New Iranian president may be terrorist - NBC says it's OK

Update: Jackson's Junction has posted photos from a friend in Iran which show empty Iranian polling places, and a letter which explains that the Iranian government bussed large groups of government workers to polling places and put on a show for the CNN cameras.  In other words, most Iranians stayed home and the election was faked.  Color me unsurprised. 
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Today's hot news story concerns the newly "elected" President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  After viewing video of Ahmadinejad on television, a group of five of the former hostages held by Iranian radicals in 1979 - 1980 swear that Ahmadinejad was one of their captors.

Former hostages Chuck Scott, David Roeder, William J. Daugherty and Don A. Sharer told The Associated Press that after seeing Ahmadinejad on television, they have no doubt he was one of the hostage-takers. A fifth ex-hostage, Kevin Hermening, said he reached the same conclusion after looking at photos. A close aide to Ahmadinejad denied the president-elect took part in the seizure of the embassy or in holding Americans hostage.

So far, Jimmy Carter has not bothered to comment.  Or no one has asked his opinion.  I don't know which.  Either way, it will be interesting to see what Carter has to say about this - that is, if he's not busy flying over to Iran and certifying their "election."

No one should really be surprised about this if it turns out to be true.  Undoubtedly the Iranian hostage takers would have been folk heroes in their nation, and it is reasonable to assume that the mullahs would have cleared a path for the brightest of the bunch to eventually become a part of the national leadership.  After all, look how many former Palestinian terrorists hold positions of authority in the West Bank - including their president, Mahmoud Abbas.  No one in the world community holds anyone except Americans or the UK responsible for anything, so why expect them to start now?

And we sure didn't have to wait long for the MSM to start apologizing.  Today, NBC's Brian Williams made a logical leap that Michael Moore was surely proud of.  Michelle Malkin is reporting that in a conversation with Andrea Mitchell, he said,

"What would it all matter if proven true? Someone brought up today the first several U.S. presidents were certainly revolutionaries and might have been called 'terrorists' by the British crown, after all."

Mmmmkay.  Brian, if you want to be the new golden boy of network news, you've got to learn a few things.  You might start with the fact that George Washington's army wore uniforms, did not attack civilians, and wasn't culled from the ranks of foreign criminals and ne'er-do-wells.  Your point has a little bit of flimsy logic, insofar as warring nations tend to integrate their soldiers back into mainstream society and usually don't dwell on what they did while they were on the battlefield.  But otherwise it's idiotic.

Actually you're drifting pretty far into moonbat territory here, Brian.  Maybe you're angling for a press box seat next to Jimmy Carter at the next DNC convention, and you can both discuss the Iranian Hostage situation there.  Maybe Tony Orlando will be performing at the convention, too. All I know is that you won't be doing yourself any favors mimicking Moore's "Iraqi terrorists are the new Minute Men" schtick.

It's probably a good time to relay this important headline from the AP: Most Iraq Suicide Bombs by Foreigners.  An excerpt:

The vast majority of suicide attackers in Iraq are thought to be foreigners — mostly Saudis and other Gulf Arabs — and the trend has become more pronounced this year with North Africans also streaming in to carry out deadly missions, U.S. and Iraqi officials say.

The bombers are recruited from Sunni communities, smuggled into Iraq from Syria after receiving religious indoctrination, and then quickly bundled into cars or strapped with explosive vests and sent to their deaths, the officials told The Associated Press. The young men are not so much fighters as human bombs — a relatively small but deadly component of the Iraqi insurgency.

"The foreign fighters are the ones that most often are behind the wheel of suicide car bombs, or most often behind any suicide situation," said U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Don Alston, spokesman for the Multinational Force in Iraq.

Officials have long believed that non-Iraqis infiltrating the country through its porous borders with Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia were behind most suicide missions, and the wave of bloody strikes in recent months has confirmed that thinking.

One of the strategies employed in the Iraqi war was to turn northern Iraq into a "magnet" for Al Qaeda and other similar-minded scum.  That way, we could fight them in the Middle East instead of fighting them here in the US.  As the story suggests, this "flypaper strategy" is working, though at an unfortunate cost of civilian lives.

Anti-war moonbats may argue that the killings are the fault of the US.  In actuality, they are the fallout from Saddam Hussein's two-decade-long love affair with numerous terrorist factions.  He originally gave them carte blanche access to his nation and showered them with equipment and money.  His only real requirement for friendship was a mutual hatred of the United States.  And now they feel that they have the freedom to kill whomever they wish.

Again this story simply illustrates that the fighters in Iraq today are terrorists, plain and simple.  Not "insurgents," not "minutemen," not "gunmen," or any other optimistic euphemism that the press cares to give them. They are foreign mercenaries who journey to Iraq simply to kill Americans and to seed the Iraqi populace with fear and loathing for the Americans.  Jimmy Carter and his ilk taught them well - kill enough Americans and air enough film of dead civilians on the network news, and America will cut and run.  That's why these terrorists fight. 

They don't want independence.  They don't have a clue as to how they would govern.  The don't know diddly about economics or infrastructure or law or any of the things that are melded together to make up a national government.  All they know how to do is kill.  And to compare them to anyone who ever fought for real freedom or liberty is a disgrace and an insult.