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Insurrection: Day 2 — The great Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski witnessed and wrote about dozens of revolutions in the course of his life. He has, perhaps, seen more revolutions than anyone in the history of the world. He knew, while he lived, revolutions better than anyone.

Discussion: Power Line, Gateway Pundit, Hullabaloo, Political Byline, Balloon Juice, niacINsight, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Israpundit, Pam's House Blend, Pajamas Media, Global Voices Online, ReadWriteWeb, Riehl World View, A Blog For All, The Daily Dish, Pundit & Pundette, Wake up America and RealClearWorld

Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:

The Rovian Islamist — Ahmadinejad's bag of tricks is eerily like that of Karl Rove - the constant use of fear, the exploitation of religion, the demonization of liberals, the deployment of Potemkin symbolism like Sarah Palin: … Think of this regime as Cheney and Rove in a police state setting, and you see what's been going on.

Discussion: The Other McCain, American Power, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Macsmind and The TrogloPundit

Salon:
Letter from Tehran: The day after — Editor's note …

Discussion: NO QUARTER

Juan Cole / Informed Comment:
Class v. Culture Wars in Iranian Elections: Rejecting Charges …

Discussion: FP Passport, Unqualified Offerings, Tom Watson, RealClearWorld and Open Left

Martina Stewart / CNN:
Pence: Obama should speak out in favor of Iranian reformers

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Niac / niacINsight:
Live-blogging election unrest, day two

Discussion: In The Agora, Los Angeles Times, Firedoglake, The Reaction, Verum Serum, The Daily Dish, Hot Air, Weekly Standard, BBC, Patterico's Pontifications, tehranbureau, Flopping Aces, New York Times, RealClearWorld, Donklephant, DownWithTyranny! and American Footprints

Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Iran's Day of Anguish — TEHRAN — She was in tears like many women …

Discussion: Pajamas Media, Political Punch, The Daily Dish and The Strata-Sphere

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Or, he won — New America's Flynt Leverett is the first …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Outside The Beltway and The Independent

Benjamin Joffe-Walt / TheMediaLine.org.: Iran: “Government banks and buildings were torched”

Max Boot / Commentary:

The Bright Side of Ahamdinejad's “Win” — On the principle of “the worse the better” for our enemies-and, make no mistake, Iran is our enemy-it is possible to take some small degree of satisfaction from the outcome of Iran's elections. — If the mullahs were really canny, they would have let Mousavi win.

Discussion: Associated Press, Alas, a blog, Sadly, No!, No More Mister Nice Blog, Politics and Critical Thinking, Infidel Bloggers Alliance, The Daily Dish and pandagon.net

Gateway Pundit:

OUTRAGE!... CBS: “Meet Iran's George W. Bush” (Ahmadinejad!) ... Update: Bush's Message to the Iranian People — CBS compares Iran's Holocaust denier, womens right's abuser, America-hating radical to George W. Bush. — CBS republishes vile New Republic article— Meet Iran's George W. Bush

Discussion: PunditGuy, NewsBusters.org, Wizbang Backup, Flopping Aces and The Rhetorican

Kristina Wong / Political Punch:

Iran: The View from the White House — The White House has not issued a statement expressing support for the protestors declaring the election illegitimate. But neither has anyone in the Obama administration said a public word accepting the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection.

Discussion: Philly.com, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Weasel Zippers

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Video: Iranian thugs beat protester to death in broad daylight — There's no official confirmation that he died but that's the word on the street. Best-case scenario is that they “merely” beat him into unconsciousness. Rather than give you just the video of the beating, though …

Discussion: Breitbart.tv, The Sundries Shack and Times of London

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

CNN producer: Iranian students say they're doomed if Obama accepts the Iranian election — Much depends on the meaning of “accepts,” though, doesn't it? I'm sure we'll get some patented Hopenchange drivel tomorrow about “grave concerns,” etc, but if Iran's kids are expecting The One to walk away …

