Iranian dissident snubs Bush on visit to US (warning to America)

[IndianaGreen]

Pretty bad when Iranian dissidents don't want anything to do with Bush! Here Mr. Ganji warns America of the consequences of attacking Iran.

26 July 2006 02:14

Iranian dissident snubs Bush on visit to US

By Jerome Taylor
Published: 26 July 2006

A leading Iranian dissident, Akbar Ganji, has snubbed the Bush administration and criticised its policy in the region by declining to meet White House officials during his visit to the United States.

Mr Ganji said he had been invited to the White House last week to talk about the current situation in his country but declined the offer because of his disapproval of US policy towards Iran, the BBC reported.

The investigative journalist, who spent more than five years in jail for writing articles linking senior Iranian officials to the murder of dissidents in the 1990s, had travelled to the US to campaign for the release of a number of political prisoners. Mr Ganji and his supporters held a symbolic three-day hunger strike outside the United Nations headquarters in New York to put pressure on Iran to release four dissidents being held without charge in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.

During his time in America, Mr Ganji has been keen to voice disapproval of US foreign policy in Iraq which he says has hampered the democratic movement in Iran. "Any intervention by any foreign power would bring charges of conspiracy against us," he said. "What has happened in Iraq did not support our movement in any significant way."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1197259.ece

[MisterP]

1. reminds me of how the Egyptian democracy activists screamed

and leapt under the tables when Emperor George offered to "help"

[IndianaGreen]

2. I don't think we are going to ever recover from the harm that Bush has

done to American interests across the world, and by American interests I mean those things in which the American people are stakeholders, not the corporations.

[maxsolomon]

13. not true

but we won't live to see it.

500 years from now, we will have recovered.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Literally?

I don't recall that story. Could you point me to a link?

[MisterP]

11. figuratively

* isn't that repellent in person, yet

[no_hypocrisy]

3. The Junta in the WH has no use for Iranian dissidents who aren't willing

to be passive stooges/puppets for the neocons once Iran is "Iraq-ed".

[Jokerman]

4. Ganji is missing a great opportunity:

All he has to do is tell the neocon goons what they want to hear and I'm sure they'd make him a rich man. Maybe even give him a top job in the puppet regime they want to setup in Iran.

[Doctor_J]

6. Is it just me, or have we been getting alot of warnings lately?

:scared:

[hadrons]

7. and its a UK paper carrying this story ....

so much for American's "liberal media"

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Understatement of the month

"What has happened in Iraq did not support our movement in any significant way."

What about "set it back at least a decade?"

[Roland99]

9. A few mos. before * took office, Iran was in love with the US! >>>>>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1730704&mesg_id=1730704

[Doctor_J]

10. Um, when Clinton was pres, the whole world loved the US

As with everything else in his life, Il Dunce' has destroyed our standing in the world.

[Judi Lynn]

12. Completely appropriate. Great news. Thank you. n/t