Iran, USA and Twitter

In the past weeks much has happened on Twitter with and about the Iranian elections.

if Many of us greened our avatars in support of Iranians and we also commented on what might have happened if Twitter had existed in 2000 or 2004. Imagine the outpouring of tweets about the stolen election in Florida, the lack of backbones in democrats who refused to stand up to boss bush and his legal threat team in Florida.

If we had had more support and a way to communicate quickly - maybe the world would be very different right now [or maybe not] - we'll never know.

And 2004 - what if we had been able to tweet about Ohio all day - the election problems there - missing ballots, early closing, lack of machines when it was known they would be needed, long lines and hacked black boxes - with UberRepug Ken Blackwell in charge of the Ohio voting!

We would not have wanted interference from other countries - but we would have welcomed the emotional support and proxies had the bush admin shut down some ISPs or whatever it is the Iranian government is doing!

We could have take the the streets and still been in touch via our cell phones - limited as they were back then.

So why is Iran happening? I think the citizens there saw what happened here with 8 years of bush corruption, cronyism and lack of oversight of anything.

They saw the havoc that bush wrought with his additional 4 stolen years and they don't want 4 more years of Ahmadinejad...

The USA serves as an example of what happen you calmly accept fraudulent elections and allow corruption and illegality to go on unabated. Negative examples are as powerful learning tools as positive ones.

The world is still paying for our 8 years and Iranians look at us and do not wish to add to the mess in the world.

Comments?

Dear Mr. Bush:

Mr. Bush:

I read in the news that you say that critics of your escalation plan ought to come up with plans of their own.

I am not sure where you have been for the last 6 years but surely if you had paid attention to the news you'd have seen that many plans were and are offered to you and to your Administration. Perhaps your underlings have been too afraid to let you know that plans are available - sort of like when they were afraid to tell you about Hurricane Katrina.... They fear your reaction.

Might I suggest that you take a few days off from cheer leading for your escalation and go back and read what has been said about plans for Iraq over the last few years...including the most recent report done by the Iraq Study Group.

Saner heads, and I mean that in all ways possible, have suggested you actually engage in diplomacy with Iran and Syria and not continue to war monger and threaten them. You might see, I hope, that Iraq is a mess....and it needs a political solution. You can not bomb people into liking you - no matter how many bombs you drop...Most hate you more when you kill their friends and family...

And being diplomatic means you actually come or go to the table with no pre-conditions. Your stated preconditions mean you do not really want to talk to anyone. And if you want help from our allies in Iraq - Haliburton and you may actually have to allow other countries to share in all aspects of reconstruction and you may have to take back the onerous laws you and your viceroy put into place for Iraq...

And as to the Iraqi vote- you talk more about that then you do our most recent elections where our USA citizens told you in quite plain language they are most unhappy with you and your policies....

So stay home Mr. Bush and have your staff bring you DVDs on all the plans that have been presented to the public. It won't take you months to learn about the plans and you may yet find a way out of the mess YOU alone [with Cheney] have created for our children and Iraq's children.....