Sunday, February 11, 2007

Our Dear Embattled Leader supports Ahmadinejad

It has long been a truism in government that when your domestic position is shaky you pick a fight with another country. The purpose of this is to unite your countrymen, in a flurry of nationalistic fervor, against a common outside enemy. As this article from the LA Times shows, Our Dear Embattled Leader is generously providing Iran with the "outside enemy" without being asked, and this is a concern to the majority of Iranians who were hoping to get rid of Ahmadinejad when his failures became too much for the electorate. Instead ODEL is providing the necessary props to the current Iranian leadership.
But many Iranians say the international dispute over Iran's nuclear program has become a rallying point for a president who otherwise would be facing substantial public dissatisfaction over soaring inflation, rising unemployment and widespread censorship.

This has been a source of frustration to Iran's reformists, who dealt the president's party a blow at the polls in local elections in December but complain that the Bush administration's threatening rhetoric has pulled the rug out from under them.

"You are harmful for us. We try to tell politicians in Washington, D.C., please don't do anything in favor of reform or to promote democracy in Iran. Because in 100% of the cases, it benefits the right wing," said Saeed Leylaz, a business consultant and advocate of economic reform and greater dialogue with the West.

"Mr. Ahmadinejad tries to make the international situation worse and worse. And now with the U.N. Security Council resolution, he can say, 'Look, we are in a dangerous position, and nobody can say anything against us, because the enemy is coming into the country.' Exactly like George W. Bush in Washington, D.C. They are helping each other. They need each other, I believe."
Mr. Leylaz has failed to notice that this is simply a case of one group of right wing whackos supporting another group of right wing whackos. And Our Dear Leader's history of giving aid and comfort to our enemies, whether they be Osama, Pooty-Poot or Ahmadinejad, makes these actions normal behavior for the Texican Twit.

// posted by montag @ 1:03 PM
Comments:
President Ahmadinejad's real views are summarized on this website: ahmadinejadquotes.blogspot.com
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 4:01 PM
 

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