http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14912050/ Saw some portions of the interview on the evening news and haven't read the entire transcript yet...prob. will in bed tonight. Thought I'd post the link for anyone interested...if for no other reason than so we can discuss based on actual statements rather than heresay.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Sep 19 2006, 08:05 PM) [snapback]322066[/snapback]</div> Yep, read it all. His very last statement scared the heck out of me.
He is an elected official with a 4 year term and no power over Iran's armed forces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran#Government_and_Politics
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ShellyT @ Sep 20 2006, 09:09 AM) [snapback]322269[/snapback]</div> Yeah, I think the clergy really calls the shots in Iran. He's saying the right things, but he gives his intentions away when he goes to lengths to talk about "fairness" in who gets to have the bomb right after saying their program is peaceful. If the program is peaceful, he would dismiss the followup question and reiterate that they are not going to make a bomb. Instead, he talks about other countries in the region with the bomb, and the American use of the bomb. He is plowing and planting for the harvest of "fairness" the muddle headed in this country will embrace. He does the same trick with the question about the Holocaust denial; he goes to great lengths to talk about so many more people who died than just the Jews rather than addressing his prior statements. Brian Williams, who once drew a comparison with our Special Forces personnel with suicide bombers, at least mentioned that genocide was viewed as worse than general death. But he really didn't press him on these issues. Perhaps that was a sign of respect for the President of a foreign country. We know Williams doesn't know the difference between a soldier and a terrorist; how can he know the difference between a good leader and a bad one?
