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Mousavi says he won't end challenge

victor | 11:07 p.m. June 25, 2009

Where were we when Bush "won" the election in 2000? We were not in the streets. We should have been. I hope those in Iran have a better sense of freedom that we did.

Poor Victor | 11:52 p.m. June 25, 2009

still reverting back to the 2000 election. We will all be in the streets, literally if your Obama pick has his way with free spending and his shaky foreign policy. My Victor holds his head high. He is no liberal thank goodness.

bill | 10:28 a.m. June 26, 2009

Poor Victor,

Is that Mir Hossein Mousavi who is holding his head high? "He is no liberal thank goodness."

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Idahoan | 11:18 a.m. June 26, 2009

President Bush did win the election in 2000. Gore tried to steal it. Bush had more votes in Florida than Gore.

bill | 1:18 p.m. June 26, 2009

One to many chads. However, it was the judges that put Bush in the oval office. In Iran it's God rather than judges who decides the fraudulent election. Now, if you have God's ear then? But, for me and my house we will count the vote. "We the people... rings truer to me than God told me so.

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Iranian security forces are seen sitting near the parliament building Wednesday in Tehran, Iran. Riot police in Iran's capital fired tear gas and bullets in the air Wednesday in clashes with protesters who converged on a square near the parliament building in defiance of government orders to halt demonstrations demanding a new presidential election, witnesses said.

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