Friday, June 26, 2009

Ahmadinejad

I remember the Iranian students taking the Americans hostage for was 444 days? It was a long time. I remember Jimmy Carter's inept bungling of the situation crowned with the very badly botched rescue attempt turned mass collision in a man made sand storm in the desert. I've seen film of the Iranian students leading hooded American hostages around and I could swear one of the Iranians looks just like a younger Ahmadinejad. He of course denies anything to do with it, but he is 52 now. He was 21 or 22 then.

Today I read Ahmadinejad demands an apology from Obama. It's seems to me Obama has nothing to apologize for and not only that Obama seems to be bending over backwards in his attempt to placate Ahmadinejad and the Iranian leaders. Ahmadinejad is obviously going to twist whatever we do or say into his own rhetoric to try to make this internal Iranian protest into a western influence thing.

"Do you want to speak with this tone?" Ahmadinejad responded Thursday, addressing Obama. "If that is your stance, then what is left to talk about?"

He added: "I hope you avoid interfering in Iran's affairs and express your regret in a way that the Iranian nation is informed of it."

First of all Ahmadinejad would like nothing more than for us to avoid interfering in Iran's affairs as much as Hitler wanted the world to simply appease or ignore what he was doing. The second thing is at this point, there is nothing we have to talk about. If we knew as much about Nazi Germany in mid to late the 1930s as we know about Iran now, we would have a similar situation.

Back to Jimmy Carter... with Carter and Clinton, when the doo doo hits the fan, these guys are not the kind of guys we needed as president. One of the first things that happens is they cut back on military spending. Morale goes down the toilet and training does too. Why did the rescue mission in the hostage time fail? The same reason Apache helicopters were crashing in the hills of Bosnia in the 90s. Lack of training. When Al Gore debating George W for the 2000 election, he said Bill and he cut the government by 1/3. He did not go into the details that about the only thing they cut were the military and our intelligence services. More than a bit misleading.

Bottom line is Ahmadinejad is a liar. Who knows what has really happened in the recent election and supposed landslide victory. It just seems to me if it was a landslide, why is there such massive protest. I would place Ahmadinejad in the top 5 most dangerous men in the world.