GeoffP
10-20-07, 03:49 PM
Ahmandinejidad recenlty illustrated that laissez-faire association with reality for which he's famous during an interview with Iranian news, which he also kinda controls.
Interviewer: You were supposed to visit the site of the Twin Towers, but this aroused controversy and many objections in their media. What do you think about this?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: As you know, by spreading lies and by portraying me... For example, they show my picture next to a picture of Bin Laden, or next to tanks and cannons firing and killing people. This is psychological warfare.
Unlike, say, a creepy visit to Columbia University espousing friendship, while the government parades signs reading "Death to the United States" three days before the visit. I have it on good authority (a high-up source!) that Iran never engages in psychological warfare. And it doesn't have any gay people.
9/11 has led to many significant changes. It was used as a pretext to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq. It was the reason for the killing of hundreds of thousands of people. It is only natural for us to respond in an appropriate manner.
By, say, equipping Shi'a insurgents in Iraq and Lebanon?
I wanted to visit there last year, but there was no time for that.
And also, you were told to piss off.
So I decided to visit there this year to pay my respect to the casualties and convey my sympathy to the families. I also wanted to raise several questions and express my views. I wanted to say that in my opinion, this incident is the result of the mismanagement of the world, and the result of the inhuman management of the world. Why did such an incident take place? We need to get to the root causes.
Yeah, but then people start bandying about "islamophobia".
We don't want them to turn this incident, in 20 years' time, into another false idol like the Holocaust, which they would use as a pretext to kill peoples, and prevent anybody from opening this [Pandora's] box and examining what really happened in this incident.
And there's that Holocaust denial again.
They might turn 9/11 into something sacred, and whoever does not accept it would be considered an infidel, whereas whoever accepts it would have to accept all the ensuing crimes.
Well, thank goodness that Iran doesn't have a history of executing infidels for rejecting something considered sacred.
In any event, we must express our views. I believe that this way, we would have formed cordial relations with the American people, and cold have opened this issue up for discussion. Well, this is exactly what they want to prevent.
The "they" being?
The only "discussion" Ammy's interested in is the one where the US gets blamed for the attack on them. Either way it's good for Ammy, though: blame the US or blame the Saudis, and he still wins.
Interviewer: You were supposed to visit the site of the Twin Towers, but this aroused controversy and many objections in their media. What do you think about this?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: As you know, by spreading lies and by portraying me... For example, they show my picture next to a picture of Bin Laden, or next to tanks and cannons firing and killing people. This is psychological warfare.
Unlike, say, a creepy visit to Columbia University espousing friendship, while the government parades signs reading "Death to the United States" three days before the visit. I have it on good authority (a high-up source!) that Iran never engages in psychological warfare. And it doesn't have any gay people.
9/11 has led to many significant changes. It was used as a pretext to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq. It was the reason for the killing of hundreds of thousands of people. It is only natural for us to respond in an appropriate manner.
By, say, equipping Shi'a insurgents in Iraq and Lebanon?
I wanted to visit there last year, but there was no time for that.
And also, you were told to piss off.
So I decided to visit there this year to pay my respect to the casualties and convey my sympathy to the families. I also wanted to raise several questions and express my views. I wanted to say that in my opinion, this incident is the result of the mismanagement of the world, and the result of the inhuman management of the world. Why did such an incident take place? We need to get to the root causes.
Yeah, but then people start bandying about "islamophobia".
We don't want them to turn this incident, in 20 years' time, into another false idol like the Holocaust, which they would use as a pretext to kill peoples, and prevent anybody from opening this [Pandora's] box and examining what really happened in this incident.
And there's that Holocaust denial again.
They might turn 9/11 into something sacred, and whoever does not accept it would be considered an infidel, whereas whoever accepts it would have to accept all the ensuing crimes.
Well, thank goodness that Iran doesn't have a history of executing infidels for rejecting something considered sacred.
In any event, we must express our views. I believe that this way, we would have formed cordial relations with the American people, and cold have opened this issue up for discussion. Well, this is exactly what they want to prevent.
The "they" being?
The only "discussion" Ammy's interested in is the one where the US gets blamed for the attack on them. Either way it's good for Ammy, though: blame the US or blame the Saudis, and he still wins.