Discussion: Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Gateway Pundit, Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers

Dave Price / Dean's World:
The High Cost Of Accommodation

Discussion: The Rhetorican

Dan Williams / Reuters:
Most Israelis could live with a nuclear Iran: poll

Discussion: Israel Matzav

Erik Eckholm / New York Times:

Freed From Guantánamo, Uighur Muslims Bask in Bermuda — AN OCEAN IDYLL Salahidin Abdulahat, left, and Khaleel Mamut swam in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday in Bermuda. The Uighur Muslims, recently freed from captivity at Guantánamo Bay, have been resettled in Bermuda.

Discussion: The American Scene

Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
From hell to paradise for ex-Gitmo detainees

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:

That Was Then — I thought it would be interesting to go back to then-candidate Barack Obama's speech to an AIPAC [in 2008] forum in 2007 to see what he said then and what agenda he was presenting to the voters. He had this to say about Iran: … In 2008 just after clinching the nomination he had this to say:

Discussion: Weekly Standard

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHEN IN DOUBT, BLAME OBAMA.... Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, George's Bottom Line, Greg's Opinion, Political Byline, QandO and Times of London

Haaretz:

Full text of Netanyahu's foreign policy speech at Bar Ilan — Honored guests, citizens of Israel. — Peace was always the desire of our people. Our prophets had a vision of peace, we greet each other with peace, our prayers end with the word peace. This evening we are in the center named …

Discussion: Jerusalem Post, Power Line, Israel Matzav, Mondoweiss and Commentary

Jerusalem Post:
PM lays down conditions for peace in foreign policy address

Discussion: Power Line, Patterico's Pontifications, Infidel Bloggers Alliance and Gateway Pundit

tehranbureau:

Ayatollahs Protest Election Fraud — [TEHRAN BUREAU] Mir Hossein Mousavi's, the main reformist rival to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, letter to the important ayatollahs in the holy city of Qom, asking them to protest the fraud and declare it against Islam, has sparked protests by the ayatollahs and clerics as well.

Discussion: Newshoggers.com, Grasping Reality …, American Footprints and The Strata-Sphere

Will Hutton / Guardian:

Paul Krugman's fear for lost decade — As analysts and media hailed the tentative emergence of green shoots last week, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman caused international shock with a prediction that the world economy would stagnate just as badly, and for just as long, as Japan's did in the 1990s.

Discussion: AmSpecBlog, Pacific Views and The Other McCain

Digby / Hullabaloo:

Sleeping With The Enemy — In case you are wondering why conservative rhetoric remains dominant and Democrats operate from exactly the same assumptions as Republicans, perhaps this is a clue: … There you have it. The GOP messaging expert is advising both parties.

Discussion: Open Left and The Sideshow

EU2009.cz:

EU Presidency Statement concerning the Iranian Presidential elections — The Presidency of the Council of the EU closely followed the course of the Presidential elections held on 12 June 2009 and notices Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected for the second term as the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Discussion: ATTACKERMAN and Weasel Zippers

MSNBC:

June 14: Biden, Murphy, Scarborough — Vice President Joe Biden, Mike Murphy, Joe Scarborough — MR. DAVID GREGORY: This Sunday, Joe Biden is back exclusively on MEET THE PRESS, his first appearance as vice president. Our issues: the pressing agenda at home and abroad.

Discussion: The Washington Independent and Associated Press

Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Biden Questions Vote but Sticks to Policy on Iran

Discussion: The New Republic and The Cable

Krooney / The Page:

Stimulus Concession — Biden tells “Meet the Press” that “everyone guessed wrong” on the impact of the stimulus, economy was worse off than anyone thought. — Backs away from the estimate that the funds could create or save 3.5 million jobs, instead promises 600,000 by the end of the summer.

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard, Scared Monkeys, Reason, WyBlog and Gateway Pundit