Something tells me this Axis of Evil Leader wouldn’t have gone to all this trouble if W was still our President:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said an Iranian-American journalist jailed for spying must have her legal right to defend herself.
The request came in a letter from his office to Tehran’s prosecutor, state media reported, a day after Roxana Saberi was jailed for eight years.
This prosecutor obviously didn’t get the memo that times have changed, and upsetting the Great Satan is not the default position in Iranian politics anymore, even among the hardliners. A public smackdown by President Ahmadinejad of this overzealous prosecutor is a clear sign that Obama’s diplomatic charm offensive is making an impact.
Everybody likes us. Today they really. really like us.
Don’t you think that is a little exagerated? 🙂
A touch.
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Snark, I take it?
Woohoo for the USA! Hotdogs, apple pie and (bankrupt) Chevrolet! Now with no torture added.
However, lecturing other countries on fair trials, etc. isn’t operating from a position of strength if our own people are not held accountable for unfair trials ( or no trials), rendition, torture, fake charges (or none), etc. Didn’t Kim Jong Il recently say as much?
… a confession which is absolutely reliable, because, a little birdie has told me, they didn’t even waterboard her to get it. They just put her through ten days of sleep deprivation, until she was a babbling hulk.
And as we know, that’s a perfectly legitimate means of arriving at the truth, so long as you don’t do it for more than eleven days. A sitting judge on the 9th circuit has given us his personal assurance of this eternal truth.
So, the U.S. can’t possibly object, can we? Heck, she wasn’t even held incommunicado for five or six years before being brought to trial. We should adopt the Iranian system as a model of jurisprudence. They coddle spies and terrorists in a way that would be just unthinkable to any self respecting American Republican.
Sure, she says now that she’s innocent. These miscreants are likely to say anything once you ease up on your perfectly legal and humane enhanced interrogation techniques.
Gee, is it actually possible that she maybe did spy? I mean, the biggest problem for our intelligence services has been humint. It strains credulity that the U.S. doesn’t have agents and assets in Iran. And since everything that gets reported out of Iran tends to be cartoonish, is it just a little bit possible that one of our agents could have been a reporter?
I really don’t know, but the presumption that she isn’t doesn’t seem well-informed.
yes it’s very possible, imo.
don’t the usa have any iranian spies to trade for her?
i think it also could be a set up, ahminajad will free her, to show magnaminity and get international kudos, and thus will have a better stance to go into talks with the USA.
the first reason they gave for her arrest was buying alcohol. wrist-slap needed.
anyone else find the picture of O critiquing cuba for it’s imprisonment of political prisoners too rich?
sort out bagram, brother, ( and take care of the racist prison system at home too,) then point fingers all you want.
the world is heartily fed up with american presidents having double standards, no matter how cute their smile.
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HRW: US Should End Indefinite Detention of Five Iranians in Iraq
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."