It's all over – except for the lying.

Until recently, other than a few political hacks and incurable news junkies such as myself, no one even remotely cared about Iran's elections. But now that our western media does a daily hatchet job on Iran, it has become very apparent that our ownership, by turning public sentiment against Iran, is inventing a case for war.

As I see it, love him or hate him, agree or disagree, Ahmadinejad's political support comes from the far more numerous poor peasant classes. Iran's liberal, relatively wealthy urban middleclass is a relatively smaller group. It's wouldn't surprise me if Ahmadinejad won fair and square. Prior to the election, several reputable independent polling companies found he had 60% support.

This trend seems to be catching on in many third world countries and it makes sense.

You see, in true democratic fashion, when the impoverished poor (if their votes are actually counted) greatly outnumber the privileged rich, they usually win the day. Seriously, it shouldn't surprise anyone if extremely poor people vote for the candidate promising social welfare, healthcare, education and an improved living standard.

Poor majorities likely voted for Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and for Evo Morales in Bolivia and for Lula da Silva in Brazil (and Zelaya in Honduras?). I suspect the same is probably true for Ahmadinejad in Iran. Whether you agree or not with their socialist politics is immaterial.

And, while the heated protests in Tehran may well be the real article, with a little extra fuel tossed on the fire by western intelligence and media (who are more or less the same people lately), the protesters likely do not represent the majority of the Iranian populace.

Of course, from a western point of view, we're blinded by our own myopic, middleclass sensibilities that are constantly re-enforced by mainstream media as the only opinions we hear expressed in our media seem to come from angry Iranian exiles or pro-Israeli/anti Iranian "experts."

This is very similar to the slanted western reporting we get from Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan as our media consistently gives more weight and airtime to the opinions of "anonymous" military sources than named, eyewitness local reporters on the ground.

So while Obama "the man of change" and part-time superhero may rightfully condemn the Iranian government for the violent clamp down on election protests, his own government, without much media attention, continues to incarcerate in Guantanamo, Bagram and launch drone strikes at Pakistan (which have killed hundreds of innocent civilians).

As is typical of recent American presidents, Barack Obama is a fraud and his words are empty.

But never fear Uncle Sam, your power and dominance are still safe for, as that great comedian and philosopher George Carlin would say, "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

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