Saturday, June 20, 2009

Non sequitur attack

Khameni (or is it Khamen'i?) gave a speech that hits the usual points in condemning the US:
1) We made a mess of Iraq
2) We're actively making a mess in Pakistan
3) and, of course, Afghanistan
but then:
4) in 1993, Hillary's husband, some guy named Bill, had the ATF storm the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX and burn 80 people alive.
The Iranian bloggers reported that he said something along the lines of:
"during the time of power of the husband of the current Secretary of State, these Democrats burned 80 supporters of the Davidian Cult alive."
The speech was posted on some Twitter thing, then translated and then re-posted by Andrew Sullivan, but its hard to imagine that someone made it up or mis-translated it that badly. They even pointed out other mis-translations from the speech. I wonder who wrote that in the speech. Are Iranians and the world community familiar enough with Waco that it can just be casually mentioned? I forgot about that until this. Maybe a good example of American hypocrisy in condeming a contested election result would be to bring up an example of a contested election in America?! I wonder if they thought about mentioning 2000, but then realized that no one got violent over it, and then searched for an instance of violence during a Democratic presidency. Ah, Waco! Perfect.

4 comments:

  1. Wasn't Waco started when a cow kicked a lantern over?

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  2. Waco was the first thing I though of after the House voted on a resolution condeming the actions of the Iranian government. The resoltion itself was insane considering most of the news at the time came from Twitter.

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  3. Also isn't Twitter fucking awesome.

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