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Hope and Change in Iran

Barack-A-Sorros Wrote: Jun 26, 2009 5:15 AM

Going back to Woodrow Wilson, Liberals have a terrible foriegn policy success rate.

Typically, Moderate and Conservative Presidents have to come in and midigate or repair the damage Liberals have done.

A blatantly fraudulent election may have been the spark that ignited Iran's current rebellion but don't be misled: Iran has never had free and fair elections.

I was in Iran 30 years ago for the first elections held under the gaze of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the dourly militant leader of Iran's Islamist revolution. I was a young and inexperienced foreign correspondent unconvinced by older and more experienced foreign correspondents that Khomeini and his followers intended to transform Iran into a freer and more just society, rather than one that would be brutally oppressive at home and threatening abroad.