Iran’s president says Bush pushing for war

[Freedom_from_Chains]

Seems reasonable to me.

President Bush’s policies in the Middle East are “moving the world toward war,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, maintaining that Iran was a peaceful nation that merely wanted to be left alone to “stand on its feet.”

“The U.S. government thinks that it’s still the period after World War II,” Ahmadinejad said in an interview with Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News,” a mindset that led Bush to believe that he “can rule, therefore, over the rest of the world.”

But “the world has changed,” he said. “Nations are awakened now. They want their rights — equal rights, and fair ones. The time for world empires has ended.”

The diplomatic confrontation between Washington and Tehran dominated Tuesday’s session of the United Nations, which was to hear from both presidents.

Ahmadinejad, who was to address the United Nations later in the day, did not attend Bush’s address Tuesday afternoon. Bush likewise avoided seeing Ahmadinejad during his New York visit, in line with the U.S. policy not to engage with the Iranian government until Tehran abandoned its attempts to enrich uranium, which Washington believes is the first step toward Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon.

“Why is the U.S. government so against our people?” Ahmadinejad, speaking through a translator, asked in the interview with NBC News. “They speak of war so easily, as if it’s on their daily agenda. We never speak of war.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14911603/

[Doctor_J]

1. Pretty hard to argue with that statement

Oh, wait. Il Dunce' said today "my country wants peace".

His country does, but he wants to kill, kill, kill. At least Ahmadinejad distinguishes between us and our government.

[maxsolomon]

2. "We never speak of war"

we just supply the tools to conduct it.

don't like bush, don't like ahmadinejad.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

3. So can I assume that you take as the gospel what our

government says about Iran, especially in light of all the oil they are setting on top of?

[maxsolomon]

7. oh hell no

can't BOTH of them be lying douchebags?

they're both politicians, so yes, i believe they can both suck.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

8. Unfortunately there is some truth to your position. LOL

[bigdarryl]

4. He makes better sense than the idiot in the whitehouse sad to say...

Countries now think all this country want to do is invade other countries.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

6. Does to me too

He definitely demonstrated in the Mike Wallace interview that he is better educated and read than Jr. is.

[IndianaGreen]

5. Bush is pushing for war, indeed he is!

And he is using the same lying script he used in the run up to the Iraq war.