You misunderstand me, Bobert. I have no particular liking...or disliking...for Ahmadinejad. As far as I'm concerned he's just another Third World politician who's been appointed as the latest propaganda poster boy by the US media, that's all.

Prior to him you had Krushchev, Fidel Castro, Mao, Noriega, Kadaffi (you can spell that one several different ways), Saddam, Osama Bin Laden, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Daniel Ortega...on and on and on.

The US government figures that its public is so stupid that they must be given symbolic "bad guys" like characters in a TV western to motivate them to support conflicts with other countries. So they always look for one. It helps a great deal if he has swarthy skin, facial hair, and a name that doesn't sound American!!! (Gasp!)

If his name is unusual enough to American ears that the average American can't even pronounce it or spell it...so much the better. He MUST be evil, right? He must be the next "Hitler", a "clear and present danger" to the entire world, and he must be hunted down and "taken out", even if you have to kill a few million of his countrymen to do it.

That's what I'm referring to. I'm not defending Ahmadinejad himself. I'm attacking another sad example of totally exaggerated and hysterical war propaganda that is being built around Ahmadinejad by the western media.

I've seen it way too many times before. Same old tired, stupid routine we've seen ever since I can remember.

Surely you recall when the world couldn't risk the continued existence of Muammar Quadaffi, don't you? Or Fidel? Or Mao?

Two of them are still here, the world has survived just fine in spite of it, and you don't hear much about them now, because the empire is seeking objectives in other areas than Libya and Cuba at the moment.