Should Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ever make it to America, he will feel right at home in the faculty lounges of America's universities and the executive suites of the MSM. For this morning, he gave the Iranian version of a slogan near and dear to the hearts of the aging campus activists of the 60s and 70s who are to be found there: Make Love Not War!In segments broadcast on today's Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer continued her interview of Ahmadinejad. Quizzed by Sawyer about his country's nuclear ambitions, he replied:
"We believe that the time is now over for nuclear weapons. It's a time for logic, for rationality and for civilization. Instead of thinking of finding new weapons, we are trying to find new ways to love people."
Right on, Mahmoud! Let me to introduce you to Ms. Hilton, here -- she may have some ideas.
View video here. Be sure to check out Diane's eyebrow raise when that wild 'n crazy Mahmoud mentions his hunt for new ways to love.
Speaking of liberated women, Ahmadinejad said something yesterday that should arise the ire of America's feminists. Sawyer explained that at the end of yesterday's interview, Mahmoud complained:
"Your questions are combative. Women should not be asking tough questions about war. Women should ask about love, culture and family."Will Ahmadinejad's male chauvinist-pigism be enough to turn America's feminist left against him? Or will they overlook that minor foible in the person of a fellow Bush hater? They were able to overlook a lot more when it came to Bill Clinton, after all.
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Fits well with Hillary's Kean
February 13, 2007 - 09:53 ET by ucFits well with Hillary's Keane commenting that "we (Bill and Hillary?) could do better." And I thought she said there are no "do overs" in politics. Just how has SHE taken "responsibility" for her vote?
I would think this was another Hillary left wing conspiracy if I didn't know her economic plans will amount to slamming the Middle East oil economies. This couldn't possibly make it harder for Iraq to stabilize, could it?
Yes, Hillary, we could do better.
Interesting comment but are
February 13, 2007 - 09:56 ET by Mark FinkelsteinInteresting comment but are you sure it's on the right thread?
I thought you'ld appreciate a
February 13, 2007 - 10:39 ET by ucI thought you'ld appreciate a possible spotting of Hillary at the same Love In.
Weren't those days also about
February 13, 2007 - 10:41 ET by ucWeren't those days also about being anti-splitting atoms? Has MA come around?
Will Ahmadinejad's male cha
February 13, 2007 - 10:19 ET by Dave RWill Ahmadinejad's male chauvinist-pigism be enough to turn America's feminist left against him?
No way. Ahmadinijihad gets a pass because he, like most of the flag-waving, man-hating, hyper-sensitive hyphenated fem-gals is a rabid GWB and America-hater. So far the so-called champions of women's rights have been nearly silent in the area of Islamic malreatment of women in general.
Under Islamic law, a woman who claims to have been raped must produce four witnesses willing to attest that a rape actually occurred. Those witnesses must all be male. If she is unable to produce the required witnesses, she could wind up in prison herself.
Face it, if a law such as that existed in this country, the fem crowd would be marching in the streets, yet they cannot bring themselves to openly crticize a bunch of 7th Century backward barbarians for this hideously unfair law.
I hate newspapermen.....I regard them as spies.....If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast. -Gen. William T. Sherman
Dave - goes hand in hand with
February 13, 2007 - 10:25 ET by Chicago RepublicanDave - goes hand in hand with the deafening silence from the feminist movement during the entire Clinton Presidency.
CR: GMTA -- see last line o
February 13, 2007 - 10:26 ET by Mark FinkelsteinCR: GMTA -- see last line of article.
CR,It also goes hand-in-han
February 13, 2007 - 11:34 ET by Dave RCR,
It also goes hand-in-hand with the so-called chamions of human rights who fall all over themselves praising totalitarian dictators whose one common trait is that they hate this country and everything it represents. Diane Sawyer is one of these, as is Jihad Jimmy. It amazes me that these supposedly intelligent people are unable (unwilling?) to see the reality of people like Castro, Chavez, Assad, that North Korean gargoyle and the rest of the tin-horn crowd. Yet many of these same people have no reservations about comparing GWB to A. Hitler.
I wonder how they sleep at night.
I hate newspapermen.....I regard them as spies.....If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast. -Gen. William T. Sherman
Very interesting. I just i
February 13, 2007 - 10:32 ET by BAUHAUSVery interesting.
I just imagined how a conversation about Iran's nuclear programm would look like between Hillary Clinton and MA.
But that leads to another interesting question, can a female US president convince Middle Eastern dictators to step down and let democracy establish in their countries.
Clinton/Hilton 08 "I'm in to win with Tinkerbell!"
Only if Hillary wears a heads
February 13, 2007 - 10:41 ET by ghotifunOnly if Hillary wears a headscarf and looks at AM with Bette Davis eyes...
Sure this guy has proposed wi
February 13, 2007 - 10:43 ET by truth_missileSure this guy has proposed wiping Israel off the map and is complicit in supplying men and weapons killing American soldiers today in Iraq, but to hell with that - what's on his iPod?
Iran
February 13, 2007 - 11:16 ET by pbanks7Just in time for Valentine's day, from Adolph Eichman-Inajihad:
"we are trying to find new ways to love people." How do I love thee, let me count the ways...
In the London Times: (The link has a nice picture).
Iraqi insurgents using Austrian rifles from Iran
Austrian sniper rifles that were exported to Iran have been discovered in the hands of Iraqi terrorists, The Daily Telegraph has learned. More than 100 of the.50 calibre weapons, capable of penetrating body armour, have been discovered by American troops during raids.
The guns were part of a shipment of 800 rifles that the Austrian company, Steyr-Mannlicher, exported legally to Iran last year. The sale was condemned in Washington and London because officials were worried that the weapons would be used by insurgents against British and American troops.
Within 45 days of the first HS50 Steyr Mannlicher rifles arriving in Iran, an American officer in an armoured vehicle was shot dead by an Iraqi insurgent using the weapon. They said 170 American and British soldiers had been killed by such weapons.
Ya know, the Austrians, who refused to put any of their own troops in harm’s way.
Ignorance is bliss. It's easier to repeat a mindless slogan than to do some actual research.
Iran buying them? Legal. Me
February 13, 2007 - 11:22 ET by sarcasmoIran buying them? Legal. Me or thee importing (much less buying) even-one? Illegal. Good thing we have all these laws & all this big government "protecting" us! As Large-L Libertarians sometimes remark to eachother, "If you're happy & you know it, clank your chains!"
JMR
MA
February 13, 2007 - 11:56 ET by iveseenitallAhnadinejad's "love in" with Diane was quite digusting. But I think she secretly enjoyed it. The guy's got real "machismo", doesn't he, Diane?
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal