Over the last couple of days watching the news about the Iranian election I actually got to thinking "What if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually won the election".We are being bombarded with UK/US biased news reports that it was all a fix. Protestors have taken to the streets in Iran, probably egged on by the West, to claim the same.
But who knows that he didn't win?Those countries are very hardline and their beliefs towards their leaders and the West are strong - I think perhaps they like their current leader and want him to continue.Just because it doesn't sit well with the West makes it an automatic fix.
Just say it was a fair election, it again stinks of the type of democracy that many in the West want. Look at what happened in recent elections in NI and UK. The BNP got a seat, voted for democratically by the people, but thats not allowed according to those that supposedly believe in democracy. And in NI, Sinn Fein minister De Bruin got 125,000 votes (a very large proportion of the voting public), yet some Unionists are claiming they won't talk/deal with Sinn Fein - thus immediately dismissing 125,000 democratic votes in a free election.
And as I type I listen to Gordon Brown demonstrate yet again the UKs (US also guilty of this) total hypocritical beliefs when he calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be released from prison in Burma, while the West holds and tortures many innocent people in Guantanamo without charge.
But who knows that he didn't win?Those countries are very hardline and their beliefs towards their leaders and the West are strong - I think perhaps they like their current leader and want him to continue.Just because it doesn't sit well with the West makes it an automatic fix.
Just say it was a fair election, it again stinks of the type of democracy that many in the West want. Look at what happened in recent elections in NI and UK. The BNP got a seat, voted for democratically by the people, but thats not allowed according to those that supposedly believe in democracy. And in NI, Sinn Fein minister De Bruin got 125,000 votes (a very large proportion of the voting public), yet some Unionists are claiming they won't talk/deal with Sinn Fein - thus immediately dismissing 125,000 democratic votes in a free election.
And as I type I listen to Gordon Brown demonstrate yet again the UKs (US also guilty of this) total hypocritical beliefs when he calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be released from prison in Burma, while the West holds and tortures many innocent people in Guantanamo without charge.