The President gets clear about Iran
The WSJ has some quotes from the President on Iran:
The President yesterday denounced the “extent of the fraud” and the “shocking” and “brutal” response of the Iranian regime to public demonstrations in Tehran these past four days. “These elections are an atrocity,” he said. “If Ahmadinejad had made such progress since the last elections, if he won two-thirds of the vote, why such violence?” The statement named the regime as the cause of the outrage in Iran and, without meddling or picking favorites, stood up for Iranian democracy.
Great stuff! Taranto adds: “Speaking very broadly, there are two possible outcomes in Iran now. The regime may succeed in crushing the opposition, enhancing its own power at the expense of whatever pretense of legitimacy it might have had a week ago. Or it may fail to do so and be weakened or overthrown. The free world has every interest in encouraging the latter outcome.” Indeed it does.
For an opposing viewpoint, read this.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Sadly, the President of [shudder] France, was the one who had the balls to call it what it is, not our president. Shame.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
When I read that I figured it was probably Sarko who was being quoted. Pity we don’t have a president of our own who is equally forthright.
June 19th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Pity we don’t have a president. How long can we get by with a community activist with a teleprompter?