It's so typical that the hypocritical Repugs in Washington (and usual GOP lite Dems ) who were and continue to be gung ho in wanting to threaten Iran with bombing are now the cheerleaders for the Iranian people.

Dishonesty is second nature to these deceitful dolts.

As Howie Klein at Down With Tyranny explains this repeat of historical disgrace.

"Earlier today I mentioned about how Eisenhower handled the Suez War in October, 1956. Simultaneously he was dealing with an uprising of Hungarian students that turned into a full-fledged revolt against the Soviet Union. Hungarian partisans took on Soviet tanks in the streets of Budapest and, for a few days, it looked like they actually won their country's freedom. Through Radio Free Europe the U.S. appealed to Hungarians to rise up and fight the Soviets, going so far as to give tactical advise on resistance-- and not of non-violent kind. Radio Free Europe, a right-wing, C.I.A.-supported enterprise funded by U.S. taxpayers, certainly led Hungarians to believe that if they kept struggling, NATO would come to their rescue. Neither Eisenhower nor NATO had any such intention and when Russia came down on the Hungarian partisans like a ton of bricks, killing several thousand and driving over 200,000 into exile... crickets.

"...in 1991 when President George H.W. Bush vociferously encouraged the Shias of southern Iraq to rise up against Saddam Hussein, insinuating that the U.S. would intervene on their behalf. Bush personally broadcast incitements on the Voice of America"  'There is another way for the bloodshed to stop: And that is, for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside and then comply with the United Nations' resolutions and rejoin the family of peace-loving nations.' The CIA also maintained its own Saudi-based radio station, the Voice of Free Iraq, which exhorted the Shi'a to rise up against Saddam.

"They did rise up-- and were mowed down. At least 100,000 Shi'a were slaughtered and over a million became refugees. Bush, who was more concerned that Iraq might disintegrate, to the advantage of Iraq, didn't give it a second thought. The Defense Secretary, Dick Cheney said also favored letting the Shi'a go down to slaughter. He announced 'it would be very difficult for us to hold the coalition together for any particular course of action dealing with internal Iraqi politics, and I don't think, at this point, our writ extends to trying to move inside Iraq.'

"Yesterday another hypocritical right-wing shithead, Indiana lunatic fringe Congressman Mike Pence, demanded that President Obama give the same kind of false hope to Iranians struggling against Ahmedinejad.....

"I wonder if Pence, a clueless and viciously partisan obstructionist and the worst kind of political opportunist vomited up from the depths of our political system is aware that his sudden hero, Mr. Mousavi, a socialist, was Ayatollah Khomeini's hand-picked Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1981-1989 and before that was the Foreign Minister. Although Pence might feel a bond with him for having ordered the mass executions of 30,000 political prisoners, he's best known in Iran for lots of things that would turn Pence's hair white, especially subsidized food coupons and oil coupons and converting private enterprises into government controlled institutions. He was an anti-American hardliner while he was in office and a huge supporter of making trouble in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley."

Glenn Greenwald at Salon weighs in with his commentary about these hypocrites, like John McCain:

"I'm going to leave the debate about whether Iran's election was "stolen" and the domestic implications within Iran to people who actually know what they're talking about (which is a very small subset of the class purporting to possess such knowledge).  But there is one point I want to make about the vocal and dramatic expressions of solidarity with Iranians issuing from some quarters in the U.S.

"Much of the same faction now claiming such concern for the welfare of The Iranian People are the same people who have long been advocating a military attack on Iran and the dropping of large numbers of bombs on their country -- actions which would result in the slaughter of many of those very same Iranian People.  During the presidential campaign, John McCain infamously sang about Bomb, Bomb, Bomb-ing Iran.  The Wall St. Journalpublished a war screed from Commentary's Norman Podhoretz entitled "The Case for Bombing Iran," and following that, Podhoretz said in an interview that he "hopes and prays" that the U.S. "bombs the Iranians."  John Bolton and Joe Lieberman advocated the same bombing campaign, while Bill Kristol -- with typical prescience -- hopefully suggested that Bush might bomb Iran if Obama were elected.  Rudy Giuliani actually said he would be open to a first-strike nuclear attack on Iran in order to stop their nuclear program.

"Imagine how many of the people protesting this week would be dead if any of these bombing advocates had their way -- just as those who paraded around (and still parade around) under the banner of Liberating the Iraqi People caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of them, at least..."