"Poll blow for Iran's Ahmadinejad".......

[madrchsod]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6190673.stm
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Poll blow for Iran's Ahmadinejad

so it seems that the people in Iran are not so different than we are.

[acmavm]

1. Did anyone really believe the Iranian man/woman on the

street was a whacky as that guy? Please, even when the Ayatollah Khomeni (sp?) had an iron grip around the throat of the country the people got sick and tired of the craziness after a short while.

Why do we never credit other nationalities for being as intuitive and political savvy as we are? Especially in the Middle East where politics is a 5,000 year old spectator sport?

[Poll_Blind]

2. Most Iranians are very in the dark about Ahmadinejad's invective...

...but especially about how the rest of the world views Iran because of it. I read an interesting piece (can't recall by whom, which pains me greatly because it would be an excellent link) by a reporter who traveled to Iran recently to see what "word on the street" was about this kerfuffle. Almost everyone he spoke to was very friendly toward Americans, personally, and did not seem to be aware, or only be aware dimly, of the international furor among Western nations that Ahmadinejad is causing.

  Still, the Iranians have the power to vote his manipulative ass out of power, something glossed over too frequently in our desire to use Regan-esque "Evil-Empirisms" to paint Iran as a dictatorship.

PB

[hvn_nbr_2]

3. If Bush had been willing to talk to him...

he could have told him about the advantages of using Diebold.