With events unfolding in Iran, we watch and wish for freedom for their people. But in thinking over their experience with a fraudulent presidential election and contrasting it with our own election scandals, perhaps we should cconclude that we are the ones who need the freedom.
I applaud the courage of the Iranians to stand up to a corrupt government and demand the truth as to who won their election. Some of them have lost their lives for holding the conviction that a life without the freedom to seek the truth was worth risking.
Though there were demonstrations against the Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore, which decided the 2000 election, and the 2001 inauguration of President George W. Bush, they were nowhere near the scale of what Iranian reformers have amassed in size or passion. For the most part, we took a number of questionable decisions, all of which favored Bush, on the chin without any semblance of demand for our right to fair elections:
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