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To: Thomas M. who wrote (488712)	6/17/2009 4:29:41 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1573824

Given the track record of foreign journalists, Iran has good justification for banning them. Our resident antisemitic putz speaks!

To: Thomas M. who wrote (488712)	6/19/2009 12:45:57 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573824

Given that most foreign journalists are reporting falsehoods with the goal of overthrowing the Iranian government, Iran has good justification for banning them. Christian Science Monitor's False Reporting moonofalabama.org And the CSM has traditionally been one of the least biased sources on the Middle East. CNN is much worse. They are giving blanket coverage to this Mousavi sham. To recap: 1. Ahmadinejad spent 4 years campaigning, Mousavi entered the campaign at the last minute True. Ahmadinejad has been in office for 4 years and the incumbant is always seen as campaigning informally. Mousavi began campaiging a month ago. 2. Ahmadinejad catered to the masses, Mousavi catered to the elite True. Ahmadinejad's base is primarily the rural and urban poor. Mousavi appeals more to the middle and upper classes who are more educated and the young. 3. Unsurpringly, the polls indicated Ahmadinejad would win 2-1, well over 60% of the vote True. Some polls did show those numbers. Let's face it the polls aren't exactly steeped in integrity in Iran. 4. Mousavi declared himself the winner with 80% of the votes before the count even began. True. The nite of the election someone called from the Election office, saying that he was ahead and was projected to win. That didn't make a lot of sense given how early it was in the vote count, but I think for political and gamemanship reasons he decided to announce he won. No one is saying that Mousavi is not capable of games. I think the whole system in Iran wreaks of game playing and corruption. 5. After about 20% of the votes had been counted, the Ayatollah said Ahmadinejad was way ahead and the likely winner Something like that. 6. Ahmadinejad won 62% of the votes, the same as the 2005 election and slightly less than the polls predicted. True. That's by how much the Iranian people were told he won. Whether it was true or not is subject to dispute. I don't know how he did in 2005. Thomas, I don't know why you would believe the 'moon of crap' website over the Christ. Science Monitor, one of the best and most sincere publications in the country, but I have to say that you seem to have trouble with any authority that has some kind of legitimacy. Its always good to have a healthy degree of skepticism but you manage to take it to the nth degree....which is not healthy.