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ORIGINAL: SeargentDave

I will not get foul mouthed or ignorant but isn't he is inviting hardship for his countrymen, who will endure it in the name of their faith? Using someone's faith to further a personal agenda is not acceptable. He is smart in preparing for the final war between Christians and Muslims because it is coming sooner than anyone expects. His actions, however will lead to the deaths of millions of people as did Hitlers.

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ORIGINAL: Michaelat92544

I'd like to admire him with a 9mm bullet to his forehead and a few cruise missiles in Tehrani suburbs.

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Domiguy: How can you admire a man who doesn't allow the education of his people but has the wealth to make it happen...you have had some other posts...Mexican Illegals..and others...do you happen to be a member of any of the above mentioned groups?  It is one thing to have an opinion it is another to blindly adhere to a belief that cannot be backed up 

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:Lucky Dog: The "capitalist theocracy" what the heck does that mean?   You think denying the Holocaust is a valid point?  Thanks for admitting you don't believe that planes took out the Towers either, that explains a lot of where you are coming from.  And there was certainly an international outcry over his conference.  And you ignored my point that his slate lost power in the recent elections.  Not a sign of support from the people.  On the American scene, David Duke compares, he was even at his conference.  I thank God we don't have any politicians taken seriously like Amanjinidad here....  Pax Irania?  Where is that?  Hundreds of millions of people live prosperous peaceful lives under the protection of the USA, where does Iran provide any such thing?

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Macheal I'd like to admire him with a 9mm bullet to his forehead and a few cruise missiles in Tehrani suburbs.

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Meatcleaver: Like all leaders that pretend to be strong, they seldom are and are really covering up their weaknesses. Take a note of Bush. The epitome of a weak character.

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

No he hasn't. If Iran doesn't negotiate over its nuclear policy you can bet that if the USA doesn't destroy Iran's nuclear programme, Israel will, with tacit agreement of the USA.

He hasn't taken advantage of his country's enemies weaknesses, his enemies have been charitable in the extreme in fighting an unnecessary war (Iraq) and getting themselve bogged down and allowing its client state (Israel) in the middle east to also fight an unnecessary war that has strengthened its enemies.

Iran's economy isn't doing well and with the threat of international sanctions it will do less well.

Meanwhile there is unrest and demonstrations in the universities. The majority of the country being under 25 and not born when the Iranian revolution occured. They want modernisation and freedom. Ahamdinejad has to decide between clamping down or liberalizing. Heads the opposition win, tails he loses.

Like all leaders that pretend to be strong, they seldom are and are really covering up their weaknesses. Take a note of Bush. The epitome of a weak character.

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ORIGINAL: NeedToUseYou

Basicly, he says fuck the rest of the world and opinion and does what he thinks is best solely from the perspective of his country.

I can respect that.

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ORIGINAL: DCWoody

Few things to throw out there, of the candidates that were banned from running, the majority were merely wackos who you wouldn't have got even 1% of the vote, there was a complain about two of the bannings as those two people did have support, and the council reversed their bans.
To say Iran isn't a democracy is to say that the UK isn't because in theory the monarch could refuse to confirm the elected PM if they didn't like him/her.Which doesn't happen.

Also, Mahmood is a moderate in his country, the bad human rights, treatment of women etc were inherited, left overs from the (usa & uk supported dictator) Shars reign. Mahmood has famously (and when I say famously, I mean within Iran, cos I'm damn sure it wasn't reported in the west) been making/changing legislation to make women more equal.

Third thing.....USAs biggest Arabian allies?
Saudi Arabia, dictatorial monarchy.

Notable Arabian democracies?
Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Palestine. All coutries which would prefer it if the western world stayed the hell out of middle eastern business.

Do you think the west is doing a good job of encouraging democracy?

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ORIGINAL: humiliationsissy

Whenever i read posts like some of these, it makes me afraid that i live in a democracy.  I think to myself, "They are allowed to vote?  They don't have a freakin clue!" 

BTW, the word "admire" or any form of the word should never be used in the same sentence as "Ahamdinejad."

Signed,
A Very Jewish Sissy

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ORIGINAL: Voltare

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

No he hasn't. If Iran doesn't negotiate over its nuclear policy you can bet that if the USA doesn't destroy Iran's nuclear programme, Israel will, with tacit agreement of the USA.

