In his strongest words yet, President Barack Obama condemned Iran's violent suppression of its own people Tuesday, condemning the Iranian government and lauding Iranians who've braved brutality to protest what they feel was a rigged election.
"The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings, and imprisonments of the last few days," he said. "I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost."
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"I have made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not at all interfering in Iran’s affairs. But we must also bear witness to the courage and dignity of the Iranian people, and to a remarkable opening within Iranian society. And we deplore violence against innocent civilians anywhere that it takes place."
"These accusations are patently false and absurd," he said of Iranian charges of US "meddling." "They are an obvious attempt to distract people from what is truly taking place within Iran's borders. This tired strategy of using old tensions to scapegoat other countries won't work anymore in Iran. This is not about the United States and the West; this is about the people of Iran, and the future that they, and only they, will choose."
Will this put an end to the Republicans' "tired strategy of using old tensions to scapegoat" Obama? You're kidding, right? No matter what Obama says or does, it won't be enough. And don't count on the media to ask them what would be enough, because they're not asking that now.
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It won't be enough. Obama can't do anything right. They would probably be mad if he sent the army over the border to help overturn the election. They would be hollering fiscal conservativism and the cost of a free Iran is too great for us to bear. The reps have to go.
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