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Wednesday, 24 May 2006
If only this was truly his response .
My favorite part:
Thank you for your invitation to accept Islam. As you know, I
am a Christian. Throughout your letter you accuse me of being a bad
Christian, which leaves me puzzled as to why you think I might make a
good Muslim. However, before you proselytize outside your own country,
you might want to address the condition of the Islamic faith in Iran.
I am genuinely sorry to hear that so many Iranians, especially the
young, have lost their faith because of their profound disillusionment
with theocratic clerical rule. Apparently, there is no way for them to
distinguish between their religion and your rule. That is
understandable since you claim there is none, that your authority comes
directly from God and you are ruling in his name. It is no wonder you
disdain “liberalism and Western style democracy.” Under it, you would
be answerable not only to God, but to the Iranian people, to whom God
gave certain “unalienable Rights” that you and the mullahs have chosen
to ignore. How ironic that, in the name of God, you deny your people’s
God-given rights.
When young
Iranians survey the way in which the clerical regime has enriched
itself and impoverished the country, and enforced its rule with such
harshness, what are they to think of this “God” who rules over them in
this way? As a result, they abandon their religion and, unfortunately,
many turn to drugs.
Your answer to
the abuses under which the Iranian people live is nuclear “power.”
Since your country is so richly endowed in oil and natural gas
reserves, this is a strange answer. In fact, you so often denounce
“lies” in your letter, I am surprised you would engage in such a
whopper yourself. No country has conducted a 20-year clandestine
program to develop nuclear power for peaceful domestic uses. The reason
is that it is perfectly legal to do so in the open. In fact, we would
support your nuclear power program, if that is what it was. However, as
everyone outside of Cuba, Syria and Belarus knows, you are developing
nuclear weapons.
Read the whole thing.
May 24th, 2006 at 9:19 am
[...] I have an idea for President Bush. Translate this letter and send it to Ahmadinajad. I will send it to an Iranian friend and get it translated to persian myself. (h/t The Sandmonkey) Thank you for your invitation to accept Islam. As you know, I am a Christian. Throughout your letter you accuse me of being a bad Christian, which leaves me puzzled as to why you think I might make a good Muslim. However, before you proselytize outside your own country, you might want to address the condition of the Islamic faith in Iran. [...]
May 24th, 2006 at 10:09 am
SM, there are massive protests against the regime, right now, in Iran
will you plz cover it if possible?
May 24th, 2006 at 10:12 am
A Letter From President Bush to Ahmadinejad
… there is an excellent case to be made for initiating an imaginative diplomatic overture to the Iranian people, not the idiotic despots of the regime.
May 24th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
I loved the last paragraph of the letter… It’s so true… Anyways AJ doesn’t have to worry about Israel being wipied off the map now…
Jooooooooooooooooooooooooz and Israeliz… Prepare for Israel to be swarmed with Darfurian refugees
http://sudanesethinker.blogspot.com/2006/05/sudanese-refugees-detained-in-israel.html
May 24th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Drima,
I have said it before and I will say it again in the past 60 years or so no country was wiped off the map but Palestine and the A.J. propaganda means nothing because reality is stronger
May 24th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
Here are some humorous takes on Ahmadinejad’s original letter:
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2006/05/post.html
http://www.lileks.com/screedblog/06/050906.html
May 24th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
I have said it before and I will say it again in the past 60 years or so no country was wiped off the map but Palestine
Twosret…. can we pleaaasseee talk about something else? Anything else?
But just by way of particpation in the discussion you want to have, what map are you looking at? The British “Mandate of Palestine” (colony) included both present day Israel and present day Jordan. And neither was a sovereign country. There has never (in recorded history) been a sovereign palestinian state.
I’m interpreting your words literally, but that looked like a literal statement of “fact” to me.
May 24th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
A.J is an Idiot but bush is….. Well BUSH IS A RETARD. God what a world we live in. Anyone can rule a country. But Bush sutre rubbed in the drug thing, I started to laugh, everyone here including BUSH is on drugs. VERY STRANGE,WORLD.
May 25th, 2006 at 3:29 am
Actually, technically even if Palestine was ever an independent nation (which, as Craig pointed out correctly, it wasn’t), what Twosret is saying still wouldn’t be true. North and South Yemen no longer exist. Neither does the Soviet Union. Czechoslovakia is gone. So is Yugoslavia.
If you are talking about “nations” in the more informal ethnic sense, then the Tamils in Sri Lanka wouldn’t agree with you, neither would the Kashmiris or some inhabitants of the far eastern regions of India (Nagaland, for instance) nor the inhabitants of East Timor in SE Asia. For that matter, there are probably many independence movements in the region of Indonesia of varying strength. Eritrea was promised autonomy, but only obtained it in the last few years. Chechens still want their nation. So do many Basques in Spain. There are also other, more weak, regional Spanish movements. The Western Sahara is still held by Morocco despite contrary Sahelian opinion. Montenegro might finally be seceding from its union with Serbia - it was “wiped off the map” for many decades as an autonomous entity. Some people in the state of Chiapas in Mexico would prefer independence, so would some white Portuguese in southern Brazil. Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
Nope. There is no truth to Twosret’s statement, regardless of how you take it.
May 25th, 2006 at 8:25 am
Twosret… sorry I was with you on that one until I read Tommy’s comment… Nevertheless Twosret whatever the situation was it will never be a justification for the atrocities and forced evictions committed against the Palestinians that time.