The Rude Pundit: Photos That Take Us Beyond Neda

Near the Iranian consulate in Istanbul yesterday, protesters show photos of the now-famously dead Neda and others killed and injured during protests in Tehran.

From a purely American perspective, selfishly so, this uprising in Iran has stabbed a hole in heart of any and all arguments for bombing that member of the axis of evil. Indeed, if it succeeds, nearly the entire raison d'etre for much of the right wing in this country, from the colonialist neocons to the "bomb Iran" yahoos, will be gone, flushed away like blood on the pavement of Tehran.

If, as George W. Bush says endlessly, freedom and democracy are what people desire, what Iran is showing that it has to come from the citizens, not from the imposition of conquerers in denial. Even if they fail, the marches will have humanized a people who have been demonized by our leaders for decades. And once that happens, the discussion of murdering thousands of them by us is over.

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Unfortunately, the right wing don't use their reasoning faculties to decide wars....or killing somebody. In fact, they think reason gets in the way of doing what they "feel" like doing in their "gut".

The rednecks in this rural North Carolina county where I live are armed to the teeth with automatic rifles, because "Obama is going to take away {their} guns". Just ask 'em. All I hear is "Obama scares the hell out of me". These people don't need a "reason".