Ahmadinejad accuses U.S. of using 9/11 as pretext for invasions

Wednesday 09th April, 07:49 AM JST

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notimpressed at 10:51 PM JST - 9th April

damn, sorry for the typos.
mareo2 at 10:57 PM JST - 9th April

If americans think that not respect to human rigths is aceptable, is very few what we can do. We only can talk in a rational way, laugh, humilliate and acusations is not going to help. Maybe now looks like ignore human rights is the ease solution, but there is not shorcut, the right path is only one and the US can show the moral strenght to walk it straight. Some of we think that in the long term these is going to backfire. Even if for good reasons, inmoral actions only create a legacy of hate and shame. Dont let terrorists convice you that things like torture and invasions are the only answer to terrorism, fear and revenge dont stop violence, only perpetuate the cicle and alienate the allies.

Although military action can disrupt a terrorist group's operations temporarily, it rarely ends the threat. Provoking repression is actually a key goal of terrorism, as most of the time it increases the popularity of the terrorist cause as well as furthers the motivation for continuing terrorism. Most probably such a strategy against terrorism is not successful and cannot be as the structural causes of terrorism are not addressed: Relative deprivation that leads to frustration, aggressive foreign policy that leads to ´hate`, and psychosocial effects of globalization (as well as other causes) are not solved.

I guess that these have something to do with a "political" solution. Sorry if I sound naive to you, but after so many years we dont see much progress in Afganistan and Irak.

Good night to everyone.
notimpressed at 11:03 PM JST - 9th April

Ayway, my apologies if I sound anti american. Im not anti any person. What Im anti of is any one who asserts that they have more rights than another, or that they are somehow superior.
GrouchyGaijin at 06:50 AM JST - 10th April

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, in a speech delivered in May 2005, said that "the colonial invasion of Iraq, and the ugliest of lies of the lie machine that propagated and justified these barbarous acts will forever remain among the greatest and unpardonable crimes against humanity". The Nuremberg Charter clearly states that initiating a war of aggression is a "supreme international crime".
mike46 at 09:36 AM JST - 10th April

Ahmadinejad is a bit of a nut (Though not as big a nut as the leader of America George Bush) but he does raise several good points here.
skipthesong at 10:32 AM JST - 10th April

Im anti of is any one who asserts that they have more rights than another, or that they are somehow superior." Not true, if you really felt like that, you wouldn't be so feeling for an Islamic state such as Iran. No matter how much you turn it, when looking at their beliefs, methodology of getting things done, and what they themselves are anti/repressive, they are no better than Nazis. Try to prove me wrong, Iran is very close to a Nazi like state which is why I can't bring myself to agreeing with so many posters here. If the US was to invade a country, normal and completely innocent like India - I would feel like you.

GrouchGaijin: The Spanish PM can say what he wants, do remember who created the western hemisphere. But I like how he was able to sell you.
curlygene at 07:16 PM JST - 10th April

Ahmalidlemad also says the holocaust is a myth, right? "Though it be madness, yet there is method in't."
GrouchyGaijin at 08:28 PM JST - 10th April

Two items: Yes, Zapatero has produced better growth in Europe, after Ireland....while the bread lines in the USA lengthen, and No, H.E. President Ahmedinejad has never said the holocaust was a myth. He simply questioned (a) who did it, and (b) how many and who were the victims. He also asked, "Why, if the Palestinians were not involved, should they be punished for it?" Damn good questions! The answers are simple: (a) Hertzl's Zionists with Nazi assistance, (b) way less than 6 million, and not all of them Jews, (271,000 at Ozviecim by ICRC records) and more at other camps. So why displace innocent people? Simple, a Zionist agenda that enslaves America for "Israel's" benefit...happy now?
mareo2 at 08:32 PM JST - 10th April

Credibility and Madness.

In Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, a major three-part series on BBC TWO (at 9.00pm on Monday 10, Monday 17 and Monday 24 October), Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister, and Nabil Shaath, his Foreign Minister, describe their first meeting with President Bush in June 2003. Nabil Shaath says: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.'"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/06/bush.shtml

Schizophrenia, from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-, "mind"), is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality, most commonly manifesting as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking in the context of significant social or occupational dysfunction. Onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood, with approximately 0.4–0.6%[2][3] of the population affected. Diagnosis is based on the patient's self-reported experiences and observed behavior. No laboratory test for schizophrenia currently exists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia

Disorganized Spech
mareo2 at 08:39 PM JST - 10th April

Sorry, again.

Disorganized Spech

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=whhbPVrb5KM

If I dont convice you with these one at least maybe I can make you smile a litle.
redacted at 08:52 PM JST - 10th April

"Credibility and Madness," indeed.

The incident you quote never happened. The BBC recanted their lies:

"Bush God comments 'not literal'"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4320586.stm
mareo2 at 09:22 PM JST - 10th April

Thanks for the link. I just read it and...

A Palestinian official who said the US president had claimed God told him to invade Iraq and Afghanistan says he did not take George Bush's words literally. Nabil Shaath said he and other world leaders at a Jordan summit two years ago did not believe Mr Bush thought God had given him a personal message.

These is litle bit diferent to "The incident you quote never happened". Inded happened.

We cant say for sure, but we can guess that he got a call from Washington and fixed things for avoid a problem for the Palestine State with the Bush administration.

Just like when Greenspan...

In his book The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, Mr Greenspan writes: "I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."

And later he "clarifies 'oil war' claims".

But Mr Greenspan yesterday clarified the comments in an interview with The Washington Post, saying that while securing global oil supplies was "not the administration's motive"

Is not the first time that these kind of things happens, even to Howard in Australia to.

Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq. He said maintaining "resource security" in the Middle East was a priority. But PM John Howard has played down the comments, saying it was "stretching it a bit" to conclude that Australia's Iraq involvement was motivated by oil.

In fact, we read here from time to time J politicians say something very stupid in public and later say "that their words are out of context". But everyones knows the thrut. Only a kid can be foled by that kind of lame explanations. Well, maybe the politicians think that we are fools because we voted them, but I want to believe that is not the case, right?
mareo2 at 09:30 PM JST - 10th April

Change something very stupid by... saying what they really think.
ka_chan at 02:56 AM JST - 11th April

Just cause he's off the deep end doesn't mean everything he says is wrong. I never understood how the Germans could let someone like Hitler come into power but thanks to Bush, I understand. It just supprises me that no country wants to apply the Nurenburg standards to Bush and Iraq. In which case all the countries of the world are participants including IRAN. But then, Iran is the major benifiary or the Iraq war and talk is cheap.
redacted at 09:11 PM JST - 12th April

"Just cause he's off the deep end doesn't mean everything he says is wrong. I never understood how the Germans could let someone like Hitler come into power but thanks to Bush, I understand."

Iran, under the same Islamic theocrats ruling today, sent 200,000 children to their deaths in suicide squads in their pointless 8-year war against Iraq back in the 1980's.

Bush's fault?