Ahmadinehjad in LaLa Land
Letter to the Lake Charles American Press:
Dear editor:
It was an interesting picture on page 10 of the September 26th edition of the paper, which showed a Sayyad-1 surface to air missile displayed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to commemorate the 27trh anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted from 1980 to 1988 and had over a million casualties on both sides.
What made this especially interesting were the remarks made by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinehjad at the National Press Club in Washington just two days before. His statement that “For hundreds of years, we’ve lived in friendship and brotherhood with the people of Iraq” was in complete denial of that “Sacred Defense Week” celebration commemorating the eight year war that cost so many lives. His words, which he has to know are lies (or he is a complete dumbbell,) ignore all those deaths and those fatalities that occurred during the 500 years of fighting with Iraq during the Ottoman Empire.
Some of his other statements at the Press Club were just as amazing and completely out in “left field.” Does he really think that we are so uninformed that we believe his untruths? Does he really think that his own people believe him?
He also said that “Our people are the freest people in the world.” What about the dissidents that are executed and the academics who are jailed. Women are treated like second class citizens and newspapers are shut down and their journalists imprisoned. Are they all part of the “freest people?”
Ahmadinejhad’s statement that “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country” would be a joke if it wasn’t so sad. You don’t have gay and lesbian people when you send them to prison and kill them if they are found out.
And when questioned about Iranian weapons showing up in Iraq, he answered “No this doesn’t exist. Well, again, this too is one of those distortions by the press.”
The Iranian President has learned his lessons well from the likes of Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler and the use of “The Big Lie.” He thinks if you say it often enough people will believe it. But that doesn’t work in the world of today with instant 24 hour news and the internet. I think the only people he has truly convinced (and pulled the wool over the eyes of) is himself and his henchmen.
Dear editor:
It was an interesting picture on page 10 of the September 26th edition of the paper, which showed a Sayyad-1 surface to air missile displayed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to commemorate the 27trh anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted from 1980 to 1988 and had over a million casualties on both sides.
What made this especially interesting were the remarks made by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinehjad at the National Press Club in Washington just two days before. His statement that “For hundreds of years, we’ve lived in friendship and brotherhood with the people of Iraq” was in complete denial of that “Sacred Defense Week” celebration commemorating the eight year war that cost so many lives. His words, which he has to know are lies (or he is a complete dumbbell,) ignore all those deaths and those fatalities that occurred during the 500 years of fighting with Iraq during the Ottoman Empire.
Some of his other statements at the Press Club were just as amazing and completely out in “left field.” Does he really think that we are so uninformed that we believe his untruths? Does he really think that his own people believe him?
He also said that “Our people are the freest people in the world.” What about the dissidents that are executed and the academics who are jailed. Women are treated like second class citizens and newspapers are shut down and their journalists imprisoned. Are they all part of the “freest people?”
Ahmadinejhad’s statement that “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country” would be a joke if it wasn’t so sad. You don’t have gay and lesbian people when you send them to prison and kill them if they are found out.
And when questioned about Iranian weapons showing up in Iraq, he answered “No this doesn’t exist. Well, again, this too is one of those distortions by the press.”
The Iranian President has learned his lessons well from the likes of Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler and the use of “The Big Lie.” He thinks if you say it often enough people will believe it. But that doesn’t work in the world of today with instant 24 hour news and the internet. I think the only people he has truly convinced (and pulled the wool over the eyes of) is himself and his henchmen.
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