Should Bush Go to Iran?
This is a fascinating article where Ahmadinejad invites Bush to an Iranian university.
There are some days that I would like to be President of the United States, and this is one of them. The article indicates that the Iranian president was ‘blind sided,’ which I highly doubt, but then reflects near the end on Iran’s relationship with the US:
Iran and the U.S cut off diplomatic relations in 1979 after Iranian militant students seized the U.S. Embassy and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
Hilariously, the article does not mention that among those Iranian militant students was, by many accounts, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad himself, and not just as an observer, or a mere participant, but as an advisor! Of course its the same man.
The great irony is that here you have a man that had no problems dispensing with diplomatic courtesies when it concerned actual embassy grounds inviting Bush not to an embassy, but merely a university! Does anyone think for a minute that if the Iranian government couldn’t respect diplomatic ground rules in 1979 that a chief transgressor of those rules, now the President of that government, will prevent Iranian elements from attacking Bush?
If I were President Bush I’d tell Mr. Ahmadinejad exactly where to put his offer: where the sun don’t shine.
The glaring differences between the two countries couldn’t be highlighted any more distinctly then pointing out that ‘harsh treatment’ and insults American style means using the same ‘free speech’ platform Ahmadinejad himself wanted to use to criticize Ahmadinejad while in Iran ‘harsh treatment’ means taking hundreds of Americans at our embassy hostage for more than a year.
I swear we live in a mad world.
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