Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday called the recent reelection of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a “sham” and criticized President Barack Obama’s administration for not voicing strong opposition to the election’s result.
“The reaction of the Iranian people shows their discontent with this regime,” McCain said during an interview on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”
“It’s really a sham that they’ve pulled off and I hope that we will act,” he said.
Iranian citizens continued to protest the election results Monday, which showed Ahmadinejad winning by a nearly 2-1 ratio. Ahmadinejad’s chief opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has claimed that the Iranian president’s win was the result of election fraud.
On Saturday, the White House released a short statement on the election from press secretary Robert Gibbs, but Obama himself has yet to speak about the election.
“Like the rest of the world, we were impressed by the vigorous debate and enthusiasm that this election generated, particularly among young Iranians,” Gibbs said. “We continue to monitor the entire situation closely, including reports of irregularities.”
McCain chided the administration for not coming out more forcefully against Ahmadinejad’s reelection, voicing disappointment in administration officials who have been quoted in some news reports indicating that “they’re not going to change their policy of dialogue.”
“I think they should be condemned, and it’s obvious that this was a rigged election and depriving the people of their democratic rights,” the Arizona senator said. “We are for human rights all over the world.”
Later in the interview, McCain criticized former CIA Director Leon Panetta for telling The New Yorker magazine that “it’s almost as if [former Vice President Dick Cheney] is wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”
“Leon Panetta knows Dick Cheney, and he knows better,” McCain said.
“I disagreed with the Cheney policy on interrogation techniques, but never did it cross my mind that Dick Cheney would ever want an attack on the United States of America,” he said. “It’s unfair, and I think that Mr. Panetta should retract, and retract immediately.”
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sad thing is, iran will be bombed soon, even though they are decades away from a nuke, that they wouldnt use anyway. iran and n korea need nukes for self defense against the imperial american empire.they DONT want to wind up like iraq, occupied for the next 100 years.
If McCain really knew Cheney, like the casual 9-11 Truther, he would know just the opposite of what he thinks he knows.
In 1492, Chemor, chief Rabbi of Spain, wrote to the Grand Sanhedrin, which had its seat in Constantinople, for advice, when a Spanish law threatened expulsion.2 This was the reply:
” Beloved brethren in Moses, we have received your letter in which you tell us of the anxieties and misfortunes which you are enduring. We are pierced by as great pain to hear it as yourselves.
The advice of the Grand Satraps and Rabbis is the following:
1. As for what you say that the King of Spain obliges you to become Christians: do it, since you cannot do otherwise.
2. As for what you say about the command to despoil you of your property: make your sons merchants that they may despoil, little by little, the Christians of theirs.
3. As for what you say about making attempts on your lives: make your sons doctors and apothecaries, that they may take away Christians’ lives.
4. As for what you say of their destroying your synagogues: make your sons canons and clerics in order that they may destroy their churches. [Emphasis mine]
5. As for the many other vexations you complain of: arrange that your sons become advocates and lawyers, and see that they always mix in affairs of State, that by putting Christians under your yoke you may dominate the world and be avenged on them.
6. Do not swerve from this order that we give you, because you will find by experience that, humiliated as you are, you will reach the actuality of power.
(Signed) PRINCE OF THE JEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE.”
2. The reply is found in the sixteenth century Spanish book, La Silva Curiosa, by Julio-Iniguez de Medrano (Paris, Orry, 1608), on pages 156 and 157, with the following explanation: “This letter following was found in the archives of Toledo by the Hermit of Salamanca, (while) searching the ancient records of the kingdoms of Spain; and, as it is expressive and remarkable, I wish to write it here.” — vide, photostat facing page 80.
~ The above was quoted from Waters Flowing Eastward by Paquita de Shishmareff, pp. 73-74