The Right Wing Claims Ahmadinejad’s Reelection Was A Fraud, But Obama’s Responsible For It Anyway

[jefferson_dem]

The Right Wing Claims Ahmadinejad’s Reelection Was A Fraud, But Obama’s Responsible For It Anyway

On Friday, the Iranian government announced that Mahmoud Ahmadinejadhad won the presidential election, though observers, including his main challenger, cited irregularities — like text messaging being shut off and websites being dismantled — to call the results a fraud. But neoconservatives Richard Perle and Frank Gaffney blamed the election results on President Obama:

Richard Perle, a neoconservative and former Pentagon adviser, said Obama must share the blame for Ahmadinejad’s power grab. “Normally, when you unclench your fist it benefits the hardliners, because Obama appeared to be saying we can do business with you even with your present policies.” <...>

“It underscores the folly of the president’s basic premise that the problem we have with bad actors around the world is that they don’t understand us,” said Frank Gaffney, of the Center for Security Policy, a conservative think tank. “These people are thugs and they have been emboldened by our weakness.”

Similarly, this morning on ABC’s “This Week,” Mitt Romney insisted that the Iranian election result was a fraud — but also appeared to suggest that it was Obama’s fault that Ahmadinejad got reelected:

ROMNEY: The comments by the president last week, that there was a robust debate going on in iran, was obviously entirely wrong-headed. What has occurred is the election is a fraud, the results are inaccurate, and you’re seeing a brutal repression of the people as they protest. … It’s very clear that the president’s policies of going around the world and apologizing for America aren’t working. … Look, just sweet talk and criticizing America is not going to enhance freedom in the world.

Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/14/neocons-blame-obama-iran/

[Uzybone]

1. Romney, the most disingenious looking and sounding man in America

[Cha]

2. Their cheeze and whine theories always blame

everything on Obama and the Dems..and it lost it's relevance somewhere in the last century.

[asphalt.jungle]

3. god he's such a lying little prick. how can you say it's wrong to say there is a robust debate

and then say this in the same sentence "brutal repression of the people as they protest." isn't that what usually happens after people start questioning a dictatorship?

[chelsea0011]

4. And Mitt, you would do what?

Someone, the press maybe, should ask him what he would do and say and then hang it around his neck when the next election comes up.