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October 31, 2004
Why many Iranians like Bush

There are two important explanations for the surprisingly high support of Iranians for Bush:

1) Iranian regime, via its fully controlled media, has been bashing Bush's agenda and character since he included Iran in the "Axis of Evil." They've even screened Fahrenheit 9/11 a few months after its release. Given the middle-class Iranians' distrust and resent for the Islamic government propaganda, they always have the tendency to oppose to whatever the media says. So if Iranian TV hates Bush, people will love him. Like they fell in love with Khatami eight years ago, when the entire regimes apparatus was supporting Akbar Nateq-noori, his opponent.

2) A dozen of LA-based satellite TV channels are still widely available almost in every house in both rural or urban areas. They are mostly founded and run by pro-monarchy Iranians who left Iran after the revolution and have been totally disconnected from the reality of today's Iran. Almost all of those that have political content-- many have no talk shows or news programs -- strongly support Bush and promote the idea that should Bush be re-elected he would bring down the Islamic regime and "liberate it." It's obviously a catching idea among less-educated and the youth who have a hard time dealing with the regime's strict control over their social lives.
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100,000, No that number is way off. It's more like 10,000. About 600,000 civilian deaths were directly caused by Hussein. There's no way the US public would ever support an invasion of Iran....moral, financial, and logistic support is about all one could ever hope for. The US public can't even stand a death toll of 1,100 US troops in Iraq, and Iraq would be Disneyland compared to battles with Iran's revolutionary guards. Americans liked it much better when we were cowardly launching cruise missles from 1,000 miles away and killing civilians on video monitors and aspirin factories.
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