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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hardline mayor wins Iran runoff
2005-06-25
Posted by:Fred

#6  CNN lead on this was:

Victor wants 'modern Islamic' Iran

Can you spell 'oxymoron', CNN?
No? Then can you spell 'moron'?
Posted by: Ominetle Slugum5431   2005-06-25 20:57  

#5  beer_me-

Sadly, what's likely to happen is now a stream of reports from the EU and UN painting this guy as a 'closet moderate' who just needs time to establish himself before instituting the New Millenium.
And then the gavotte begins once more...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2005-06-25 08:30  

#4  Good, cause there isn't such a thing as a moderate mooselimb --- just circumspect ones.
Posted by: gromgoru   2005-06-25 06:16  

#3  And they count them well PD.
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom   2005-06-25 01:36  

#2  "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything."-Josef Stalin
Posted by: .com   2005-06-25 00:47  

#1  "Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- a hard-line conservative who has said Iran should embrace the principles of the 1979 Islamic Revolution -- was declared the winner of Iran's presidential election"

I suppose this is the best that could happen from a US perspective. It'll shut up a few of the whiners who keep saying we should negotiate with these loonies. At least for a little while.
Posted by: beer_me   2005-06-25 00:28  

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