Powerline, Little Green Footballs and our blog, SoCalPundit were caught scratching our heads Saturday morning at this article written by Amir Taheri of pro-western internet daily, ArabNews.com.
Mr. Taheri writes of insane comments made by former President Bill Clinton at last month's Davos World Economic Forum about Iran. Taheri writes:
Here is what Clinton said at a meeting on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, just a few weeks ago: “Iran today is, in a sense, the only country where progressive ideas enjoy a vast constituency. It is there that the ideas that I subscribe to are defended by a majority.”
And here is what Clinton had to say in a recent television interview with Charlie Rose:
“Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997). (It is) the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote in six elections: Two for president; two for the Parliament, the Majlis; two for the mayoralties. In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote. There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.”
So, while millions of Iranians, especially the young, look to the United States as a mode of progress and democracy, a former president of the US looks to the Islamic Republic as his ideological homeland.
UPDATE: Little Green Footballs has posted an audio clip of Clinton in Davos that is accessible here.
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