This is shameful that we sit back and support this horrendous regime. Reminds me of Chamberlain prior to WWII.

I really don’t know how you Obama supporters sleep at night…well maybe finally dis-inviting the Iranian diplomats to our July 4th celebrations is enough for you. It isn’t enough for me…thousands are being slaughtered in the streets and YET WE DO NOTHING, SAY NOTHING. This is a disgrace – the Iranians just want freedom and democracy and somehow that isn’t important to our country anymore. This is not a proud day to be American.

http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=6213798&referralPlaylistId=a438e1cadef5a5c9211932781b14d6587b08d851

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/16/reagan-didnt-remain-silent-on-poland/

Gee I wonder what Poland would be like today if Reagan responded like Obama has with Iran.

Video in memory of Neda Agha Soltan, the young female bystander who was shot dead yesterday in the streets of Tehran by a Basij militia sniper. Most appropriately, her name “Neda” in Farsi means “voice” or “call”. Let Neda’s martyrdom be a call to the Iranian people to rise up and stand for freedom from tyranny! The video is set to the Peter Gabriel song, “Biko”, which was written in memory of Stephen Biko, a martyr of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

Obama administration also has zeroed out funding for pro-democracy programs inside Iran from the State Department budget for fiscal 2010, just as protests in Iran are ramping up.

Funding for pro-democracy programs began in 2004, when Congress earmarked $1.5 million of the State Department budget for “educational, humanitarian, and non-governmental organizations and individuals inside Iran to support the advancement of democracy and human rights in Iran.”

The funding ramped up dramatically two years later, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requested $75 million for pro-democracy programs. More than half of the $66.1 million Congress finally appropriated went to expand U.S. government-funded Persian language broadcasting services at Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

But no money has been earmarked for such programs in the administration’s fiscal 2010 foreign operations budget request.

Now some would say we are just trying to save money…but when you look at this FACT:

Obama recently pledged $900 million in assistance to Hamas.

WTH is going on here?

Obama’s arrogance will be his downfall. His arrogance is causing a very naive approach to countries like Iran. What this will all fall apart and be a massive failure of foreign policy. His grand experiment is helping get many innocent people killed.

It is the U.N., Obama, Bush and past weak policy that has allowed this regime to exist-unchecked and unchallenged.

We shouldn’t even be having this discussion today. We need to wake up and understand what kind of people we are dealing with (not the public – the people in control) in countries like Iran and DPRK. Until we eliminate the leadership nothing will change and their respective regions will become more dangerous.

There were many times in the past 20 years where we could have done something to avoid this but we don’t have the political will. We have a bunch of elected cowards that sit back and watch innocents get slaughtered all over the world.

We can’t support an invasion in Iran now – there is no way we would be successful we don’t have a commander in chief that understands success, doing the best we can do…

Glenn it seems to me Obama does not really have an Iran policy yet, and he’s right to wait for things to stabilize before jumping into the fray.

You seem to want the US to move in militarily but that would be used to justify a massive repressive crackdown and would undermine the opposition’s efforts immediately and force them to back the regime against what would be seen as an “invasion”. We’d have nobody to support, not to mention Iran is much stronger than Iraq was and that became a quagmire fast. We’d lose the momentum and respect around the globe the Obama election has fostered.

It is shameful for a country as powerful as the USA to sit back and basically do nothing at this time. You want to make allies with the Iranian people…let’s help them effect change NOW.

I wouldn’t put it past Iran to launch a strike on Israel at this time to put the entire region into chaos.

Of course since we are taking the same foolish approach with DPRK we will see similar violence in the near future.