WE really do, PATHOLOGICALLY dare, to lecture IRAN, on fair elections?!

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  The countless books on not only the stolen election of 2000, but of 2004 as well, and of the Repubs$' hack computer companies' suppression of Democratic and minority and poor voters, on arguably a far more systematic and sinister nature[than in 2000, 2002, or 2004] in both the 2006 and 2008 national "elections" [Barack *Obama, probably really DID win the State of Missouri, and its electoral votes in 2008, and but for the vast voter suppression apperatus, most nearly-to-totally aimed at Democratic, Poor, and Minority Voters, Obama really won, according to election integrity experts, mathematicians, and others, more like 59%-61%, at the very least, of the total national vote count] really leave me grating, at the utter ongoing gaul, of the TV and Major 'News$' media heads$ criticism, ongoing, of the Iranians and their electoral processes, which apparently, did allow countless foreign and other non-partison observers, all over and throughout Iran, for its latest elections[*the Iranian Government's final vote tabulations were held "in secret," it is said, but that is apparently, ONLY for the final and official vote figures and numbers' announcement, though I might have that one incorrect], ... with this being, a far cry from the "American" State of Ohio's electoral process, according to Dr. Mark Crispen Miller's book,  Fooled Again: The Real Case For Electoral Reform.

 The following was taken from Chapter 2 of that book, "Taking Care of the Counting" :

          Contrary to a prior understanding, [J.Kenneth] Blackwell also

          kept foreign monitors away from the Ohio polls. Having been

          formally invited by the State Department on June 9th, ob-

          servers from the Organization For Security and Cooperation

          in Europe(OSCE), an international consortium based in Vienna,

          were here to witness and report on the election. The mission's

          two-man teams had been approved to monitor the process in

           11 states -- but the observers in Ohio were kept out. "We

          thought we could be at the polling places before, during and

          after" the voting, says Soren Sondergaard, a Danish member

          of the team. Denied admission to polls in Columbus, he and

          his partner went to John Kenneth Blackwell, who refused

          them letters of approval, on the basis of a very narrow reading

          of Ohio law. The two observers therefore had to "monitor" the

          voting at a distance of 100 yards away from each polling 

           place. While not illegal, Blackwell's refusal was improper and,

          of course, suspicious. (The Conyers Report does not deal with

          this episode.) While it did not, of course, directly cut the 

          Kerry vote, the attempted blackout indicates that Blackwell,

          and the Bush/Cheney campaign, had much to hide.

            Election Day in Ohio saw lots of weird things happening to

           voters, and to the vote, in county after county -- a broad

            range of electoral anomalies, not one of which resulted in

               a loss[of votes] for Bush. (29)

      And we still try to put the election "onus of honest VOTE-COUNTING," only on Iran, today, or such nations as The Ukraine, in late 2004 and early 2005?!

Authors Bio:
"Former" U.S. Marine, "Former" Harvard Man and "Scholar," ... of sorts. Mentally Ill, activist, online and otherwise, for my fellow mentally ill and retarded fellow CITIZENS, PEOPLE, and online activist for COUNTLESS other causes.
Am cautiously hopefully, as of this date of Jan. 18th, 2009, A.D., just prior to our first African-AMERICAN President's being sworn into his presumably, STILL "U.S. CONSTITUTION Upholding and Respecting" Office.
Will again state herein, that I firstly do PRAY, and yes HOPE firstly for Barack HUSSEIN Obama's, EIGHT FULL YEARS OF FULL HEALTH AND TOTAL SAFETY IN THE PEOPLE'S WHITE HOUSE.
As for the "change" that he, and his overall ADMINISTRATION, shall truly deliver, ... we must wait, and see. Thank You.