Roger L. Simon: The Charge of the Light Basij

This BBC article quoting world leaders on the Iranian Election is (kind of) interesting. Worth noting are the words of that great "democrat" Vladimir Putin:

"I am convinced that your election, which came as a result of the Iranian people's will, will guarantee continuity in the development of partnership between our countries."

Neither the primaries nor the recent round of elections were free, and were contests between extremists. The candidates were pre-determined, as were the results...

The conclusion is that the dangerous combination of extremists, non-conventional weapons and isolation from the West will continue, and will generate a great deal of problems for the free world.

Translation: Look out below. (well, maybe not... but a lot of people might be relieved if they did)

In any case, this man seems to be auditioning hard for the role of Chief of the Basij (Khomeini's religious police).

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I've had my fill about the poor party girl missing on Aruba and I'm can empathize with her parenst, but wall to wall coverage by FOXNEWS is driving me up the wall. There is a story breaking on the Iranian election that has great implication for all of us in the GWOT.

I've seen on your news reports and some of your news shows that you are falling into the same trap the MSM has on this critical election in Iran.

This election is a sham and fraud. The Mad Mullahs of Iran are cooking the books and the MSM is taking their false resorts hook, line, and sinker.

The MSM is lazy in their reporting and their reports are filing reports from their hotel rooms from the Regimes press releases. Yes, I know it's difficult to get the "real" story on the ground because of the media babysitters this regime assigns to the world media.

I expect more of FOXNEWS if you truly wish to be fair and balanced. The straight information is not hard to come by in the Blogos. The true foreign correspondence are the brave men and women blogging from inside Iran to get the truth out who literally risk life and limb to do so.

At the least you can do is track this information and report it when you can with a caveat about the sources or report straight up when you can corroborate what they are saying.

Several sites are reposting photos (JPEGS) from the street that the polling places are deserted. The Iran people are sending a message to the free world by their non participation in this sham election.

The Iranian people will effect their own regime change if they know the have the support of the Am people and the free world in their struggle for freedom.

This is the message that President Bush and Secretary Rice are trying to bring to the Iranian people but the MSM is obsessed with GITMO and other things to bash this administration.

Follow the threads at these links. Our best option is if the Iranian people send the armed Pakistani thugs packing and overthrow this regime. The consequences of the Iranian regime going nuclear are unimaginable. This administration I don't believe will blink for one minute if it becomes necessary to have a direct confrontation. The Iranian people do love American but they are a very proud and nationalistic people and the consequences of a direct assault would not be good for all involved.

At least you can do is to carry the message of the Iranian people and report objectively to the Am people and don't fall for the propaganda of the Iranian regime.

FYI the turnout out in the first election was on 7% which is way short of what the regime has been reporting.

FOXNEWS impress me that you will not follow the rest of the crowd and report objectively to the Am people on this developing story.

Here's a tidbit about the Ahmadinejad I hadn't heard before (and maybe Fox could report):

Ron, you are onto one of the Kennedy-wing effects. Americans are being driven back into their navels by this absolutely insane campaign to redo the Agony of the Seventies. The agony we were friggin' lucky to survive in recognizable form the first time. No guarantees on this sort of stuff--yet we act as though there are. as if for sure somebody will come along and fix everything at the last moment. So, what the hell, go ahead, Senator, drive us across the bridge again.

Perhaps we could make Tom Cruise ambassador to Iran. Since their elections were a joke, so should our ambassador. Tom Cruise chewing the fat with Khameni and Ahmadinejad, maybe the MSM would cover that.

Can Scientology replace Islam? Maybe we should send Cruise to speak where he has some potential of doing good. On second thought, the thought of the Scientological State of Iran is... is... is weird as hell.

Wish I had a better feel as to what Iran was like these days. It isn't inaccessable, after all: my coworker visited his dad there last fall. It should be possible to get better reporting and impressions than we do. A visit by someone like Michael Yon would be swell.

I don't think we have diplomatic relations with Iran. If memory serves, those ayatollah fellows repaid Carter's sellout of the shah by taking our embassy. Now, if we had a President rather than a purveyor of peanuts, that's wahats known as casus belli and B-52's should have appeared like swarms of locusts in the skies of Teheran. But Peanut has always had the cowardice of his convictions so we had to hire Sir Ronald to straighten things out.

Anyway, the casus belli has never been rectified and I vote for a "better late than never" strategy involving the B-52's. And B-2's. And B-1's. And anything with wings that we can launch and recover. And Tom Cruise riding a Cruise ala Slim Pickens.

There are 350 idenfiable targets that need to be visited until they are no longer identifiable. When that's done maybe the Iranian "resistance" will figure out how to do the rest.

What if we resume diplomatic relations with Iran. Send Cruise as our Ambassador with assistants Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin, Al Franken, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, et al.?.........

That's sure worth considering. Maybe we should send an exploratory bi-partisan group including those you mention plus certain Republicans selected by Mitch McConnell. That way we retain the casus belli.

Putin is not exactly an authority on democracy and I would say that the fact the Iranian people could chose between dictator and super dictator is pretty damn sad.

But the American people are not in any mood for another war. I know it is easy for me to say but the people of Iran need to do more than boycott an election.

Wasn't the man who lost [the "moderate"] the one who said that someday they would nuke Israel off the face of the earth?

Maybe this will work out for the best after all, inasmuch as the new Iranian President will be more of a nutcase Islamofascist than the previous one. Thus those in the US or Israel who think we should bomb Iranian nuclear facilites forthwith (instead of continuing the endless negotation) will have a better case to make. And maybe after the bombings take place, the condemnations of the EU, etc. will be less severe given the nature of the Iranian regime.

I think Bush should have gone on TV as soon as he was sure 9/11 was the work of Islamic terrorists and demand that countries harboring them deliver them up to U.S. authorities by noon of the next day, and that includes France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries, Turkey. In fact. Wherever they might have been found.

The capitals of those countries not complying to be visited by missiles and bombers at precisely high noon. The cycle to be repeated every 24 hours until the entire terror network was either dead or in U.S. custody. Sorry about the civilian casualties, but better their civilians than ours.

The best thing for our economy is the intransigence of OPEC members who are joining the left's campaign to "get Bush" and who continue to think we will capitulate to blackmail and strong armed tactics because they are too foolish to see that we are the ones with options, not they.

For the first time in decades we are talking about nuclear power. The cheapest, cleanest and most efficient energy source. If there were a green light to build nuclear plants, modern technology would make them cleaner and safer and we would be truly insulated from vagaries of 12th century ignoramuses and their cheerleaders among the European elite.

The oil we need for other than energy, we can easily access from existing sources plus the new ANWAR fields.

June 25, 2005: The Charge of the Light Basij

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