Not just pretty faces, eh?

U.S. Retracts July 4 Invites It Gave Iran

That was Wednesday.

On Thursday, Canada's Minister of National Offence, Lawrence Cannon, "toughens stance" toward Iran and withdraws Canada Day invitations.

The US has found (created) abundant reasons to resume the war of words with Iran. And the Canadian trained monkey did likewise.

But get this:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had authorized the July Fourth invitations several weeks ago despite the lack of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran, but no Iranians had accepted, according to State Department spokesman Ian Kelly.

"No Iranians had accepted." That could mean the Iranians RSVP'd a refusal. Is America (and that includes Canada) merely saving face?

Obama is "deeply concerned" about the Iranian election (he's also "deeply concerned" about N. Korea. Cannon, therefore by definition, is also "deeply concerned".

Funny thing, though - Obama in the video looks like a pussycat with a tummy full of canary, barely hiding his satisfaction at how well the US backing of Mousavi has played out in terms of the civil unrest required to expedite America's favourite pastime - regime change.

Have you noticed that an unusual number of fantastically pretty young women are meeting strange fates in countries on which the US is spying? First the "journalist" Saberi - a former Miss Dakota - arrested in Iran and ultimately dispatched back home to the US, then the two "journalists" caught sneaking into N. Korea.

And now, of course, we have the flawless martyr "Neda." The Times tells an interesting story. She wasn't with her father, as other news items have said, and she wasn't holding a freedom sign. She was with her music teacher and having got stuck in traffic on the way to the main protest site, got out of the car to get some air and was summarily shot.

Not by a police officer, but by a plainclothesman. Then along comes an anonymous driver who offers to take her to hospital but instead drives into a cul de sac, reportedly causing a delay long enough to prevent her getting timely treatment.

Hmmm... weren't we told we saw her die in the video? The Vancouver Sun's headline could be spilling the beans about that blurry, choppy video - Neda' death video puts pressure on Iran.

Her motivation in going to the protest was that she heard a report the election was fraudulent. If there had been no such report circulated, would there have been a protest at all? We'll never know.

But my gawd, when even the National Post (guilty of spreading the malicious badges lie about Iran) says the election was not fraudulent, you've got to think maybe it wasn't.

According to FOX, Neda's identity "could not be verified". Even so, they had somehow obtained the ubiquitous, glamorous photo (posted - anonymously? - on the internet), and somehow knew that her burial had taken place in complete privacy.

Now Iran has arrested some British Embassy employees, accusing them of having a role in the unrest. We'll have to wait for that story to develop to find out how devastatingly pretty they were.

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PSST - wanna see Hillary Clinton as a pretty young woman? How do you suppose eyes that big and dark managed not to have a speck of light in them?