Ahmadinejad: a lot like Bush?

[LuckyTheDog]

Iran's leader may have more in common with GW Bush than we thought:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/14/wiran14.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/14/ixworld.html

As Iran rushes towards confrontation with the world over its nuclear programme, the question uppermost in the mind of western leaders is "What is moving its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to such recklessness?"

Political analysts point to the fact that Iran feels strong because of high oil prices, while America has been weakened by the insurgency in Iraq.

But listen carefully to the utterances of Mr Ahmadinejad - recently described by President George W Bush as an "odd man" - and there is another dimension, a religious messianism that, some suspect, is giving the Iranian leader a dangerous sense of divine mission.

In November, the country was startled by a video showing Mr Ahmadinejad telling a cleric that he had felt the hand of God entrancing world leaders as he delivered a speech to the UN General Assembly last September.


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[cliss]

1. At this stage in the game,

Color me suspicious. I've been reading an awful lot about Ahmadinejad lately. The western press classifies him as a 'fanatic', 'religious firebrand', and 'strong-arm'.

My question is: what is the source of this? Is it all from western news? Or does the European press say this stuff too? How about Al-Jazeera for a little balance?

I think if Ahmadineja was NOT fanatic, Bush and his Criminal Cronies would MAKE him fanatic, just to be on the safe side.

You gotta have reasons for dropping nuclear bombs on people, after all.

[LuckyTheDog]

2. You could be right

On the other hand, if we really do have leaders on both sides who are determined to fulfill their respective versions of apocalyptic prophecy... well, we're screwed.

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3. put a bag over religious fundamentalist's heads and they are all alike