Monday, June 15, 2009

Obama:Iranian Voters Choice Must be Respected


With all the chaos after the contested election in Iran, this is all our gutless so called leader could come up with. This is the equivalent of him voting "present" over and over in the Senate.

Obama: Iranian voters' voices should be heard

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday said Iranian voters have a right to feel their ballots mattered and urged the investigation into vote-rigging allegations to go forward without additional violence.

Obama said reports of violence that followed Iranian elections trouble him and all Americans. He said peaceful dissent should never be subject to violence that followed weekend elections that gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term.

"It would be wrong for me to be silent on what we've seen on the television the last few days," Obama told reporters at the White House.

Obama said he had no way of knowing the results were valid — he said the United States had no election monitors in the country — but it was important that the voters' choices be respected.


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