Geller finally decides to write something and yes, it's still a non-story. She doesn't seem to understand, or worse, care that the story is about the people, what they want and how they are fighting for it despite best attempts to crush it. Instead her focus is Obama and his non-reaction to the non-story.
Far as I'm concerned a blog as big and widely read as Atlas should have been in this from the very start. Now she wants to maintain credibility. Now she wants to remain relevent. And now it is still not about the people but about her having another chance to shriek and rant about Obama.
"The President is naked at the feast, baby" she states.
The same could be said of her.
American Thinker:
It Has Always Been the Mullahs
By Pamela Geller
Iran is spinning out of control. As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared victory in the Iranian elections, riots broke out in Tehran. Huge crowds continue to protest Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's allegedly "rigged" victory. The government is trying to clamp down -- opposition candidates were placed under house arrest and then released -- but the unrest has not yet died down.
The CIA should be in Iran, helping the dissidents and reformers, and strategizing the removal of the country's nukes. Instead, Obama said that "it is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran's leaders will be," and that he was "deeply troubled by the violence" in Iran. (In contrast, he was "shocked and outraged" when late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered.) He said: "I think that the democratic process, free speech, the ability of people to peacefully dissent - all of those are universal values, and need to be respected." (I hope he will remember to respect them in the United States.) "And whenever I see violence perpetrated on people who are peacefully dissenting, uh, and whenever the American people see that, uh, I think they're rightfully troubled."
But what is he going to do, now that he feels "troubled"? Keep talking to the mullahs: "We will continue to pursue a tough direct dialogue between our two countries."
Many people in the United States seem to think that the uprising represents a major sign of hope in America's relationship with Iran. Both liberals and conservatives have been putting great stock in the outcome of these elections, and they haven't given up hope. They seem to think that if Mir Hossein Mousavi becomes President, things will be different.
Balderdash!
On the surface it is a hopeful sign. But the bottom line is that the Presidency is not the highest office in Iran. The mullahs are in charge. The election was essentially a show. Mousavi is as radical as Ahmadinejad, but smoother. Nothing would have changed. The Islamic Republic of Iran is going nuclear and annihilationist. That doesn't change.
I feel for those terrified souls who are marching through Tehran blindly, acting out in hope that it might effect any change. They are engaging in an exercise in futility. In reality, if they value their lives, they will flee Iran. We should have backed the reformers and the dissidents years ago when free men had a shot. But that was an opportunity missed -- and now we are here.
The allegations of fixed elections come after polls showed that half of the electorate wanted Ahmadinejad. But if half of the electorate wanted this bloodthirsty jihadi annihilationist, then what are we talking about? Hundreds of thousands of people turned out at rallies for Ahmadinejad before the election. The election was and is a ruse. As Christopher Booker wrote in The Telegraph, "The reality is that this was a completely sham battle between rival factions of a regime as ruthless as any in the world, in which the real power is exercised by the gang of hard-line mullahs round the ‘Supreme Leader', Ali Khamenei. In an election riddled with fraud (six million more ballot papers were printed than there are Iranians eligible to vote), all four regime-approved candidates had long been personally involved in the regime's murderous reign of terror."
Mousavi positioned himself as a reformer. It was shaping up to be a first-class piece of political theater: the "reformer" would win, and would con the UN and the President while finishing their extensive, comprehensive nuclear weapons program. Not one nuke, not two nukes. Many nukes. The world wants so desperately to be fooled. And so the "new" Iranian President would "engage" in a "new era," "new dialogue," and "diplomacy," to Obama's delight.
It was always a ruse. Mousavi is as establishment as they come. He was Prime Minister of Iran from 1981to 1989, and editor in chief of the official newspaper of the Islamic Republic party. Further, he's cut from the same Nazi cloth as Ahmadinejad: he was one of the founders of Hezb'allah, and also helped construct Iran's murderous intelligence services. Mousavi was a favorite of the Ayatollah Khomeini. He said he was running for President because he could "no longer stand to see... [Iran] moving toward dictatorship." Nothing about ending Iran's jihad against Israel, or against America.
Yeah, right, a reformer you can ...believe in!
The election was and is irrelevant. Iran's objective has not changed, nor will it, since the Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in 1979. And at least with Ahmadinejad we know what the drill is. At least he is honest. We know who he is, what he is, and what he says. A Mir Hussein Mousavi win would have been a time wasting distraction. His objectives were the same as those of the mullahs. It was a battle between a wolf and a wolf in sheep's clothing. With an Ahmadinejad victory, be grateful we were spared all the leftist media tripe about "a new era" of "interfaith dialogue," featuring Katie Couric donning the hijab to get to know Mousavi's oh-so-progressive mother - all giving them more time to build more centrifuges.
