavi movement. Our government should steer clear of this entirely..."


This is from a long response to the Leveretts,

	"Iran’s Green Revolution: Made in America? No way, no how"
	by Justin Raimondo, June 22, 2009

<http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/06/21/iran%E2%80%99s-green-revolution-made-in-america/>

C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> [The US media ('left' & 'right', as we laughably say) tonight 
> concentrate on demonstrations in Iran, about a possibly fraudulent vote, 
> and ignore the fraudulent vote in US House of Representatives -- 
> fraudulent, because the electorate installed this Congress (and this 
> President) to end the war.  And they're doing just the opposite.  In the 
> US, policy is insulated from politics.   Elsewhere -- perhaps even in 
> Iran -- politics have some effect. "No one knows what is to happen, and 
> who can tell anyone what the future holds?  The toil of fools wears them 
> out, for they do not even know the way to town.  Alas for you, O land, 
> when your king is a servant, and your princes feast in the morning!" 
> (Ecclesiastes 10:14b-16).  --CGE]
> 
>     Ahmadinejad Won. Get Over It.
>     By FLYNT LEVERETT AND HILLARY MANN LEVERETT
>     June 16, 2009 "Politico"
> 
> ... 
> 
> http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22846.htm
> 
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