Mein Kampf, 2006 edition

Its an interesting read from a cultural perspective. Assuming its an authentic appeal to Bush’s religious morals, it really shows what a disconnect there is between the mid east mindset of religion and politics and the west’s. Sure our politicians give the nod to their religious constituents, but its pretty well understood that its capitalism that drives this country and not religiously inspired morals. In Iran(or at least for the president), the letter seems to indicate its the other way around, with religious beliefs coming first, and commerce following.

Not exactly a deep insight, I know, but I still find the drive of the letter to be an interesting example of how our different cultures view the world.

Cheers

And if you listen to Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, who only returned to her home country two years ago after winning the prize, she’ll say the only president she has is just war hawking and not to take him seriously when he says Israel should be nuked, because Iranians don’t either.

Heh. Did you catch the part about 9/11 being perpetrated by the US government? I’m not sure if that has more to do with failure to comprehend that the USA is, at least in theory, a free society where the government has, at least in theory, no business sticking its nose into the affairs of private citizens, or if it was all the fault of those dirty Jews who control every aspect of America.

It starts off pretty sensible. Note that there are plenty of Americans with questions about 9/11, and not all of them are clearly batshit insane (eg AK Dewdney, who used to write the ‘Computer Recreations’ column for Scientific American’). And thinking that the founding of the modern state of Israel was a mistake in geopolitical terms is hardly controversial (please note this isn’t a comment on what should or should not be done today).

Of course, page 4 is delightfully fruity.

Ahmadinejad is a pretty intelligent person, and he does have some valid points in that letter – for example:

Guantanamo: The prison was established there because the treatment of the inmates would not be possible under US laws, and US laws dont apply there.

Secret interrogation facilities in Europe: Those are confirmed, and it is also confirmed that at least once an innocent person was abducted.

If Ahmadinejad questions if it is a good thing to praise freedom and ensure human rights through laws, and then ship some people out of the country so their rights are not protected by the in-country legal system anymore, his question is more than valid.

Also, Ahmadinejad questions the reasoning behind the war in Iraq. As is commonly accepted today, Iraq did not possess MWDs, and it is also commonly accepted that documents pointing out the fact that Iraq did not have them were brought to the attention of the US government, but the government didnt include them in their decision making process. This of course leads to the question why a false reason for the war was given to the public, and then one needs to question why most of the contracts and international money aids given to non-Iraqi companies for resource exploitation or rebuilding were given to US companies. No doubt US companies had a big interest in the war, and the ties between Wall Street and the White House have always been very close.

I dont want to go into detail, Ill just conclude that he has some valid points.

On the other side, if somebody openly talks about deleting another state off the world map, and then strives for nuclear technology at the same time, I have to call him a hypocrite if he tries to justify his nuclear research with civilian goals.

Ahmadinejad is pretty much playing the “you are not holier than me, so you dont have a legitimate, moral basis to attack me from” game – its to counter Mr. Bushs public wordings that always try to justify any of his actions as being done to ensure and promote freedom.

Oh well, better send in the tanks quickly then. It’s only a matter of time before he invades Poland.

Too bad we can’t intervene at all unless directly attacked. It would be cool if we could do something before things get completely out of hand.

Ug. Time to move out to my Unabomber-style Shack ™ and cower under my Protective Blanket of Fear ™. Life in the matrix is looking better and better. At least there we get a reset button every 100 years.

In response to Prussian_knight:

You might also have missed that the EU’s “conclusion” was sharply criticized by a lot of the member countries. It’s playing nice with the US and trying to cover up own mistakes.

Furthermore, representatives of Mrs. Condoleezza Rice confirmed that Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese origin, was abducted by the CIA and held in an US prison in Afghanistan because his last name appeared on a list of known terrorists. His abduction was justified by stating that he was suspected to have a false passport. As turned out later, his passport was genuine.

He was released after 5 months because the US “no longer had evidence or intelligence to justify his continued detention”. However, after being asked if the US had any evidence to hold him in the first place, the officials declined the answer. Shady at least if you ask me.

“Liberalism and Western style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed.”

I don’t care how god damn intelligent you are. But the arrogancy of that statement just throws his whole god damn speach out the freaking window, possibly intelligence too. If he was so smart, he would not just look at it from an Iran perspective of the fact that we supported the old Monarchy there to promote industry. (The U.K. did too)

Fuck that guy, fuck his government, and fuck his “nuclear power program”. I am not nuclear power expert. But you don’t need to enrich uranium or buy missles from NK for power. Especially in a country FULL OF OIL. I can’t wait until he does something stupid, he deserves an ass whoopin.

On top of that. What the hell is humanity to that sick fuck? Wasn’t it recently they started allowing women to go see Soccer Games? Yeah…humanity right there. Along with dismissing the Holocaust.

Man I could go on, but it’s pointless. It won’t stop anything.

I think we will see more of this stuff coming from crackpot Ahmadinejad, he knows he can pretty much mock Bush with impunity:

1) Bush will be on the way out in a couple of years.

2) The UN Security Council will never reach agreement on sanctions.

3) Iraq has shown that the US military wouldnt stand a snowball in hells chance if it invaded Iran (far more formidable than Iraq.)

4) World opinion is against the US. After 9/11, the US had the sympathy and backing of nearly the entire world. Still did when it wanted to get Bin Laden from Afghanistan. The handling of the Iraq situation has turned opinion completely.

RobertB, if you think that then screw you. What, you think the US government hasn’t seen that a long time ago? Why do you think we’re cleaning up Afghanistan now? Why do you think that there’s a push on US troop pullout from Iraq?
We’re getting ready, just keep watching. Oh, and don’t let your low road thinking get the better of you. You’ll be jumping for joy soon, but if you had the mental foresight to look down the road instead, you’d see what’s going on and I have no doubts you wouldn’t be as happy.

Iranian president? He could have had tenure at Colorado by now. Much more secure future.