I, for one, am glad the days of Team America World Police are over. It's frankly none of our business who wins, this is an internal issue for the Iranian people and aside from wishing them the best of luck we don't really have any business picking a side and cheerleading them to victory.

What difference do you presume such actions would make, other than (presumably) making you feel better?

By the way, Obama did not say that Mousavi was no different from the other guy. I know, rhetorical license and all that, but if the rhetorical sweep of your post cannot be sustained without such mischaracterizations, maybe you should reconsider posting in the first place.

Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.
If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain.
Saadi, Iranian poet

Events taking place in Iran seems to be beyond conflict between two political parties. Show down of democracy in Iran by the government of Iran was meant to feed internal and international market that Iranian regime believes in democratic election and massive number of people elect their president while they magically bring Ahmadinejad out of election boxes as the people elected president.
Majority of population that have been depressed by this Islamic regime and have been feeling pain of dictatorship, lack of freedom, tortures of their youngsters, economic crisis created by government for 30 years, find it beyond tolerance that this progressively worsening situation continues to squeeze their life blood out of them for additional four years under Ahmadinejad and Khamenei. Iranian people are fed up and want change in their ruling body. In past few days Iranian people have been sending their strong messages to their leaders and people of the world that they want to get out of their miserable life created by Islamic regime peacefully. Massive number of people on streets who not only do not create violence but also help and rescue secret police who beat them clearly show their peaceful intention.
President Bush who has much less popular nationally and internationally sided with Iranian people when he was president. I hope our highly rated president endorses Iranians for what they want and condemns régime’s violent response to people’s peaceful needs. I wish for at least a general statement about human rights and condemnation of violence from our president. This low-risk response may open door for later more constructive relationship between Iranians and Americans. President Obama has already opened doors to Irnaian government to come forward clean. Few words of fact about human rights in Iran may be a Moral support to people who have put their lives in line of justice.

(though that may come as a surprise to some of my own loyal opponents in the comments section)

I'm always glad to have an impact.

Keep in mind, too, that I'm referring to the US government when I'm talking about keeping our damn mouth shut. As individuals, we can and ought to condemn election fraud - but for the US to do anything like that at this point would only be helping Ahmadinejad.

Iran's people deserve to hear from the most inspiring and internationally beloved American president in a generation that the violence they are enduring at the hands of their government is not just of "deep concern" to him, but "unacceptable."

Do they care? Do Iranians think Obama is the "most inspiring and internationally beloved American president in a generation"?

I agree that bringing up the nuclear issue when talking about Moussavi right now is stupidity - he really should just remain quiet on the issue until this shit gets sorted out.

And they deserve to hear Obama say that if he does finally talk with Iran's rulers about changing the behavior of the Islamic Republic of Iran, that goal will also include pushing them to grant all Iranians the same basic human rights that people everywhere should be free to enjoy and exercise without fear of violence and repression.

You think the Iranians want to hear Obama lecture them on how to run their own government? Not even liberal Iranians who oppose the clerical regime generally want this - listen to what Shirin Ebadi has said, for example.

Again, the US government ought to keep its mouth shut on this for now, wait until the Iranian government gets its shit together, then start talking again on what we want them to do, on this basis of interests.