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If the last election in Iran had been remotely fair, the Iranian people would have already rejected extremism.

Posted by keshmeshi | December 18, 2006 12:06 PM
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extremism is never a virtue, and sadly Iraq may give the extremists in Iran an out.

Posted by Will in Seattle | December 18, 2006 12:07 PM
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How very "backwards".

Posted by art | December 18, 2006 12:56 PM
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You are exactly correct Charles.

Posted by M | December 18, 2006 1:12 PM
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How typically American (and arrogant) to always reach to capture the position of “cause” of all “results” as American. Its seems equally reasonable to say that the Bush administration would not have been possible without the likes of Ahmadinejad and his form of extremism and that it was the islamofascist worlds intolerance of infidels that pushed the Bush administration (and the majority of the rest of the USA, remember Bush was reelected) to the far right in response.

Posted by you_gotta_be_kidding_me | December 18, 2006 1:32 PM
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Charles, marry me.

Posted by Grant Cogswell | December 18, 2006 2:11 PM
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Of course "islamofascist" is an entirely bollocks term of American origin.

Posted by Art | December 18, 2006 2:41 PM
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"Bush made Bush made Ahmadinejad possible"
maybe.... and maybe it was and will continue to be the other way around. Most Americans consider themselves to be Christians and are slowly finding out the truth about religious freedom and (lack of) respect for nonmuslims in the Islamic world. Jews, women and gays will be likely to tolerate
"Islamaphobics" if it means standing up the people like Ahmadinejad.
And the whole world has seen that the west is bullied into supressing our freedoms by Muslims (ie the Mohammad cartoon rage and Pope riots) while Muslims proudly and with no aplogy execute people for being Christians and encourage antisemitism. There is nothing that causes Islamaphobia more that Islamic political,media and religious leaders. And with Islamaphobia there is more tolerence for the relious right in this country.

Posted by jane doe | December 18, 2006 6:17 PM
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And just as American voters are ignored, so will the voters of Iran be ignored.

American troop levels increasing in Iraq,
preparations for invasion of Iran continue. Iranian religious leaders have a choke hold on Iranian civil society.

The machine grinds on. Who cares about the vote? It makes no difference.

The system is broken.

Posted by old timer | December 19, 2006 8:31 AM

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