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To: Brumar89 who wrote (11383)	7/17/2009 8:34:42 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

No, I think the data was pointing to an Ahmadenijad win despite their rigging the elections. The ruling click in IRan made a mistake. He would have won anyway without the rigging. However, in rigging the elections, they turned the people against them. Stupid. So now the facade has crumbled. The people of Iran have watched as the Great Satan elected a man with the middle name of Hussain who has relatives in Africa and a Muslim father. All the while, they have no real choice who their elected leaders are. The very fact that Obama was elected in this country destroys the illusion of freedom the Iranians and other Muslims thought they had. And that pisses them off. Now they have no real power to effect change unless they get the military behind them, but the facade is gone and now those ruling clerics are going to be spending more time controlling their own population instead of bothering us. That's a good thing for us. Gives us yet another lever against them. Also, to answer your other question, if Obama accomplishes nothing during his term, then yes, he'll continue the cycle of skating along the bottom where Bush was wrt IRan.