Ahmadinejad Needs to Take a Step Back and a Deep Breath

Willow
I have to admit that I had never really heard of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before last week. In fact, I never really cared who the President of Iran was. I've always viewed the country as a woman hating, terrorist encouraging, greedy natured place that I never wanted to visit. I now know why so many people are up in arms about President Ahmadinejad. Not only does he avoid answering questions and yet seems to think that's a good enough way to respond to a serious allegation, but he also seems to think he is the worlds wisest and most compassionate leaders.

He also seems to think his country is immune from homosexuality. Wake up and smell the astroglide Mr. President. Homosexuality is not a country-based disease. It's not a disease of any kind therefore it has no limitations. Homosexuality is in fact just another part of life. Some people are just born different. That's the way it has always been. Of course if I lived in Iran and I realized I was a homosexual (male or female) I'd fake being straight to avoid being killed just for being who I was from birth. I think President Ahmadinejad needs to take a step back, a deep breath, pull his head out of his rear end and realize he's not talking to a nation of morons. Just because our President can't read beyond a third grade level and makes more speech errors than Elmer Fudd on Crack does not mean the entire nation has an IQ of 12.

I do have to admit that the invitation to have President Ahmadinejad speak at New York's Columbia University was an act of pure genius. It's one thing for students and Americans to hear about a leader from another country on the news or read about them in the news paper, it's another to see them make idiots out of themselves in person. I think the students who attended the speech received a wonderful educational experience. Got some great laughs off of him too. The man presents himself as this all knowing, all powerful and compassionate leader and yet manages to make Homer Simpson look like Steven Hawking. He sure talks a good game but he just can't back it up. His country, in my opinion, is going to try to build a nuclear bomb. Does that thought scare me? Not as much as Kim Jong il having one first.

However, the thought of Iran having a nuclear weapon does disturb me. What's to stop him from using it against someone he just doesn't agree with? The man hated Saddam Hussein and was probably one of the happiest people the day Saddam Hussein was executed. I have to wonder though, what about it made him happy? Was it the fact that a horrible, cruel and sadistic dictator was put to justice? Was it the fact that his long time rival was finally out of the picture? Or was it the idea that Iraq was finally going to be weak enough for him to invade and take over without any real resistance? Is that why he is "accused" of supplying weapons to Shiite soldiers which are being used to kill American, Canadian, and English soldiers?

Is that why he is pushing so hard for Iraq to be left to rebuild their country on their own? If you ask me having President Ahmadinejad speak at Columbia University was a great idea as it not only taught the students a lot but also informed me as to the kind of man President Ahmadinejad really is. I feel it also opened the rest of the country and the world up to how devious and cold hearted the man really is. Let this be a reminder to all that you can't trust everyone, especially when they are someone in a seat of power. As a wise man once said "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

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I'm 29 years old, I'm Pagan, and after much research I'd say I have to be Democrat. I love animals, reading, writing and being outdoors. I love to travel and I'm a total gamer and geek.  View profile

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  • Ahmad Baran9/28/2007

    RJT made a good point! why Ahmadinejad must be in spotlight? I don't know how many of you know that in Iran government system President is not much poweverful, he can't determine anything, its Supreme Leader and his advisors who decide about regime, presidents just come and go and some how he was just selected ad Bush was selected,... but the problem of west is not Ahmadinejad, its Iran, they don't like Iran regime, but misuse Ahmadinejad and try to magnify him and his role and his idiot looking to pave the way to even attack Iran, its what you must be carefult about I think

  • Chadd De Las Casas9/28/2007

    Actually the more I think about that absurd position, the more it strikes me as going "The U.S. has no business confiscating Michael Vick's dogs - what if he just wants some for companionship?"

  • Chadd De Las Casas9/27/2007

    Yeah, the withdrawal of American forces had absolutely nothing to do with the unadulterated slaughter of those who opposed Communism in Cambodia and Vietnam. Yeah, okay. And North Korea isn't lobbing missiles at the United States, they're just testing ones over the Sea of Japan that could reach California, yeah. Okay Mr. Anonymous, you are indeed the bastion of reason. Here's what I have to say to your notion of "they want to defend themselves": Tough. Act like human beings, then we can start discussing things - but people with concentration death camps (Kim Jong Il) and those who deny the Holocaust don't get nukes. Period.

  • Anonymous9/27/2007

    about "madman dictators" who will attack without regard for the consequences - has it occurred to you that maybe they just want to defend themselves?

  • Anonymous9/27/2007

    Chadd, I didn't say the holocaust happened to the United States, you're just trying to warp the meaning of my words. Then you go on to repeat Bush's "killing fields" nonsense; that happened in Cambodia, not Vietnam, and had nothing to do with the Vietnamese. The U.S. helped "Pol Pot" come to power, and Vietnamese troops stopped what he was doing, though the U.S. and China were against them doing that. The U.S. govt. cares about as much about people in Cambodian killing fields as they did about those killed in Rwanda or Uganda. BTW, stop trying to shamelessly promote your propagandistic articles...As for "MasterPO", obviously countries don't use nuclear weapons against other countries with nuclear weapons, because they will be obliterated. You don't see North Korea using nuclear weapons against the U.S., do you? Despite all the propaganda that they would. Whatever happened to all of Saddam's "WMD" he was going to use against everyone, anyway? You are brainwashed with all this nonsense a

  • Ahmad9/27/2007


    willow! if you mean me I must say I shall add to my comment that it wasn't about your article, however you can note I said the behaviour of USA media, I don't think you'r USA media, are you?, my comment was not related to your article and even I congratulate your comprehention of Ahmadinejad's hypocrisy however you didn't much noted other topics of his speech, and also a bit you insulted the nation too :-), when you said "ountry as a woman hating, terrorist encouraging, greedy natur" but I didn't mean those

  • Chadd De Las Casas9/27/2007

    Wow Anonymous, the Holocaust happened to the United States? My history sure appears to be off. Of course, Mr. Anonymous, the "lies of LBJ?" I don't like LBJ, he was a worthless president, but the "lies" of the consequences of withdrawal from Vietnam weren't "lies", they really happened. The "lies" are the perpetual fairy tales told by people like yourself that several million weren't killed in killing fields and ethnic cleansings as a result of that. Heck, I even did an article on that very topic.

  • Anonymous9/26/2007

    As for all this nonsense about WWII, face it: neither Iran, former Iraq, North Korea, or Syria are Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. Countries which haven't attacked anyone, and spend only a few billion (if that)per year (compared to the US's hundreds of billions) on their militaries aren't exactly "axis powers" about to take over the world. LBJ used the same "fight them over there or fight them over here" lies about Vietnam which Bush uses for Iraq, but it never came true, yet some people believe it all over again.

  • Anonymous9/26/2007

    Convenient how people like Chadd and "MasterPo" never forget anything bad which happens to the U.S. but never concern themselves with what it has done to Iran, like shooting down an Iranian civilian airliner "by accident" in the Persian Gulf, with hundreds of people on it. Unlike Iran, the U.S. would've started a war if another country sent its navy into the Gulf of Mexico and shot down an American airliner. But that's just the beginning of countless double-standards...Supporting the U.S. government by accusing people of hypocrisy is the height of hypocrisy in itself. RJT is right, people need to start thinking for themselves instead of letting CBS and the New York Post do it for them.

  • Chadd De Las Casas9/26/2007

    As I think about it - those levels of absurdity hadn't been seen since you came onto one of my articles and proceeded to blabber about much the same things really.

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