DALLAS, Texas Half a billion dollars might not be a lot to give away in this post-Wall Street bailout era.

However, it’s still enough to jump-start your own uprising in an oil-rich Middle Eastern nation from afar.

Ask the last Democratic-controlled Congress.

Under then-President George W. Bush, this Congress approved around $400 million for the CIA to destabilize Iran.

According to ABC News, the campaign would include “propaganda broadcasts, placement of negative newspaper articles, and the manipulation of Iran’s currency and international banking transactions.”

You know, the same kind of crazy stuff that the British pulled on a certain group of North American colonies some 200-plus years ago.

And from what free speech advocate Steve Weissman can tell, the current Democratic president, Barack Hussein Obama, hasn’t cut the purse strings on this multi-million dollar campaign.

“The tea leaves are murky, but they suggest that, so far at least, Team Obama remains wedded to the Bush-Cheney-Abrams destabilization of Iran,” Weissman wrote in a piece called “Who’s Diddling Democracy in Iran?”

Which leads one to wonder, are U.S. taxpayers still funding the civil unrest seen in the Islamic Republic?

Weissman thinks probably so, judging by Obama’s actions prior to Iran’s presidential election on June 12.

Obama had the chance to signal to Iran’s ayatollahs that the U.S. would cease its support of terrorist groups operating inside Iran, he said.

The chance came in late May when the Jundallah aka “Soldiers of God” claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that took the lives of 25 people and wounded another 125 at a Shiite mosque in Zahedan.

Obama’s response?

Well, the Jundallah is still not designated as a terrorist organization by the State Department.

Note: the Jundallah is known to raid Iran from Pakistan with financing reportedly sent by Iranian exiles in the West and Gulf nations.

And while U.S. officials flatly deny funding the Jundallah directly, they still routinely keep in touch with its leader who, coinicidently, trafficks heroin via Afghanistan.

Then, there’s that whole propagnda campaign.

Leading up to Iran’s presidential election, it was going on to promote candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, the main rival of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ken Timmerman, the executive director of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, said that the Persian Service of Voice of America (VOA) totally backed Mousavi.

(This right-winger heavily involved in the Iranian expatriate community added that he favored boycotting the election along with other dissident groups.)

Moreover, Timmerman noted that the U.S. government had to be in support of Mousavi since his “revolution” was “colored” as the election ended and the civil unrest began.

“The National Endowment for Democracy has spent millions of dollars during the past decade promoting ‘color’ revolutions in places such as Ukraine and Ser