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 <title>Traditionalists or Progressives: the democratic Iranian Society</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;If USA really wants to help any progressive Iranian movement, may I suggest that we should stay out of the Iranian internal politics. We Americans hate any nation meddling in our internal affairs. Progressive Iranian population, the last thing they would need is the label of being attached to the Uncle Sam. Bush&#039;s meddling in Iran worked against the progressive section of the Iranian society. I have used the term progressive, not moderates. Iranian Traditionalist (religious, very nationalistic, often poor, and under educated) are the majority of the Iranian population. The Progressives are young, better educated and often the middle class segment of the Iranian population. A search in demographics and the statistics of the Iranian population would support my statement.&lt;br /&gt;
The Iranian election was about who will control the democratic Iranian society, the Traditionalists or the Progressives. The Progressives, as a minority of the population, lost the election to Ahmadinejad. We will not advance our American interests, or the Prgoressive Iranian movement, by listening to the Republicans who advocate a more aggressive policy toward Iran. Our diplomatic approach to Iran will disarm the members of the Traditionalists and advance the progressive movements.&lt;br /&gt;
The change in demographics of Iran toward a larger middle class will shift the internal Iranian policy toward the Progressives. Our past mistakes and political and financial burdens we have placed on the Iranian people will not advance our American interests.&lt;br /&gt;
Please read:USA Political Debate: Iran and the Election&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://straveler-myamerica.blogspot.com/2009/06/usa-political-debate-iran-and-election.html&quot; title=&quot;http://straveler-myamerica.blogspot.com/2009/06/usa-political-debate-iran-and-election.html&quot;&gt;http://straveler-myamerica.blogspot.com/2009/06/usa-political-debate-ira...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <value>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:16:25 -0700</value>
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 <title>Iran! What&#039;s next? By David Corn</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;1. The 18,000  Israel registered &#039;twitters&#039; which went into action less than one hour after poll close, knew exactly what they wanted. They &#039;twittered&#039; because &#039;twitter&#039; is &#039;names&#039; without faces and addresses. For the Masters of Mis/Disinformation &#039;twitters&#039; can at the least &quot;confuse&quot;, &quot;anger&quot; and &quot;goad towards ACTION&quot; at no real cost and without any fear of being caught and questioned. It is also heartless because it sends gullible idiots to the &#039;guillotine&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Were not these Iranians the same the Israelis have always wanted and still want to &#039;bomb, bomb and bomb&#039; back to the Stone Age? So, from where all this sympathy for Iranians is coming from.&lt;br /&gt;
3. The Zionists, both Christain and Jewish and their allies in the Oil, Gas and Defense Industrial Mafiosis plus the neo-imperialists in America, Europe and Australia, should find out what next to do to get regime change in Iran.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <value>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:08:42 -0700</value>
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 <title>Check the spelling: Mousavi, not Mousvai</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Check the spelling: Mousavi, not Mousvai&lt;/p&gt;
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 <value>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:45:18 -0700</value>
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 <title>By Example</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Anon92107 is spot-on. We (the people) have allowed the US to descend into a mire of corporate government, mediocre media, and an uninformed populous. The &#039;election&#039; of 2000 was no less a theft of votes than that alleged in Iran. What followed has been a calculated disassembly of what little remains of our representative democracy. Iranian counterparts to Cheney Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Armitage, Bolton, Yoo, etc. have learned well.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <title>This Is A Warning To Fix Corruption In Washington First </title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Actually David, We The People must fix our own Democracy first, because the failures by all of our elected politicians in both the House and the Senate have resulted in the economic and political disasters we are suffering the consequences of throughout America today with millions of jobs exported along with far too much of the Wealth of America gained by hard work of We The People since WWII, exported by special interests who have ruled Washington politicians for far too long.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our corrupt and incompetent politicians, who are actually anointed and elected by political parties controlled their special interest owners, have proven beyond all doubt during the last eight years that our most important educational and religious institutions have failed America.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The truth is that if America&#039;s Founding Fathers could return and witness what is happening today in Washington today, they would write another Declaration of Independence to free us from special interests who have replaced the Tory Aristocracy of 1776, special interests who are once again destroying our unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness because we are still disposed to suffer a long train of abuses and usurpations that have damned near reduced us once again to absolute despotism during the Cheney-Bush era.&lt;/p&gt;
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