It seems that the conservative media has spun Iranian President Dr. Ahmadinejad into a wildeyed warmonger bent on destroying all things Jewish and American. I have heard him state that he only has issues with the leadership and military aggressions of those two nations. I have also heard him say that he has no quarrel with the 'citizens' of either America or Israel.
The transcripts of his speach at Columbia Uni. show him to be an educated, measured, responsible leader, and much more diginfied than Pres. GW Bush could ever hope to be. Both Bush and Ahmadinejad are capable of committing horrible atrocities, but so far only Pres. GW Bush has proven that to be true.
Nuclear power is coming to Alberta, Canada. Should we assume Steady Eddie to be a threat to Washington DC? Ahmadinejad has not given any indication of having 'dastardly ambitions' than Alberta's Premier has. I don't think we need to worry about either one of them in that regard.
See for yourself - even just read the highlights of Ahmadinejad's speach.
Transcript of Ahmadinejad's U.N. Speech -
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6107339
"My Dinner with Ahmadinejad" -
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1665579,00.html
Some highlights:
- Iran has not violated any of the rules of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ahmadinejad says. He has proposed a multilateral uranium enrichment program with different nations, and can't understand why no one has taken up his offer.
- The U.S. and Iran can play a positive role together in Iraq. "If the U.S. withdraws from Iraq, good things will happen," he says. "I believe that the Iraqi people can rule themselves."
- In the Middle East, Ahmadinejad says the world must allow the Palestinians to decide their future for themselves: "That is the human solution to sixty years of instability." He refers to Israel only as "the Zionist regime" and does not mention the Holocaust.
- Ahmadinejad claims there are thirty newspapers published in Iran that are opposed to his government, citing that as evidence of press freedom in Iran.
- In answer to a question about how he viewed Hitler's legacy, he says, "I view Hitler's role as extremely negative, a despicably dark face."
- He notes that Americans don't understand Iranian history, saying that the movie 300 — with which he seems intimately familiar — was a "complete distortion of Iranian history." Iran, he says, has never invaded anyone in its history.
The transcripts of his speach at Columbia Uni. show him to be an educated, measured, responsible leader, and much more diginfied than Pres. GW Bush could ever hope to be. Both Bush and Ahmadinejad are capable of committing horrible atrocities, but so far only Pres. GW Bush has proven that to be true.
Nuclear power is coming to Alberta, Canada. Should we assume Steady Eddie to be a threat to Washington DC? Ahmadinejad has not given any indication of having 'dastardly ambitions' than Alberta's Premier has. I don't think we need to worry about either one of them in that regard.
See for yourself - even just read the highlights of Ahmadinejad's speach.
Transcript of Ahmadinejad's U.N. Speech -
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6107339
"My Dinner with Ahmadinejad" -
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1665579,00.html
Some highlights:
- Iran has not violated any of the rules of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ahmadinejad says. He has proposed a multilateral uranium enrichment program with different nations, and can't understand why no one has taken up his offer.
- The U.S. and Iran can play a positive role together in Iraq. "If the U.S. withdraws from Iraq, good things will happen," he says. "I believe that the Iraqi people can rule themselves."
- In the Middle East, Ahmadinejad says the world must allow the Palestinians to decide their future for themselves: "That is the human solution to sixty years of instability." He refers to Israel only as "the Zionist regime" and does not mention the Holocaust.
- Ahmadinejad claims there are thirty newspapers published in Iran that are opposed to his government, citing that as evidence of press freedom in Iran.
- In answer to a question about how he viewed Hitler's legacy, he says, "I view Hitler's role as extremely negative, a despicably dark face."
- He notes that Americans don't understand Iranian history, saying that the movie 300 — with which he seems intimately familiar — was a "complete distortion of Iranian history." Iran, he says, has never invaded anyone in its history.
