That's a much more substantitive response than Charles's silly post about emperors deserved. Of course he knows that perception matters, but as I stated earlier he and others won't let an Iranian revolution get in the way of petty potshots at Obama.

Have you been following politics for long? Of course perception matters. If Mr. Obama bigfoots this he hurts the good guys and helps the bad guys. Is that what you'd like?

Perception is reality. Welcome to Obamaland where presidents, emperors, and supreme leaders need not wear any clothing.

Obama is not a pundit, nor even chancellor of Germany. Words have to be chosen carefully in his position.

I doubt that calls that Mousavi is a German puppet of Angela Merkel will help the ruling party's cause, but we know unfortunately what being called an "American" puppet would do to consolidate Ahmadinejad's power. And if your priority is actually rooting for change in Iran instead of rooting against the Obama Administration, ZIII would be able to see this.

We have no way of knowing that. And we wouldn't be responsible for it in any event.

Assuming we were really interested in an answer to the question, we might ask the Kurds about that, for example.

James, if the U.S. had not intervened in Iraq, just as many Iraqis would have died under Saddam.

We have no way of knowing that. And we wouldn't be responsible for it in any event.

The world would be a more dangerous place and Saddam or one of his gentle sons would have been in charge.

Probably right, at least in the long view.

The German Chancellor spoke out on the topic, in favor of the people. One would think the leader of the free world would have more to say than what Obama has said.

Obama is not a pundit, nor even chancellor of Germany. Words have to be chosen carefully in his position.