US hawks rooting for hardline Iranian candidate

[MadisonProgressive]

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/d6614e78-e44b-11d9-a754-00000e2511c8.html

Make you wonder why....

[glaucon]

1. Pretty simple, actually...

They think the hardliner will be more interested in reactionary social repression than a nuclear program. Bu$hCo will be happy to strike a deal wherein they "look the other way" while the hardliners clamp down hard on human rights, in exchange for a more open posture toward the west vis a vis their nuclear program.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Or maybe they think that the hardliner will rail against the Great Satan

a lot and provide the Bushies with lots of sound bites to scare Middle America with.

[Matilda]

3. More likely to provide an excuse for invasion.

"We must free the Iranian people and bring them true democracy. We
must go in and kill them in order to save them."

[Up2Late]

4. Hardliners are more demonic, and this is great...

"...in the final round of Iran's presidential election today, rifts within the Bush administration have exposed a lack of coherent US policy towards the Islamic republic, as well as serious differences with much of Europe.

The more things change...