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  1. Neo,
    I do not have a twitter account, but I saw this posted on another web site:
    “If you are on TWITTER, please set your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut Iranians’ access to the internet down.”
    I don’t know if that works or not. I do know from my experience in the military that sifting through info— finding the gems—can be difficult because of too much info. I do not know if the Iranians have a way to figure out which is real and which is fake- but maybe it would slow them down….

  2. If funeral services or memorials are banned I believe it is incumbent upon the administration to address that in some way.

    But it won’t happen.

    BTW did anyone else see the press conference today? Not only did Obama get testy on several occasions when he was asked a question he didn’t like, but he continues to phrase things in (what I would call) an odd way for a US President. For instance when referring to the law just signed regarding the FDA and tobacco he said “MY law” and he said “WE signed it” . I think this guy really does see himself as some kind of “royalty” and I believe this kind of language “speaks” volumes but apparently it just flies by too many.

  3. dane: see my post above.

    I agree—to me Obama’s language is clear evidence of a huge ego even for presidents. But supporters don’t seem to hear that at all. It’s odd, all right.

  4. Neo,

    I am even more amazed that his supporters are now saying it was his speech in Cairo that was the spark that ignited the events now taking place in Iran. Odd, if that were true, that he would not be one-hundred percent behind the protesters – especially since those same supporters defend his not taking a stronger stance because of previous administrations supposedly inciting populations then not following through. I see a disconnect that once again they do not see.

    I also find it odd that they say the Cairo speech was the spark when in it (though speaking of women’s rights) he defended the burka which is not a religious thing at all rather a symbol of the subjugation. I continue to be more confused.

    And as an aside does that now mean that the administration will now be issuing edicts that my state of Florida must now issue a driver’s license to a woman who refuses to have her picture taken with her face showing.

  5. compared Neda to al-Durah ……

    Why you go far form that, let just take US invasion/occupation of Iraq that cased the death of ten of thousands if not more for no real reasons they are just innocent but yab they are in Wrong Place in Wrong time

  6. jon baker,
    ( of course I not supported of any actions like this)

    To refresh your memory US did and doing same thing in Iraq for last six years.

    So why it’s not right for Iran to do so but for US its OK ?

  7. Sam,

    “twitter” is a tool. It is not inherently good or bad. The question is to what purpose is it being used? To oppress– or to brake chains of oppression?

  8. Sad to say, the only way a big chunk of the Democratic Party gets onboard with the Iranian opposition is if a potential win can be credited to The One. As an American, I can’t help but think that’s a cheap price for the right thing.

  9. For all the talk of Mousavi as a “reformer,” here is an article from the solid, very reliable CQ that argues that he was the architect of the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed 241 U.S. marines, and the one in Naples that killed 5 U.S. navy personnel, including the first woman (http://tinyurl.com/mka4lp).

  10. sam, the difference is that the vast majority of deaths in Iraq came from Iraqis killing other Iraqis. The policy and purpose behind U.S. military actions was to stop the killing by defeating the insurrection. To the extent that innocent civilians were killed in the war zone, that is a tragedy and regrettable; but I know of no evidence that it was the policy of the Iraqi Government or Coalition forces to kill unarmed civilians in order to discourage political protest or free speech.

    Surely all of this is obvious.

  11. The supporters don’t pick up on Omama’s ego because they cannot see past their own.

  12. journalism died after common sense was reported dead which was told after god was said to be dead, recently burger king and quiznos has insured that good taste and propriety jumped off a cliff together. 🙂

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