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Why do people care so much about a country that is an entire decade away from anything close to a nuclear program? Also, why do we attack the president of this country? He is not popular, or at any rate he's just as popular as he was when "elected" mayor of Tehran when nobody showed up, and he isn't the major player in the game. Why isn't more attention being paid to the clerics who control the country and the elections? My theory is that those who control the coffers of the news media spin it this way so that the jingoists the world over can get an excuse to hate the Iranian people rather than the minority of clerics responsible for the oppression that really is the issue in the country.


  • you bet your life, mine and my daughters

    Born: 28 October 1956 Birthplace: Garmsar, Iran Best Known As: President of Iran, 2005-present In August of 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in as the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Trained as an engineer, Ahmadinejad entered the political arena after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. He joined the Revolutionary Guard and, according to some reports, worked covert operations in the 1980s during Iran's war with Iraq. After four years as a provincial governor (1993-97), Ahmadinejad became a lecturer at Tehran's University of Science and Technology. He kept his hand in politics and was elected mayor of Tehran in 2003. He was not well known internationally until June of 2005, when he won Iran's presidential election. It is widely held that Ahmadinejad's support comes in part from those who oppose U.S. foreign policy, and early on President Ahmadinejad's rhetoric matched his promises to defy the U.S., most notably on the issue of Iran's plans for nuclear technology. In October of 2005 he made headlines and earned a United Nations rebuke when he publicly opined that Israel should be "wiped off the map." In December of 2005 he described the Holocaust as a "myth" in statements subsequently condemned by the United States and its allies.

    Soon after he took office, questions were raised about Ahmadinejad's role with the radical student organization that seized the U.S. embassy and held its 53 occupants hostage from 4 November 1979 until 20 January 1981; some former hostages claimed he was one of their captors, a claim denied by Ahmadinejad... In December of 2005 it was reported that Ahmadinejad had ordered a ban on "western" music, a move reminiscent of Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 ban on music. ---taken from answers.com--- not the kind of guy i want to have nukes. all it takes to make a durty bomb is a stick of TNT a vial of plutonium and a breeze. should we underestimate islamic nuts again? they have all the components to make a bomb they even have a delivery system a torpedo that travels at 1000 mph.

    66%  Voted for by bob2314, Dwn.
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  • Hacks and media glorification
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is much of a patsy as George Bush, Stephen Harper, Tony Blair, they're all hacks, and the media is portraying it all in a light of manipulated good and evil, the good being west, rational, logical, won't take no crap. And the east being irrational, religious fanatics, emotional. The problem with that viewpoint is that they truly don't care what the enemy stands for, except the issues that make them our enemy. They are doing it the same way on there side, the west being the irrational ones. Nobody wants to change their stance because both sides don't want to be friends, so ignorance played between each other will soon cause more hatred and war, the media don't know shit, it's all 99% what they don't know. If they really wanted to know they could, but the top dogs would have them fired, there's an image to keep up here, they want war and misunderstanding.
    Voted for by christopheshea.
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