O my god! I just realized who President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is!

[Bucky]

I was reading about Iranian President Ahmadinejad's latest impetuous outburst. At first he'd say irreverant things about his enemies and everyone would get up in a lather about how reckless, how insane, how dangerously fanatical he is. But as time went along, he kept on saying these loony things (no holocaust) or pointless things in an effort to pander to people who don't really like him all that much (telling Germans to quit feeling hostaged to war-guilt). And it's bothering people less and less.

Why are we bothered less by his lunacy? Is he getting less looney? Hardly.

No, he's just as knuckleheaded as he's always been, but his extremist attention-grabbing outbursts are getting tiresome and they don't really affect anything. He's still got these superrich rightwing sponsors running the country so he's still got his PR platform to say this loopy stuff, but it really doesn't matter. He keeps a small group of "true believers" riled up by his spoiled brat routine, but mostly people realize they can ignore him and deal directly with the conservatives who keep him on as an amusing pet.

And that's when it hit me. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is like the Iranian version of Ann Coulter!!

[lonestarnot]

1. Or bushitler.

[EFerrari]

2. What a terrible choice: is he AC and BH?

Omigod.

:rofl:

[lonestarnot]

5. OMG

:rofl:

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. No, that's unfair to Bush.

And it's not often you'll here me say that.

But bad as Bush is, he hasn't questioned the holocaust, his supression of political opponents it mild, he's not a theocrat, he doesn't support the death penalty for homosexuals, he pays at least lip service to women's equality, etc.

Ahmadinejad is arguably one of the fifteen worst national leaders in the world; Bush is pushing even to make the worst thirty or forty.

Anne Coulter is arguably a reasonable comparison, although he's even battier than she is.

[BringEmOn]

17. Bush hasn't questioned the holocaust?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3686.htm

So it was most apt that the only question Bush was heard to ask during his Auschwitz tour actually dealt with Holocaust revisionism: "Do people challenge the accuracy of what you present?" he asked his guide, The New York Times reports. This might seem a rather bizarre question at first glance -- but then, Bush has a personal stake in the cultivation of historical amnesia. His own family fortune was built in part by a long and profitable collusion with the Nazis -- an ugly story oft told here, and raked up again by Newsweek Poland during the presidential visit.

[lonestarnot]

18. Don't think for one minute, that if he could get away with genocide in the

U.S. he would attempt it.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

20. What do you mean by "he"

I think that, while unpleasant, Bush isn't genocidal; Ahmadinejad *almost* certainly wouldn't perpetrate outright genocide in the US, but I suspect probably would go for mass murder there if he could get away with it.

[lonestarnot]

21. bushitler and ahmadinejad

[Bucky]

22. I hope you realize how immature it looks to keep writing "bushitler"

I think you lack depth perception. If you run around calling everyone you disagree with evil, people eventually quit taking you seriously. That's Bush's problem. I don't think it should be yours.

[long_green]

3. Going by appearances, I thought he was the husband from

"The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wasn't it pointed out that he was an Embassy hostage taker?

I know they had a photo of a young man who looked a lot like him. He's denied it though.

Any religious fanatic can be dangerous if he puts his ideas into illegal actions - like Bush.

[Bucky]

7. Nah, that was a rumor about him. He has an alibi & the other guy fessed up

They did look a bit alike, and he was a leader in the student movement that took over the embassy, but he was in the faction that wanted to storm the Soviet Embassy instead. Imagine how different THAT would have made the world!

[Canuckistanian]

4. Or Jesse Helms

An inflammatory, racist, faux-religious nutcase.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Everything I'm likely to hear, as an American citizen, about Iran, or any

other country _Bush wants to destroy, is likely to have been created to mold my perception long ago. It will have gone through god knows how many changes and probably have very little resemblance to the truth.

Things that are emotionally charged, and likely to trigger knee-jerk reactions are probably bogus, or missing vital details. It's a shame to swallow any of the _Bush-created bilge.

[Bucky]

10. Bush's people really aren't all that omnipotent & Ahmednejid *is* wacko

The White House is good at spin, but they really aren't very good at creating events to got their way. When Iran's president ir reported as saying loony-assed crap about Israel, you can believe that he's really saying loony-assed crap about Israel--it's not "Bush-created bilge" that extremists in the Muslim world want to use Israel as a rallying cry to bolster their own power. His is one voice they can not filter.

But you are right that we're not getting the full jist of his speech when he says these crazy things. What's getting filtered out is his economic critiques of the US involvement in Iraq. This is stuff you know from reading DU, however. He's fanatical on Israel and kee-ray-zee on women's rights, but he does speak for the most conservative elements in the Iranian "Council of Experts" who really run the country when he speaks.

Iran's solution for Iraq is not really better for the Iraqis than the US-neocon solution. Reprisals against Sunni leaders, Ba'athist loyalists, and Kurdish nationalists would be really ugly if Iran fills in the vaccuum that the collapsing American puppet regime will undoubtedly leave. It's a real lose-lose situation for the Iraqis. The more independence they have from Iran's mullahs, the better off Iraq will be.

[Ghost Dog]

14. Hiya Judi Lynn

:smoke:

[Judi Lynn]

16. Hi, there! Fancy meeting you here!

I've thrown up more worthy items than this thread!

[Little Star]

8. He has nothing on *ush! n/t

[BayCityProgressive]

9. He is a sick

fucking bastard that's for sure. Very disheartening that the Iranians voted this guy in. And please, can we have any thread where we can say a foreign leader is an asshole without bringing Bush into every single one to somehow justify the other country...

[Donald Ian Rankin]

12. Only in the sense that he's immeasurably worse.

See my post #11.

[muntrv]

13. Boy there's a couple for ya'!

:puke:

[bridgit]

15. Ahmadinejad is a nut job, and yeah-yeah we got'em too, but...

Ahmadinejad is a nut-job :crazy:

[applegrove]

19. No. The nut has backdrops. He is Bush.