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To: Thomas M. who wrote (490053)	6/23/2009 2:45:04 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574096

I really don't get your attitude. I can see that. My attitude is that you have you facts totally wrong. Your attitude is that a poll conducted by Emmy-award-winning polling company "ain't no poll". globalresearch.ca; First of all, this article was not included in the stuff you posted......if it was, I did not see it and I went over those links a couple of times. Secondly, I am amazed that you are so taken with this guy when he presents so few facts to back up his position. All he has done mostly is interpret the vote based upon what he sees as class distinctions in Iran and for whom he thinks those classes would vote. Thirdly, the professor does not even bother to discuss that over 50 cities and two provinces showed over 100% turnout. Certainly, an unusual circumstance in the US. Even if that's fairly normal in Iran, you would think he would at least bring into the discussion. I posted a thorough evisceration of that CSM article, and you responded with hostility. Maybe that's because you have a way of presenting material as if its a fait accompli and not subject to discussion or disagreement. I don't agree with you that there was "thorough evisceration" of the CSM article. Sorry. And again, I ask......why are you so anxious to support Ahmadinejad?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (490053)	6/23/2009 11:30:28 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574096

I recognize this quote is from another CSM article and may be questionable in terms of its legitimacy but assuming what they say is true about the current supreme leader is this the kind of gov't the US should favor? Just curious as to what you think. Adding word 'absolute' to his powers "Indeed, after Khamenei rose to Iran's most important position in 1989, he went further than Khomenei had, leading a successful effort to have the role of the faqih, or jurisprudent, defined more specifically in the Constitution with the insertion of the word "absolute" as in the "absolute rule of the jurisprudent." When his younger brother Hadi Khamenei, a reformist cleric who favors more oversight and checks on the power of the supreme leader, called for this in a sermon in 1999, he was savagely beaten by basiji militia loyal to the ayatollah – the same group that has been used to attack protesters in recent days. "I think, in some respects, what Khamenei has done in the past 10 years has been to amass even more authority institutionally than his predecessor ever had," says Suzanne Maloney, an Iran scholar at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "He clearly sees the revolution itself as under threat, and Iran has already begun to deliver with the violence over the weekend. I think they're in a good position to repress, and I don't think Khamenei will blink."" csmonitor.com