He hasn't taken advantage of his country's enemies weaknesses, his enemies have been charitable in the extreme in fighting an unnecessary war (Iraq) and getting themselve bogged down and allowing its client state (Israel) in the middle east to also fight an unnecessary war that has strengthened its enemies.

Iran's economy isn't doing well and with the threat of international sanctions it will do less well.

Meanwhile there is unrest and demonstrations in the universities. The majority of the country being under 25 and not born when the Iranian revolution occured. They want modernisation and freedom. Ahamdinejad has to decide between clamping down or liberalizing. Heads the opposition win, tails he loses.

Like all leaders that pretend to be strong, they seldom are and are really covering up their weaknesses. Take a note of Bush. The epitome of a weak character.

Excellent post.

I do believe two planes hit the towers, as much as I believe anything I see live on network television (I was watching the live report of building one, when the second came crashing in.)  I don't believe people like Bush and his congressional cohorts are bright enough to manage some super-secret world order.  Having seen first hand from Headquarters Marine Corps (as a lowly clerk) people who can't even keep track of the locks in their doors simply aren't capable of the kind of co-ordination required.  Oh, and I believe the German records, thousands of tattooed arms, photographs of stacks of human hair, and millions of witnesses to the holocaust.

I will grant that Ahamdinejad's charismatic in a way.  So was Hitler.  I will grant that he's doing relatively well in a high stakes gamble.  I know Hitler was too, and if the US hadn't gone head to head with Hitler, there'd have been a very different European Union: one that speaks German, and pays with a Mark.  It doesn't mean I have anything against Germans, either.  But in the end, the louder you yell that you're going to start a war, the more attention you attract.  The more bombs and tanks you buy to prove it, the faster you end up in it. 

Anyone ever stop to wonder why there are several Muslim countries that don't feel such high anti-Western hostility?  Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar - the list goes on.  Yet, one could say the same for Mahmoud's buddy, Chavez.....

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

But international politics isn't the Wild Wild West.  We've been doing exactly what you wrote in your first sentence--and what has that brought us?  A failed war and a worthless currency.

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ORIGINAL: NeedToUseYou

Basicly, he says fuck the rest of the world and opinion and does what he thinks is best solely from the perspective of his country.

I can respect that.

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ORIGINAL: NeedToUseYou

Respecting someones intentions, isn't the same as respecting their views. I can without conflict respect a persons honesty, and at the same time disrespect their views on issues.  I can't respect someone that is dishonest. So, from that view I'd say he's at least is honest. That would seem to be one step up from what we are dealing with in our own politicians.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

LaM, why are you wasting brain cells on politics

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ORIGINAL: Voltare

Briefly, I've never been to New York.  For all I know, the Statute of Liberty is just a model, and the real thing fell into the sea during David Copperfield's magic tricks. 

I do know that one day the towers were up.  Then planes crashed.  Then they came down.  I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but even Dubya could figure that out.  People with rather absurd theories will always get attention, because they present us all with what we want - a possible theory where the very worst didn't really happen, like in Evil Dead when they don't want to believe their friend is now a raving zombie.

I'd suggest that Hitler made the same idiot mistake as Napoleon - got stuck attacking Russia in the winter.  Never get stuck in a land war in Asia.  Having said that, without the invasion of Normandie, Hitler would still have been able to exploit the vast resources of Europe to invade a Russia that was already wavering the following year.  Such are the theories our friends, Woulda & Coulda through history.
 
You might want to do a little more reading in this area.   Hitlers biggest mistake was going to an ass kicking contest without his  boots.  He was out manned, outfought and out gunned.  After Stalingrad was never able to mount a successful offensive.
 


It's interesting to note that the Muslim countries who hate us, also get paid by us.  We still buy Iranian oil, and Venezuelan oil
for that matter,
When Hugo Chavez sugested that he might quit selling oil to the U.S. shotgun Dick went on nationwide tv (meet the press with Tim Russert) and announced if Chavez would not sell us oil we would go take it.

much like the snooty French waiter who spits in your soup, over-charges you, and insults you on the way out the door. 

I saw an interview with the King of Jordan on BBC, and I have to say, he didn't look like a whore. 

http://www.kingabdullah.jo/homepage.php

If anything, the sort of common sense and reason he displayed could teach our own leadership a thing or two about ethics and religious tolerance.  Perhaps we wouldn't have so many people calling for the destruction of the US if we didn't spend so much time and money trying to manipulate other nations like puppets on strings.
I could not agree more.
thompson