Ahmadinejad’s HaloDove of Peace, or Angel of Death? That’s the question about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — actually it’s not really a question at all, ’cause Ahmadinejad has no problem expressing how-he-really-feels, and he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks.

Kinda makes you wonder, how stable is this nutter? Evidently, from this Reuter’s report, Carl Rove and the Bush Administration are under the impression that ol’ Mahmoud is playin’ with a pretty short deck!

Reaching a diplomatic solution over Iran’s nuclear ambitions will be difficult because Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “not a rational human being,” a senior White House adviser said on Wednesday.

The United States is pressing for the U.N. Security Council to take further action against Iran for pursuing its nuclear program, which the Bush administration says is a cover for producing weapons while Tehran says is for peaceful energy generation.
(…)
“It’s going to be difficult. It’s going to be tough because they are led by ideologues who have a weird sense of history,” he said.

Hard not to have a weird sense of history when you are convinced that it’s your personal responsibility to hasten, if not outright facilitate, the coming of the 12th Shia Imam, which only takes world-wide Apocalypse to make happen!

Rove said his characterization of Ahmadinejad was based on statements the Iranian president made after speaking to the United Nations.

“Ahmadinejad spoke to the United Nations and afterwards was quoted as saying that for the 23 minutes that he spoke, there was a halo around his head that transfixed the audience and caused them to be completely focused on his message,” he said.

Hey, I’m showing you that halo up top there! Not quite as angelic as Ahmadinejad wants us to believe, but what would you expect from someone that says:

“As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map[.]“

Or, maybe you’d take him seriously if he said this about the reality of the Nazi Holocaust:

“They have fabricated a legend under the name Massacre of the Jews, and they hold it higher than God himself, religion itself and the prophets themselves.

“If somebody in their country questions God, nobody says anything, but if somebody denies the myth of the massacre of Jews, the Zionist loudspeakers and the governments in the pay of Zionism will start to scream.”

Uh, destroy Israel and kill all the Jews, then deny that the Nazis had the same idea. I’ve heard of maniacal ownership-of-idea, but this is ridiculous. How long can we let this guy take Iran down this nuclear-road-to-perdition? The Left doesn’t want any real action — “We can’t possibly stop him militarily”, they whine. Someone might break a nail! Guess we could let all the nuclear-nutters play a spunky game of KILL EVERYBODY!

One doesn’t have to read between any lines to see where this is all heading. Iran’s statements today upped the ante big time.

Iran intends to enrich uranium on a scale hundreds of times larger than its current level, the country’s deputy nuclear chief said Wednesday, signaling its resolve to expand a program the international community insists it halt.
(…)
“We will expand uranium enrichment to industrial scale at Natanz,” Deputy Nuclear Chief Mohammad Saeedi told state-run television.

Saeedi said using 54,000 centrifuges will be able to produce enough enriched uranium to provide fuel for a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant like one Russia is finishing in southern Iran.

In theory, that many centrifuges could be used to develop the material needed for hundreds of nuclear warheads if Iran can perfect the techniques for producing the highly enriched uranium needed.

As Alexandra at All Things Beautiful wrote yesterday, “We are Out of Time!” Today she asks, “What Does Iran Want?” and challenges those on the Left that refuse to consider taking preemptive action:

Let’s debate how our friends on the Left convince themselves that this is not so, a position Neo-Neocon accurately characterizes as “wishful thinking”, and why they believe that those amongst us, who do take Thug-In-Chief Ahmadinejad & Co. seriously, are merely promoting politics of phantom fear.

When will it be enough to take action?

Hugh Hewitt presents five big reasons that the Left argues against attacking Iran:

• 1. The United States military cannot accomplish the mission.
• 2: Striking Iran will cause Iran to strike against our troops in Iraq.
• 3. An attack on Iran will unleash Iranian-sponsored terrorism around the world.
• 4. America’s position in the world will crumble if we attack Iran.
• 5. There are other ways of deterring Iran’s nuclear program.

Hugh will be posting reactions from military experts on both sides of the issue. As he writes to close his post:

This is the biggest debate of all[.]

What is beyond debate is the mental state of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This madman can not be allowed to have a cache of nuclear weapons at his disposal — ’cause he will dispose!

Technorati Tags: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Enrichment, 54000 Centrifuges, Carl Rove, Hugh Hewitt

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 at 3:30 pm and is filed under Culture of Death, Iran Threat. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.  |   Print This Post  |   Email This Post

Recently Posted:

• “Young Mattie Fein” Political Ad — Hot Linkage & More . . .
• Just Bloggin’ Around: VJ Day Video, Ground Zero Mosque, Obaminations & More . . .
• We The People — An Open Letter To President Obama
• Remembering Annie & Some Hard-Life Lessons
• Obama’s Nightmare In The Gulf
• Obama’s Exectuive Order Banning Federal Funding of Abortion Proves To Be Just More B.S.
• American Women — Takin’ Names, Kickin’ Butt!
• Now Obama’s F’ing Up NASA!
• Happy 4th of July Y’all!
• VOTE!