Rick, every time I hear that, I almost start crying.

Even JFK’s inaugural is not as effective as rhetoric. Bush is talking to people across the world today, now, in actual bondage or living life on autopilot, hoping the mukhabarat will not come for them. This is hope–they know, and I believe, Bush means it.

Affluence, comfort, are all wonderful byproducts of living as an American today, but this is a call to our destiny.

Not only that it was easier to hide things in the 80′s. The Iranians may not be able to establish that kind of control.

I hear they are burning French flags.

But the MSM is silent about this.

Iran has a very different demographic, being far more divided along age lines. The students will likely bury the mullahs eventually.

Here is some interesting analysis of Israeli and US military options, practice-runs in Israel and US considerations to run the operations independently (should they be needed) to spare the Mid-East Peace Process…

http://www.rightviews.com/

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The Tiannemen Square protests in Beijing were huge and lasted for several (?) weeks before being ruthlessly crushed by the government. Since then there has been no large scale democracy movement in China. I could see a similar action happening in Iran. One difference might be the degree of pressure from the outside that might be brought to bear on Iran either diplomatically or covertly. Such an option was simply not available towards China in 1989.

My favorite blog source for Iran updates is DoctorZin at Regime Change Iran . He has some updates on the current protests – although nothing past the last week appears to be going on. Adventures of Chester has a helpful review of recent news DoctorZin’s site. Scroll down to March 14.

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/.www/status.html

I’ve noticed that many successful revolutions are successful in part because the military could not be depended on to suppress the population. Looks like the tipping point is almost near.

Gerard at American Digest has this post up. With a great picture that Americans will find heartwarming and mullahs will find nauseating.

I can’t find further confirmation (other than the Vinson left Singapore a few days ago).