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Originally posted by Spanky
["It would seem that they are not the results that President Ahmadinejad would have hoped for," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said when asked to comment on the vote.
"I think, despite the regime's efforts to cook the books in terms of an outcome, they seem to have been thwarted in that regard," he said. ]
The above comments seem to imply that the US is happy with the outcome because Ahmadinejad is not. Why comment at all on who should be happy?
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And so what? Say "no comment" and let the leakers and the media write the story? Have the story be DOS thinks they can work with the newly elected local leaders rather than a pretty mild (and exceedingly obvious) "Ahmadinejad's folks didn't do well" together with a little jab that indicates that DOS thinks that Iran is, in some ways, a functioning democracy? That's what you'd prefer? Think about all of the implications of complete silence. I think this was pretty close.
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