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I can't believe that someone who was presumably conscious for the last decade could want the President to be more of a good-natured idiot. The US isn't some rink-a-dink little country, its words and actions are actually important. When the Bush administration publicly talked about supporting Iranian reformers it directly lead to those reformers being tortured. What you want will directly lead to Iranians being hurt just to appease some know-nothing Americans who couldn't tell the difference between freedom and tyranny if their lives depended on it. Which, of course, it never would; for a case in point notice how Tehran is clamping down on students and academics not ignorant hicks.