Saturday, November 26, 2005

Don't Do Us Any Favors

The message is partly correct, saying that Bush should be tried for war crimes.

However, the problem is that it's coming from the wrong messenger.

I've already stated that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is basically a coward, to say nothing of being a total neophyte in his job. He has demonstrated this by dismissing concerns that he may very well have been one of the "students" holding our embassy people hostage back in 1979, as well as his most recent rantings calling for the annihilation of Israel.

However, by cheaply stoking nationalist fervor, he is also undermining the legitimate cause of holding Bushco accountable for their conduct prior to and during Iraq War II. He is stupidly playing into the hands of the right-wing media demagogues in this country who enjoy lumping together everyone with varying degrees of concern about the war into a group with the convenient tag of "America haters."

How naively pathetic of him. If he isn't going to first renounce his own demagoguery and then bring any legitimate concerns about the war to the United Nations (and allowing the IAWA to actually look at what's going on with Iran's nuclear capability would help also, as mentioned in the Yahoo News article), then he should just continue to bow and grovel to the mullahs who pull his strings and otherwise shut up.

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