Bill Kristol, Stephen Hayes, Rep Pence, Senator Chambliss were some of the very people calling American protesters in the streets after the Bush Presidential selection in 2000 radicals and whiners yet have been endlessly celebrating the protesters in the streets of Iran. Hmmm celebrate Iranian protesters dismiss and demonize protesters in the states. No hypocrisy there…right
Read what a few of these hypocrites have to say about the Iranian protesters
"he events of the past week in Iran, following the June 12 presidential election there, have been remarkable and hopeful. It’s been a moment when one would like a president of the United States–who has, in such moments, a supporting but not an inconsequential role–to rise to the occasion. Barack Obama hasn’t. We are therefore put in the position of hoping that the words of an American president are being mostly ignored, that his weakness won’t matter, and that the forces of reform or revolution will be able to prevail–as they may–with the support of many in America, if not the president.
The day after the election, as hundreds of thousands of Iranians gathered in the streets to protest election fraud, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration was "monitoring" the situation. The next day, Sunday, as the extent of the fraud became clear to anyone willing to see it, Vice President Joe Biden said that while there were "doubts" about the outcome, "I don’t think we’re in a position to say" that the election wasn’t free and fair. Obama played golf.
On Monday, Obama finally had something to say: "I think it would be wrong for me to be silent about what we’ve seen on the television over the last few days." He said he was "deeply troubled" by the violence but noted, "We respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran." Eight people were killed that day.
On Tuesday, Obama acknowledged
the "amazing ferment" inside Iran. But, as the forces of change rallied behind Mir-Hussein Mousavi, and as Mousavi, heretofore a cautious apparatchik, was carried along Yeltsin-like to a position of virtual opposition to the regime, Obama seemed to try to take the steam out of the protest, declaring, "The difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi in terms of their actual policies may not be as great as has been advertised." Meanwhile Gibbs said that while Obama "deplored the violence"–disembodied violence, whose perpetrators went unnamed–he was nonetheless encouraged by the "vigorous debate inside of Iran by Iranians."
#### Guess you have to move to Iran and become an Iranian protester to get any coverage by the MSM in the states





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Political protests in the US aren’t new and they aren’t put down with guns. When they are, they get plenty of air time.
From what I have read the Iranian protesters did not go through the steps to make their protest legal or get permits for the protes as United for Peace and Justice and other groups do in D.C. and we even have to do here in our small town before we can take to the streets, block traffic, stop business as usual.
If you do not get permits in D.C. they will certainly come out on the streets with guns to restore order.
Also Bill Kristol and the rest of the neo-con warmongers have displayed their agenda in Iran for a very long time. Bill Kristol is a compulsive liar
And when was the last time that the DC police used non-uniformed police to beat, shoot, and kill protesters without permits? And did that series of events get on the news?
If people did not get permits for all of their protest…who knows if the crowd became a real threat. I have no doubt the guns would come out
Maybe you should ease up on the “who knows” in defense of the Iranian government. I know you believe in justice and this government ain’t the good guys.