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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:27 AM Original message |
Ahmadinejad won the elections without fraud (Washington Post op-ed) |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
1. I am SO glad I cancelled my subscription after they hired Michael Gerson. nt |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Are they wrong about the Iranian election then? /nt |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:38 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I don't know. But they're imprudent to make such a carved in granite judgment so soon. nt |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:36 AM Response to Reply #2 |
28. If this is true, I think so. |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. "one close friend of mine" |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
41. Juan Cole |
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flpoljunkie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:13 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Andrew Sullivan on this polling: Checking Fred Hiatt |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. Forget reading the OP just read this reply |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:21 PM Response to Reply #22 |
49. Wow...extremely interesting. n/t |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
3. Correct me if I am wrong please, but isn't New America Foundation a new morph of PNAC? nt |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:53 AM Response to Reply #3 |
14. I've never heard that NAF is a new morph of PNAC |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:11 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. No link, just a memory which could be muddled. Unfortunate choice of name if not. |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:20 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. "President of Terror Free Tomorrow" |
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Perky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 12:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
31. WHy would the NEOCons want to prop up this guy by sayin g that he legitimately won? |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 01:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Because like Africa, the one thing the neocons DON'T want in the middle east |
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Perky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 01:44 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Nonsense |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 02:30 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Because Ahmadinijad is a convenient Emmanuel Goldstein |
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Perky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 07:22 PM Response to Reply #34 |
52. Again that makes little sense |
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Egnever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 09:08 PM Response to Reply #52 |
59. They dont want war? |
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Perky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 09:33 AM Response to Reply #59 |
62. They want Regime Change more than War.... War is just one way to get what they want |
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Butch350 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 09:30 PM Response to Reply #31 |
61. They want the guy in who'll help boost american defense contracts. |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:15 PM Response to Reply #31 |
64. to keep Iran in the "axis" and to rub crap in Obama's face. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:10 PM Response to Reply #3 |
39. That wants a war with Iran |
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raincity_calling (143 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
42. NAF formed 1999 - FPI is the new PNAC |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:41 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Thanks! I knew I'd read they'd regrouped somewhere. |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
4. Sure he did. |
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Thrill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
5. So they did their poll before the National Televised debate? |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
6. first video of the rally... |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
8. This smells |
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Schema Thing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:41 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Bingo |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
10. YEAH,OK |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
11. So why, exactly, do RW think tanks want Ahmadinejad to be the president |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:49 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. see here |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:26 AM Response to Reply #11 |
25. First, they need a perpetual state of fear and near-war. 2nd, they want Obama to fail |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
12. What use is any poll conducted weeks before an election? n/t |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
15. People will believe the "polls" that confirm their already existing belief |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:20 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. I figure it's possible Ahmadinejad won by 65%, but the speed at which the vote was counted |
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zulchzulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
16. Let's see verifiable evidence... n/t |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
17. then shouldn't his 65% "legitimate supporters" be filling the streets? |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:14 PM Response to Reply #17 |
40. BINGO! Score a big one for LOGIC. |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 08:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
55. Not necessarily. We Democrats didn't fill the streets in 2000 |
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Aloha Spirit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. They came pretty close to that today in Tehran. |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 09:18 PM Response to Reply #55 |
60. So American apathy "proves" the legitimacy of Iran's stolen election!? |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
18. As so did bu$h in two elections. |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
19. Like Mitt Romney, the WP is hoping for a win for the terrorists |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
20. If you read the actual article it says they polled "Three Weeks Before the Election" |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
26. Need I even suggest the impossibility of an unbiased poll in an |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
27. Polled May 11-20... Yawn. |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
35. Yes, WAPO.... |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
36. The Neo-Cons have a vested interest in Ahmadi-nejad remaining in power n/t |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 07:26 PM Response to Reply #36 |
53. I'm sure World Peace doesn't interest |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
37. Three week old poll is meaningless. Over 50% undecideds. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
38. If polling in Azeri showed Mousavi ahead by 2 to 1 and election results opposite of that |
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WonderGrunion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
43. The Ayatollah of Iran has some doubts about that. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
45. Center/right newspaper defends the status quo. No one is surprised. nt |
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AlexanderProgressive (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:17 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. The same Washington Post endorsed Barack Obama for President |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-16-09 01:10 PM Response to Reply #47 |
63. The same one that runs Will, Broder, Krauthammer, Kristol, Mallaby, and has a Geithner and Summers |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
46. The incumbent President of Iran won fairly? Yeah sure. |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
48. The fact that Ahmadinejad "routed" his opponents in thier hometowns is enbough for me |
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invictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
50. It's funny how the neo-cons are Ahmadinejad's biggest supporters. |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
51. A month old poll for OUR presidential election would've shown a different outcome too! |
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Malikshah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
54. This is so frikking laughable-- is there a real link to this journalistic atrocity? |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
57. UK Telegraph: leaked election results show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came third |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-15-09 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
58. In the field from May 11 to May 20. |
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