Publius Pundit posts a fascinating personal interview with the polling monitor at an Iranian polling site in Tucson. Here’s a teaser:
… He insisted that Iran is solely trying to develop nuclear power for its own use, and that the United States is trying to make Iran dependent on foreign sources for energy. He says that Iran does not want to develop a nuclear bomb, and insisted that Khamenei issued a fatwa last year declaring their development a sin. According to him, the fact that Iran’s Islamic government can declare nuclear bombs a sin and and Southern Baptists cannot is “telling.”
At one point he seemed to make fun of the fact that I called myself a journalist because of my youth. He said that the media is the fourth pillar that props up and acts as the propaganda mouthpiece of the Bush admininstration, and that I’m a part of it. He also said that it is essentially our foreign policy that causes things like September 11 to happen.
That’s right, it is essentially our fault for September 11.