The Illusion Of Legitimacy

(note to anonymous commenters: lots of name calling here)...

In this week’s issue of Time, Adam Zagorin, a staff correspondent, posed ten questions to new Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he arrived in New York when Bush was lobbying the U.N. to try and stop Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, as described by the magazine (the “ten questions” segment is a recurring feature for the magazine, for anyone who doesn’t know this…one week they posed ten questions to Al Franken, one week it was Newt Gingrich, etc. Last week, they posed ten questions to John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group, which was actually interesting I thought).

(By the way, concerning the nuclear issue…given Bushco’s arrogant incompetence, I don’t trust them to assume that they actually know what they’re talking about on this issue. I think Bushco is trying to create another “tempest in a teapot” like it did with Iraq ultimately. However, I certainly don’t trust Iran either, and you’re about to find out more from me on that.)

Anyway, here is the first question from Zagorin and the first answer from Ahmadinejad.


Q: Some Americans claim you helped hold them captive at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran more than 25 years ago. You have said that you did not participate, but if you had a chance to speak to those former hostages now, what would you say?

A: What is important is to think about the real root causes of those events. It’s not important who those students were. What was important was that it was an outcry of our repressed people. We cannot be happy when we see others suffer. But you see, sometimes, in order to gain your rights, you have to do certain things.

“It’s not important who those 'students' were,” huh?

You arrogant little bastard!

Our embassy personnel were doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to harm you and your fellow thugs (and by the way, contrary to what Zagorin said in his softball question, I believe that you WERE there based on what I’ve read from other sources that I consider to be more reliable than this one). While our people were being held for 444 days, you and your pals circulated some rumors that our embassy people were spies. Of course, you’re not repeating that now because, like you did then, you know that that’s full of crap.

So you were mad at the Shah huh? I don’t blame you for that, because he was a mean, decadent guy, and Jimmy Carter should have realized you clowns would do something like what you did when he allowed the Shah to be treated at a U.S. medical facility. However, Carter had the same luck with that as he did with just about everything else in his presidency, unfortunately. Regardless, that’s no excuse for lawlessness on anyone’s part.


Speaking of Carter…hey, that sure was a genius move by you guys and Khomeni to undercut Carter and help Reagan, wasn’t it? You sure got a better deal, didn’t you? He played you guys like saps by supporting Hussein in your war against you in the '80s (of course, you also went along in the “arms for hostages” deal, so I’ll admit that you got a measure of revenge).

I don’t know if this has occurred to you or not, but do you realize that, when you and your countrymen illegally took our people hostage, you unleashed a cycle of violence and reprisals in your area of the world that is still going on (including the current war in Iraq, and the sickest aspect of it is that it ultimately is working to your benefit, which, in Bush’s stupidity, he didn’t foresee)?

“Mr. President” (a ceremonial title as far as I’m concerned, because the mullahs will always have the real power in your country), don’t pretend to be such a cultured, civilized individual. Your country still supports terrorism and probably always will (the REAL bin Laden connection was with you all along, not Hussein). However, because Iran is formidable economically and militarily (and since we’re going the way of the old Soviet Union in terms of being overcommitted militarily overseas), you must be treated with kid gloves and not receive the treatment you deserve (this may come as a shock, but I actually somewhat agreed with Bush’s “axis of evil” statement, but what galled me was the fact that he stupidly said it the way he did and gave aid and comfort to our enemies for propaganda purposes).

Besides, is it really better for your people in Iran now with the mullahs in power as opposed to the way it was under the Shah? Or is that a question you can even seriously answer lest you fear for your life?

Take your smug, sarcastic little butt and put it on the first plane out of here, and since we’re such an “evil” nation, don’t bother to ever come back. You’re a coward and a criminal, and because you helped kick-start the Reagan presidency and the conservative ascendancy (which, admittedly, probably would have happened anyway), you’re an idiot as well.