Hypocrisy at its Best

Mahmoud wants to lay a wreath at the WTC in honor of the 9/11 victims.

I almost fell out of my chair after reading this one.



news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070920/ap_on_re_us/ahmadinejad_ground_zero



This is the same as going into a blind rampage of killing innocents and going "whoooops did I do that?" after they're all dead.



What an amazing manipulator this man is. He's better than Bush and his delusions about the war in Iraq.

Isn't it SO obvious?

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/IAEA_says_Iran_building_up_atom_programme.html?siteSect=143&sid=7851435&cKey=1179932009000

Obvious to sum up that this could be where Iran is headed..destruction. I still hope that sanctions will wake up the entire country and get off Ahmadinejad's tainted agenda but is it enough?

This is scary stuff.

What for democracy?

Here's what it comes down to. In a year, America will be electing a new president. This president will bear the biggest burden of responsibility in easing the country out of this huge mess in the Middle East. More soldiers will die, more people will die and oil prices will fluctuate like a mother. Americans will get blamed more. And for what. It's sad that our country is in this mess that's been going on for centuries. And it's substantially more tragic to see the reality that a majority in the Middle East still just can't hold their peace. Do the Iraqi majority really want democracy? Seems like for a time, Saddam Hussein had sectarian violence fractionally under control. But he was a dictator and did get his hands bloodied by killing many innocents while in the process of quelling unrest. Now that he's gone and the U.S. military has gotten involved, we might as well have painted bullseyes on our soldiers' foreheads. Look at Lebanon. After 20 years, they're at it again. Last summer's war is proof that there are more people living there who have no strength in upholding economic or social progress, undecided and at the brink of another civil war. Two years after Hariri's murder, their government is deadlocked into moving towards a tribunal that was supposed to prosecute those involved in his untimely demise. Let's see what it's government and divided people will do next to set the country back another twenty years when elections come around. As for Palestine, Hamas and Fatah just broke their truce again. So far eighteen Palestinian people died after three days of fighting and Israel was also taunted into this clash by causing an airstrike since it took place along their border. People here are so disillusioned that it's futile to hope that this eye for an eye strategy is clearly doing excessive damage. This is not a holy war. This is about power and the use of religion to proliferate propaganda over nothing more than a struggle to shift power to other selfish politicians. Sad it is that Bush and Cheney arethe worst people to carry out diplomatic missions on our behalf but one thing's for sure. These men don't have a mind sick as that of Ahmadinejad who will twist things around to benefit his agenda. Yes, his agenda. What makes me so ill that the Muslim community is blind to his politics. Doesnt anyone see his predominantly Shiite agenda? He is Shiite, people. Who doesnt see Iran's involvement in smuggling arms to Iraqi insurgents and to Hezbollah(who are predominantly Shiite) in Lebanon? Iraq's future will literally disintegrate if it fails to make a decision on its alliances. They dont have to love Americans; they just have to understand that we are not out to get them the way Iran has plans to manipulate and conquer them. I dont see Iran proactively helping to quell the violence in Iraq. Did they deploy troops trying to quell the sectarian divide? NO. This concludes my latest entry. No disrespect to Shiites on my last comment. But anyone like Ahmadinejad who has a lofty agenda and is Shiite is highly likely to take advantage of his religious status to gain votes. In the end, if Shiites continue to follow him blindly, they'll realize he is no longer the man for the masses like he originally claimed.

Iranian-American Investigated and Detained in Tehran

Esfandiari is an academic for pete's sake and visited her old mother occasionally. How more extreme do acts have to get before Iranians wake up to the reality that their government is treading into far worse levels of extremism? http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/15/iran.academic.reut/index.html

EU to criminalise Racism

So does this mean that we can throw Ahmadinejad in the slammer for all the anti zionist remarks he's made especially when he said the holocaust never happened? Wouldnt that be easy.

EU to criminalise racism and xenophobia
Thu Apr 19, 12:16 PM ET

The European Union has agreed to make inciting racism and xenophobia a crime across the 27 member states, EU diplomats said Thursday.
The agreement allows for between one and three year prison terms for public incitement to violence or hatred directed against people according to their race, colour, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin.

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Dear Mahmoud

Good gosh. If there was a contest on how to best execute a tangent it would have to go Iran's President Ahmadejinad.
After writing an 18-page letter in May to his friend G.W.B. , he writes yet another letter stating again not only the obvious in the Middle East but this time he additionally mentions that many victims of Hurricane Katrina are still suffering and that there are countless more living in homelessness and poverty. Duh?
Big Duh. Coming from the same guy who says the Holocaust never happened and that Israelis should be wiped off the face of this earth, it's hardly reasonable to accept such a comment of concern for people coming from a man of harsh words. And the tangent, WOW. The gist of his letter was to point out that supposedly the U.S. governs from coercion.
Two things. First of all, compared to Iran, the U.S. is far from governing from coercion given that people can vote without fear of persecution, and that there are hardly issues where education is stifled because of radical views of religion. And if Ahmadejinad were griping about how the U.S. wants to stifle its nuclear program, it's because there are reasons to suspect its activities. Second, how does pointing out poverty and homelessness drive to the point that the U.S. runs its government with an iron fist? These are issues of neglect at best and even if it's glaringly obvious that more could have been done in the aftermath of Katrina, his comment is so far fetched that it just reflects how he's been taking cheap shots at criticizing the U.S. on anything he can find. Bush is no phenomenal speaker either so any response on our end could very well come out looking like a petty squabble between an old married couple.