Iranians Protest and are Murdered, Nobel Winner Obama is Silent
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Diplomacy Hossein Ali Montazeri hypocrites Liberals nobel Obama tehranPresident Obama is faced with a vexing problem in Iran – the more he says he is willing to talk with them the fewer results he gets from that regime. We know Iran is set on developing nuclear power (though they are sitting on a sea of oil) and we are pretty certain they are using their nuclear power development as cover for building an atomic weapon. We also know Iran has backed efforts inside Iraq to undermine American efforts in that country by, among other things, supplying explosives used in IEDs that kill American troops and Iraqi civilians. Wouldn’t President Obama have many of his problems solved if Iran’s leadership was replaced by a democratically-appointed leader? Wouldn’t the spread of freedom, economic and social liberty be a positive step for the people of Iran and for the world? The answer is: Absolutely!
Then it is surprising that the Obama White House has been so silent on the protests by Iranians and the jailing, torture, and murder by the government there of its own people. Just this past weekend we know that Iranaian security forces opened fire on protestors, killing four according to witnesses. We also know that many protestors have been rounded up and jailed with the Iranian government admitting that some of those people never made it out of prison alive.
Since the Iranian dissident cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri’s death a week ago there have been many more protests by the Iranian populace. Iran’s leadership has labelled these protests “illegal” and word has it that they have been authorized to open fire on anybody found “violating” the law.
The silence from Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama has been deafening. We have not heard any official statements, calls to open “dialogue” with the Iranian governmnet, or warnings to not violate the civil liberties of Iran’s population. Wouldn’t a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is also leader of the last Superpower on Earth be in a good position to try and “make peace” in such a volotile region of the world? Isn’t making the peace what a Nobel Peace Prize winner should be doing?
The fact is we are still hearing words from the Obama White House about all of the civil liberties that were “violated” under the Bush administration and how the current president is working to right those wrongs. But is dunking one or two terrorists’ in water really on the same par as shooting, murdering, arresting, and suppressing an entire population chafing against the yoke of oppressive leadership?
During Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech he talked about the vital role of “international institutions” in making and keeping the peace. Has Obama requested the United Nations to open an investigation into what is going on in Iran?
Considering the events going on inside one of the most dangerous countries in the world as far as nuclear proliferation and terrorism, shouldn’t our Nobel Prize Winning president at least come out and condemn what another nation is doing to its people?
Since President Obama has not yet done anything regarding Iran how hollow do his words look compared to that nice, shiny Nobel Peace Prize he has and the lovely speech he made?
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8:04 AM
quiet, please. you are talking during the president’s backswing.
2:40 PM
Obama has been supportive of the protesters and in his address today, he made that clear. He is not, however, foolish enough to outright slam Iran in a “Cowboy” method and jeopardize them. This is an internal struggle, long overdue in Iran. It is much better that it be settled from within, perhaps through these thousands of dissidents, than for us to take an iron fist to their nuclear-armed country.
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2:44 PM
Right… because Ronald Reagan never did or said anything regarding the Soviet Union and the Polish struggle for freedom including speaking in front of the Berlin War calling it evil. I’m sure the innocent Iranians being slaughtered by their government would view any assistance of them by the U.S. as interference.
And Iran is not “nuclear armed” yet but I’m sure they will be shortly.
3:05 PM
This is an Iranian struggle and they are doing as they should to determine their own course. The Cowboy has left the building.
.-= askcherlock´s last blog ..Obama: A Man For The Ages =-.
7:44 PM
I hope Obama has some time during his vacation to hit up a Hallmark store. Nowruz is just around the corner.
.-= burro´s last blog ..Easy, Trigger: How to Kill the National Debt =-.
7:46 PM
@ Cherlock.
The cowboy has left the building and created a vacuum, that has been filled by our great friend and ally, Vladimir Putin. If you think Obama is being so heroic by staying out of this, you reveal the assumption that you have that no one else will fill this vacuum. You are wrong.
.-= burro´s last blog ..Easy, Trigger: How to Kill the National Debt =-.
10:45 PM
Well said. Politics abhors a vacuum.
11:55 AM
This, probably more than all the other issues really angers me. The people of Iran are against the Mullahs and Obama can’t even lend a few words of support.
1:47 PM
The President has finally come around a bit on offering rhetorical support for protesters. And I did not use air quotes around rhetorical for a reason. The psychological value of words cannot be underestimated. Reagan’s rhetorical support for the freedom fighters of the Warsaw Pact nations and Russia itself was fuel for the fire. Opposition leaders like Sharansky and Welesa have gone to great lengths in acknowleging the support given by Reagan and Pope John Paul II.
That this President is naive enough to think that standing for Iran’s freedom fighters from the get-go might endanger potential nuclear negotiation talks with that lunatic over there, is troubling. How’s all that working out, anyway?