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Iran Wants TO Send Observers To US Elections.
The Australian ^
| 8/19/04
| AFP
Posted on 10/19/2004 11:00:15 AM PDT by Dallas59
TEHRAN: Iran's hardline Basij militia has written to UN secretary general Kofi Annan to ask if the Islamic republic can send observers to the US presidential election in November, a government newspaper said on Monday.
"By this symbolic request, we want to ridicule the so-called democratic slogans of the American leaders," a Basij official, Said Toutunshian, told the Iran newspaper.
"We want to say to the whole world that the presence of observers from the Islamic republic of Iran, the most democratic regime in the world, is necessary to guarantee the smooth running of the American elections."
The Basij is a volunteer army attached to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the Islamic republic's ideological army.
Predominantly Western groups frequently send observers to pass judgment on the "democratic status" of elections in other countries.
On Monday, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said in a statement that weekend legislative elections in Belarus fell "significantly short" of democratic standards
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: election; iran; observers
Better not step one foot in this country.
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:00:15 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
Did a search, but didn't see anything. From Little Green Footballs...
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:00:57 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
("A bad peace is even worse than war" -Taticus)
To: Dallas59
"We want to say to the whole world that the presence of observers from the Islamic republic of Iran, the most democratic regime in the world, is necessary to guarantee the smooth running of the American elections."Is this dork for real?
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:01:26 AM PDT
by
brewcrew
To: brewcrew
Yea...send him over to a polling station in NE Texas...Do they allow posting from prison?
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:02:42 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
("A bad peace is even worse than war" -Taticus)
To: Dallas59
Send them to my place. I need some practice. What is the legal stack height on Iranians?
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:03:20 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Ignorance, bigotry, envy, and gluttony are floor joists in the democratic platform.)
To: brewcrew
Actually, Kerry and Carter BOTH agree with him.
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:04:07 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.)
To: Diogenesis
Actually, Kerry and Carter BOTH agree with him. ...and that's what scares me even more!
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:11:16 AM PDT
by
brewcrew
To: Dallas59
Let them watch the election on CNN.
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:11:26 AM PDT
by
Lobbyist
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:14:40 AM PDT
by
backinthefold
(I just got my right-wing agenda, I have 12 credits, anyone want to join a study group?)
To: Dallas59
I wouldn't dismiss this so quickly. It might not be such a bad idea to arrange an exchange program with Iran for vote observers. They should send a delegation immediately...and we could start training the 82nd Airborne for their own "observer" duties in Iran.
To: Dallas59
Let'em. We will get the local Hooters and Strip Club ladies to come vote in their non-Burka clothing. See what those weenies would do then?
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:16:38 AM PDT
by
jmq
To: Dallas59
I say let them come. Then let's buy them a day at Disney World. Then they can go back to Tehran and look around and say, "How do all those people come to vote freely and have places like Disney World and we have nothing?"
The more people we expose to freedom and liberty, the more minds we will change about the U.S.
To: Dallas59
YES! Please send Osama, Zarqawi, Ayman Jawahiri, and
Hamas leaders....we will have a great welcome for them
at the airport.
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:29:20 AM PDT
by
gwbiny2k
To: Dallas59
Iran Wants TO Send Observers To US Elections. One can't blame these guys for wanting to learn election fraud from American Democrats, they're the best in their field.
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posted on
10/19/2004 11:52:32 AM PDT
by
RJL
To: jmq
"Let'em. We will get the local Hooters and Strip Club ladies to come vote in their non-Burka clothing. See what those weenies would do then?"
The 9-11 hijackers went to strip clubs all the time. Their religion is more of a, 'do as I say, not as I do', sort of thing. Islamic men are sadistic, misogynistic, hypocrites who hate women and anyone who isn't Muslim.
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posted on
10/19/2004 1:33:03 PM PDT
by
monday
To: backinthefold
To: Dallas59
That's funny, I want to send large bombs to Iran.
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posted on
11/01/2004 9:16:05 PM PST
by
Porterville
(If you see a stinkin' commie in the snow covered hill, a landslide will take it down)
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