This oughta make IranianMonitor's day. As long as President Bush stands with the Iranian people, the Iranian people will stand with him..." The BBC world service website recently released the results of their 2004 presidential poll. Of the sixteen linguistic ethnical groups surveyed, Persians were overwhelmingly the most supportive of President Bush. In fact, over fifty two percent of Iranians preferred Republican George W. Bush to challenger John Kerry who’d received a minuscule forty two percent of the vote. Thus, surprisingly, unlike in the United States where the presidential race was relegated to a couple of percentage points, in Iran - President Bush won by a landslide. Numerous other sources of plausible acclaim have confirmed these results. Renowned intellectuals, as well as award-winning journalists have written pieces on this critical issue. For instance, Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times who spent an entire week in the country recently wrote, “Finally, I’ve found a pro-American country. Everywhere I’ve gone in Iran, with one exception, people have been exceptionally friendly and fulsome in their praise for the United States, and often for President George W. Bush as well.” Thomas Friedman another Pulitzer Prize winner and ardent critic of the war in Iraq wrote “young Iranians are loving anything their government hates, such as Mr. Bush, and hating anything their government loves. Iran . . . is the ultimate red state.”
Old news. Such surveys as it relates to Iran are unrepresentative, because their sample is skewed. It is like asking who people in San Fransisco would vote for in the 2004 presidential race and extrapolating the results for the Us as a whole. No one, not even the Bush administration, doubts anymore that the majority in Iran aren't interested in his brand of foreign policy and bullying. But you are welcome to your delusions.
WHAT? Kerry is trailing among Persians! How can you say this is old news!?! By the way, the Yanks are three-zip ahead of those pathetic Red Sox. Long Live The Curse!
