IT'S AS IF BUSH (!!) GOT ELECTED - AT 9:10 A.M. ET:  To no one's surprised, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose claim to Divinity rivals that of a certain member of the Disciples of Wright, has been overwhelmingly reelected by the people, or the vote counters, of Iran.  The Iranian Al Gore is apparently not pleased:

TEHRAN —President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won Iran’s presidential election in a landslide, officials of Iran’s election commission said Saturday morning. But his main rival, Mir Hussein Moussavi, had already announced defiantly just two hours after the polls closed on Friday night that he had won and charged that there had been voting “irregularities.”

“I am the absolute winner of the election by a very large margin,” Mr. Moussavi said during a news conference with reporters just after 11 p.m. Friday, adding: “It is our duty to defend people’s votes. There is no turning back.”

COMMENT:  Look, it's all over but the counting, and counting isn't even necessary.  Such a revolting Western concept. 

Now the Obama administration has run out of excuses for delaying a coherent policy toward Iran that has any chance of success.  He will be dealing with the same players as before the election, and they have proved unyielding.  And yet, if North Korea is any example, the response to Iran will probably be one more compromised UN resolution, forgotten as soon as it's issued.

June 13, 2009