Seeing the way that so many people in the West’s Establishment are willing to vouch for the Iranian election returns, it becomes painfully clear how much our Establishment relies on bogeymen to sustain their agenda (primarily of large defense budgets, foreign intervention, and letting Israel expand into the West Bank). They want Ahmadinejad in power. They need him in power. They’d prefer Ahmadinejad as a dictator to Ahmadinejad as an elected president because it makes it easier to demonize him. Yet, they’re willing to make up scenarios where Ahmadinejad really won the election to help him avoid being ousted for his theft. So, my question is this. If Saddam Hussein had died of an aneurysm and been replaced by a dedicated democratic reformer, do you have any doubt that the democratic reformer would have been treated as the next Hugo Chavez by our elite press and foreign policy Establishment?
