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October 28, 2005
This is why I love Politics
This article reaffirms comments by Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that Israel be wiped off the map. I got to the end and just laughed.
Officials and analysts in Tehran have played down the remarks by Ahmadinejad, a former member of the hardline Revolutionary Guards and traditional religious conservative.
They have said the comments did not mark the start of a new, more aggressive stance toward Israel and that Tehran was not seeking confrontation with the West.
Now let me see if I got this straight, because I can easily get confused. The President of the country advocates wiping Israel off the map. No other President has done something like that during the history of the United Nations. Iran has never made such a blatantly hostile statement before yet we are to believe that the comments did not mark a new, more aggressive stance toward Israel or the United States. That is a joke, right? And does anyone actually believe that? As the cliche asserts, "Sometimes you can't make this stuff up."
Posted by Chip Spear at October 28, 2005 7:23 PM