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DayDreamer
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posted August 14, 2006 03:30 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Iranian leader launches blog aimed at international audience

Ohhh nooo!!! More propaganda

We can't let him get away with speaking any truth. That is not what we have in mind for the rights of free speech!


Robert Tait in Tehran
Monday August 14, 2006

Guardian

His political approach has become a byword for populism and yesterday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad endowed it with a hi-tech dimension by launching his own weblog.
The hardline Iranian leader's debut on the international blogosphere came in the form of a 2,300-word tract that asked readers to decide if the US and Israel were trying to start a new world war. Mr Ahmadinejad, who has identified himself with Iran's army of poor people, also described his humble origins in an impoverished rural village. His entry into the mass ranks of bloggers marks the latest step in a concerted effort to communicate directly with ordinary Iranians over the heads of the elites. Mr Ahmadinejad's first year in office has been distinguished by a series of old-fashioned mass rallies throughout Iran aimed at wooing mass public support.

His resort to more up-to-date means appears on the presidential website at ahmadinejad.ir. His first missive is available in English, French and Arabic - as well as Farsi - suggesting he is also aiming at an international audience.

It includes one of Mr Ahmadinejad's bluntest statements yet on the conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group, Hizbullah, in Lebanon. "Do you think that the US and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another world war?" He invites readers to vote yes or no.

In an autobiographical passage, the president attempts to explain the personal circumstances behind his radical Islamist political beliefs, including his fervent desire for Iran to pursue nuclear technology in defiance of western opposition.

"During the era that nobility was a prestige and living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village," he writes, labelling himself the son of "a hard-bitten toiler blacksmith".

He ascribes his rapid rise to academic excellence which enabled him to finish 132nd out of 400,000 in university entrance exams.

He also describes reading newspapers with the help of adults while in first grade at school, from which he learned how Americans in Iran had been granted immunity from the country's laws by the shah. "I realised that Mohammad Reza [had] attempted to add another page to the vicious case history, which was the humiliation and indignity of the Iranian people versus Americans."

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006

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DayDreamer
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posted August 14, 2006 03:33 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's blog

Here's some more propaganda for you
http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/


quote:
In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

Oh Almighty God, please, we beg you to send us our Guardian- who You have promised us- soon and appoint us as His close companions.

During the era that nobility was a prestige and living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village of Garmsar-approximately 90 kilometer east of Tehran. I was born fifteen years after Iran was invaded by foreign forces- in August of 1940- and the time that another puppet, named mohammad Reza – the son of Reza Mirpange- was set as a monarch in Iran. Since the extinct shah -Mohammad Reza- was supposed to take and enter Iran into western civilization slavishly, so many schemes were implemented that Iran becomes another market for the western ceremonial goods without any progress in the scientific field. Our Islamic culture would not allow such an infestation, and this was an impediment in front of shah and his foreign masters’ way. Thus, they decided to make this noble and tenacious culture weak gradually that Iran be attached strongly to the west as far as its economy, politics, and culture was concern. After the implementation of this policy and the unreal and outward of upswing, the villagers began to rush to the cities. Upon the enforcement of the land reform, the status of the villages became worst than the past and villagers for earning some breadcrumbs, they were deceived by the dazzling look and the misleading features of the cities and became suburban and lived in ghettos.
My family was also suffered in the village as others. After my birth -the fourth one in the family- my family was under more pressures ...


Written by Mahmood Ahmadinejad at 04:12


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lioneye68
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posted August 14, 2006 03:44 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"Oh no" is right - more people will be brainwashed to commit hate crimes.


Beam me up anytime now, Scotty.

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DayDreamer
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posted August 14, 2006 03:52 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh like what Bush and his posse have done to you.

Yikes!

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lioneye68
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posted August 14, 2006 05:13 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't recall Bush telling me it was my DUTY as a Westerner to DIE in the act of killing all non-Westerners.

In fact, I don't recall Bush telling me to do anything at all. I'm Canadian, remember?

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lioneye68
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posted August 14, 2006 05:27 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
DayDreamer - You're so lost.

You scare me, knowing that you're a Canadian citizen. That sure doesn't help me sleep at night, knowing that you and many who think just like you are being coddled and nurtured in my own home and native land. And yet, you are clearly sympathetic to the most inhumane, hate fueled social movement we've ever known in modern times. So biased are you that you can't even recognize right from wrong. You only see the wrongs of America and Israel - that's it. To all other wrongs, your are utterly blind.

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jwhop
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posted August 14, 2006 05:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
So, is this your ideal of a rational person?

Do you subscribe to this little terrorist jerks stated policy to wipe the nation of Israel off the map.

Just to be clear. It's not going to happen. There's a far more likely scenario that if this idiot terrorist madman attempts to bring on the Madi and starts a war with Israel that when the dust settles it will be Iran and Syria which have disappeared.

Glad to see you so balanced in your views. Glad to see you don't support Islamic terrorists and/or Islamic terrorist regimes...though one would never know it by what you choose to post here.

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DayDreamer
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posted August 14, 2006 05:30 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I am a Canadian citizen, born and raised.

What's scary and upsetting is your close mind.

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pidaua
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posted August 14, 2006 05:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
DayDreamer thinks the biased comments and thoughts from the Iranian President (the same one that believes that the Holocaust was a lie) are truth.

Sure they are, truth to him.

YET, she believes anything out of a Westerners mouth is a LIE.

I agree with Lioneye, I have YET to see, hear or read about Bush instructing people to kill Muslims for redemption.

I have yet to see where our government asks young boys to strap bombs onto themselves and attack all icons of Muslim tradition in our country.

This weirdos interview on 60 minutes was a joke. He is in need of a serious reality check and a team of shrinks.

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jwhop
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posted August 14, 2006 05:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's not an answer to my questions...it is however, your usual style of avoidance for questions you can't answer without making yourself look foolish.

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lioneye68
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posted August 14, 2006 05:46 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I will never support an ideology that has at it's core the anhilation of a people.

I will never high-five in response to a successful suicide bomb or infidel beheading.

I will never give one iota of respect the death cults who perpetuate this evil.


So, yes I would agree, on these points I indeed do have a closed mind.


At least I can still tell right from wrong.

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