re: #20 zombie

Obama could change the course of history if he came out right now and vigorously rejected the fraudulent election and threw his support behind the opposition/protesters. That would be the spark they need to ignite the counter-revolution — the knowledge that the U.S. is behind them.

And when the new regime comes in, they likely will abandon their nuclear ambitions — and the world will take a big step toward peace and stability.

But no. Obama is waffling and hesitating, voting “present” in the Iranian election. And his hesitation is going to have dire conseqeunces.

You mean like the way the US was behind them when George Herbert Walker Bush & Cie. called on the Marsh Arabs in the south of Iraq and the Kurds in the north to rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein after Gulf War I? And the way we then bravely sat back and moaned like bitches about liberty and freedom and our support is with you while those two groups and many others were systematically hunted down and slaughtered? And the best we could offer them, after it was too late, was no-fly zones?

That the kind of support you mean?

I bet the mullahs are just drooling for that to happen.