Bottom line: the Iranian election is a non-story, as are the riots, unless the demonstrators push Mousavi aside and topple the Islamic Republic itself. Failing that, it's all smoke and mirrors. The mullahs are running the mahdi madhouse, and they are pursuing their global agenda. This is nonsense.
The real news story is the 55,000 centrifuges running twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and what Iran plans to do with them. The real news story is Obama's timidity as Iran's youth tear through the streets of Iran. He is abetting the mullahs.
It doesn't matter who won. Iran is an annihilationist state.
And either way, Obama is going to bow to these annihilationists. Iran is not going to cut the weak one in the White House any slack. No. They have opted not to give Obama the ruse of a "reformer." There will be no curtain for President Pantywaist to hide behind as he submits to these barbarians. The mullahs are going to show the world what Obama really is.
The President is naked at the feast, baby.
7 comments:
Why would anyone be angry at Obama for having a non-reaction to a non-story?
This story is not about Mousavi. it is not about the Mullahs. It is about the will of the people, AND an opportunity for the USA to cooperate with others to possibly overthrow an evil regime.
I'm guessing Atlas would agree with that. But, perhaps, she has dug herself in too deep.
Although I am known to have been more than unkind to Pamela Geller, I'm afraid she's got it more or less right here. The Persian people didn't find the Shah oppressive enough and got what they wanted, namely that ugly old Mullah goat. Western educated women rallied in the Chador (sp?) for Khomeini. Every people in history who REALLY wanted to get rid of a tyrant did so. The Iranians had 30 years to right that self-inflicted wrong but never did.
The Germans were "freed" by the Americans by force and never forgave them. And as well as the Germans didn't deserve pity, the Iranians do not either now. They and the Germans are two peas in a pod. No wonder they have so excellent business relations.
I, for one, do not feel pity for the Iranians. I generally agree with what you say, Editrix. However, you must admit that, as much as the Germans may not forgive the Americans for saving them from the Nazis, the current German government is certainly more desirable than the Nazi government.
As I said, this story is about the will of the people of Iran, AND, an opportunity for us to destroy the Mullahcracy.
The people fighting against Ahmadinejad and the mullahs deserve all the support we can give them. It is a big story, but I think the bigger one is yet to come. Would they be able to destory the mullahcracy now? I agree with Epam on this. Mousavi wouldn't be enough. The only chance they have for real change is a revolution led by the best among the reformers and dissidents. And Pam's right -- for years people have been saying we should be in there covertly giving them aid and obviously nothing has been done.
It is the Islamic Republic that needs to fall, that is the message that should go with the encouragement. They are focused on the repression now, which is good, but do they also understand that the mullahcracy is herding them towards destruction? Will that be what it takes?
Cheer them on, but yell loudest for the best among them who know they have to drag their country out of the 7th century or die.
And if the mullahs know there will be no repercussions from the rest of the world, they will stop at nothing to put this down. If the President of the United States talks about being "troubled" yet is prepared to deal with the winner even if it's Ahmadhimmijerker and at the cost of a massacre what does that say? Well, actually, with BHO it says business as usual. "Tough" dialogue, my ass.
"...the current German government is certainly more desirable than the Nazi government."
It is -- and that only thanks to America.
"As I said, this story is about the will of the people of Iran, AND, an opportunity for us to destroy the Mullahcracy."
This is as good an opportunity to destroy the Mullahcracy as any day in the last 30 years has been. The Iranians could have refrained from installing it in the first place. Those were IRANIANS, for Heaven's Sake! NOT some naive Westerners to whom anything BUT the Shah was a better alternative. They must have known whom they were establishing. To them, the Shah was too Western, not too oppressive, and while I, of course, hope that the Mullahs will be ousted, regarding the previous record of the Iranians, I am a tiny wee little bit apprehensive what will follow.
By the way, I do not think the elections were rigged. It wasn't necessary to rig them.
You Americans are always presuming that everybody has the same zest for liberty and freedom you have. Iranians are not Americans with beards and burkas. They are, well, Iranians, as well as Germans aren't Americans who happen to eat Schweinshaxe and Sauerkraut. I repeat: Not everybody WANTS freedom and liberty, at least not as you understand it.
Editrix,
You said: This is as good an opportunity to destroy the Mullahcracy as any day in the last 30 years has been.
I say: Let me rephrase that; this is an opportunity to destroy the Mullahcracy without our having to send in the Air Force and troops. The Iranian people can do it for us.
That opportunity has not come up very often.
You said: I do not think the elections were rigged. It wasn't necessary to rig them.
I say: Ahmadinejad carried something like 70% of the Kurdish area. And, that was in the recount. That is a very unlikely number.
But, it is possible that the elections were not rigged. Certainly, there are no candidates who are truly pro-Freedom.
And yes, the Iranian people were the ones who wanted the Mullahs in the first place, and I'm quite sure they knew what they were asking for.
All we can do is to hope for the best. We don't know whether we've seen the worst yet.
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