Ahamdinjed will be on Charlie Rose tonight (Monday)
In a few days, you'll be able to watch it on the site in streaming video.
http://www.charlierose.com
Hopefully, he'll show just as much respect and restraint as he did President Bush. I know his statements have been foolish and idiotic regarding the Holocaust and wiping Israel off the map may sound like ethnic cleansing, when he might mean to say he wishes Israel had never been founded and they'd have settled elsewhere, but the reaction has been too much here.
He's nothing like Hitler. And the President of Columbia has yet to bully and embarrass George W. Bush that way, when he deserves it much more. If he does, then I don't mind, but it seems like cheap nationalism to me that conveniently ignores everything the US has done to Iran and it's culture:
Overthrowing PM Mossadeq to ensure oil didn't fall into Soviet hands, and installing the brutal Shah.
Reacting to the Revolution's hostage taking by funding an 8-year war through Iraq and supplying chemical and biological weapons to kill Iranians.
US funding Israel's brutal occupation, but hypocritically opposing Iran's funding of the resistance to Israeli colonization.
Bush threatening war which would kill millions of innocent Iranians with his unnecessarily Axis of Evil speech that put them on the defensive, when they were helping America hunt Al Qaeda and stood with Americans. All Bush can see are enemies, and the American media figures who continue to characterize what Iran does in purely aggressive (and not defensive) actions is only furthering Bush's bullying and a long line of cruel American policy toward the nation.
Ahmadinejad could be an ally. I oppose his oppressive measures and foolish statements, but I have more faith in his sense of reason than George W. Bush, who had all the world ready to follow him, but chose to divide and pursue the dreams of the rich, intolerant, and his own egocentric mad desire for empire.
In a few days, you'll be able to watch it on the site in streaming video.
http://www.charlierose.com
Hopefully, he'll show just as much respect and restraint as he did President Bush. I know his statements have been foolish and idiotic regarding the Holocaust and wiping Israel off the map may sound like ethnic cleansing, when he might mean to say he wishes Israel had never been founded and they'd have settled elsewhere, but the reaction has been too much here.
He's nothing like Hitler. And the President of Columbia has yet to bully and embarrass George W. Bush that way, when he deserves it much more. If he does, then I don't mind, but it seems like cheap nationalism to me that conveniently ignores everything the US has done to Iran and it's culture:
Overthrowing PM Mossadeq to ensure oil didn't fall into Soviet hands, and installing the brutal Shah.
Reacting to the Revolution's hostage taking by funding an 8-year war through Iraq and supplying chemical and biological weapons to kill Iranians.
US funding Israel's brutal occupation, but hypocritically opposing Iran's funding of the resistance to Israeli colonization.
Bush threatening war which would kill millions of innocent Iranians with his unnecessarily Axis of Evil speech that put them on the defensive, when they were helping America hunt Al Qaeda and stood with Americans. All Bush can see are enemies, and the American media figures who continue to characterize what Iran does in purely aggressive (and not defensive) actions is only furthering Bush's bullying and a long line of cruel American policy toward the nation.
Ahmadinejad could be an ally. I oppose his oppressive measures and foolish statements, but I have more faith in his sense of reason than George W. Bush, who had all the world ready to follow him, but chose to divide and pursue the dreams of the rich, intolerant, and his own egocentric mad desire for empire.
