Iran - a warning to Bush
Iran - a warning to Bush
By now, it's "old news": the fanatic Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been elected president of Iran. As AP reports:
It was an ironic twist that Iran's first non-cleric to reach the country's highest elected office since the 1979 Islamic Revolution was more religiously unyielding than the cleric he defeated, former president Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.
"My mission is creating a role model of a modern, advanced, powerful and Islamic society," he said in the message broadcast shortly after the announcement of final results sealed his stunning defeat of the self-proclaimed moderate Rafsanjani.
The victory gives conservatives control of Iran's two highest elected offices - the presidency and parliament.
The results, announced on state television, gave Ahmadinejad 61.6 percent of the vote to Rafsanjani's 35.9 percent. The rest of the ballots were deemed invalid.
Turnout among Iran's approximately 47 million eligible voters was more than 59 percent. In last week's election, the turnout was close to 63 percent.
The PLO is next on line to prove once more that there is more to democracy than elections. To repeat the obvious, "de-Nazification before democratization" is the order of the day. Bush's devotion to the creation of a PLO state in the Land of Israel is bound to end up in the same way: a totalitarian, irridentist, belligerent entity, "democratically elected", which will come to haunt the US as well as Israel. The example of the German election, March 1933, and the example of the Iranian election, June 2005, should be lessons that Bush cannot afford to ignore.
Some, including Bush, find comfort in the fact that the Iranian election were not truly "democratic". But the fact remains: the popular participation was considerable; furthermore, of the two reprehensible candidate, the worst one gained a majority of 61%. I find no comfort whatever in the Bush attempted rationalization. What I do find is confirmation of my thesis, " "de-Nazification before democratization" .
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at June 26, 2005 08:01 AM
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Iran - a warning to Bush
By now, it's "old news": the fanatic Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been elected president of Iran. As AP reports:
The PLO is next on line to prove once more that there is more to democracy than elections. To repeat the obvious, "de-Nazification before democratization" is the order of the day. Bush's devotion to the creation of a PLO state in the Land of Israel is bound to end up in the same way: a totalitarian, irridentist, belligerent entity, "democratically elected", which will come to haunt the US as well as Israel. The example of the German election, March 1933, and the example of the Iranian election, June 2005, should be lessons that Bush cannot afford to ignore.
Some, including Bush, find comfort in the fact that the Iranian election were not truly "democratic". But the fact remains: the popular participation was considerable; furthermore, of the two reprehensible candidate, the worst one gained a majority of 61%. I find no comfort whatever in the Bush attempted rationalization. What I do find is confirmation of my thesis, " "de-Nazification before democratization" .
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at June 26, 2005 08:01 AM