Did I just hear a CNN reporter saying Ahmadinejad didn't mean "wipe Israel off the map" literally?

[NNN0LHI]

Ahmadinejad was talking politically, not militarily Aneesh Raman the CNN guy just said.

I just woke up from a nap and was wondering if I was still dreaming or did I really hear that?

Don

[malaise]

1. Several DUers pointed out that he merely meant

the Zionist state. Everything else was spin.

[TheWraith]

2. Who cares what he meant?

The guy's an outlandish windbag.

[NNN0LHI]

3. The media had been painting the statement as he wanted to attack Israel

Why would the media be changing that now is what I wonder?

Sounds like we are about to reach out to the Iran government for a favor in Iraq to me.

Don

[pretzel4gore]

4. hey there....

walk a mile in the guy's shoes before you condemn him. we here at DU look at our 'side' in global geopolitics with anger that at times borders on rage! how can you expect an iranian patriot who has seen the west literally fukk his country again and again (just the fact the US sold weapons to both sides of iran/iraq war, not to mention installing the shah puppet government; including iran (which is really a nice little country) in the notorious 'axis of evil' and so on...on top of all this, remember that the 'facts' we are told are perverted by the mass media, which doctors them, or fabricates them or hides them according to whatever their bushgoof wants....if president ahmadejine (sp) is an outlandish windbag, then junyer bush is rush limbah's fart in an crowded elevator aka america!