Posted on 12/28/2009 6:01:32 PM PST by Kaslin
Mideast: As the death of a dissident cleric spawns renewed protests, Sen. John Kerry seeks to make nice with the oppressors of those who truly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. How about regime change, Senator?
The death toll from the brutal suppression of the latest round of Iranian protests against their government has reached double digits. We wonder if the senator still wants to be the highest U.S. official to visit Tehran since U.S. hostages were held for 444 days by the very same regime.
To Kerry and this administration, the problem is one of mistrust and misunderstanding. Come, let us reason together, they say. Unclench your fist and we will shake your hand. Why we would want to shake the hand of the man who would exterminate Israel to usher in the age of the 12th Imam is beyond us.
Meantime, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the graybeard thugs he serves, practice on the Iranian people. The latest protests were spawned by the recent death of dissident 87-year-old cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a critic of the ongoing oppression of the Iranian people.
At one time Montazeri was the designated successor to Ayatollah Khomeini, but when the theocracy turned to a thugocracy, he broke with the revolution. When Tehran celebrated the 30th anniversary of the taking of the U.S. Embassy, Montazeri said: "At the time, I supported it, but not today. It was a mistake."
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Sen John Kerry=POS.
As the death of a dissident cleric spawns renewed protests, Sen. John Kerry seeks to make nice with the oppressors of those who truly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. How about regime change, Senator? ...To Kerry and this administration, the problem is one of mistrust and misunderstanding... Meantime, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the graybeard thugs he serves, practice on the Iranian people. The latest protests were spawned by the recent death of dissident 87-year-old cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a critic of the ongoing oppression of the Iranian people... When Tehran celebrated the 30th anniversary of the taking of the U.S. Embassy, Montazeri said: "At the time, I supported it, but not today. It was a mistake."
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