Ahmadinejad Wants Debate With Bush

And this isn't a rough draft of a SNL skit either. Iran's genocidal leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to 'debate' President Bush. Is there any good that could ever come from such an encounter? Not in the slightest. Why would the US even give Ahmadinejad and the mad mullahs the legitimacy they crave on the basis of a debate one-on-one? It makes no sense whatsoever.

Ahmadinejad seeks to annihilate Israel, threatens the West and the US on a near daily basis, and is seeking nuclear weapons at all costs. Iran has been regularly testing all manner of weapons systems, including long range surface to surface missiles from submarines just this week, and provided Hizbullah with all manner of weapons systems and technological information in their war with Israel earlier this month. Iran used Hizbullah as a proxy army against Israel, and is seeking to destabilize the region to assert Iranian dominance around the Middle East, which has caused great consternation among the other Arab and Islamic countries.

Ahmadinejad goes on to say:

"The U.S. and Britain are the source of many tensions. At the Security Council, where they have to protect security, they enjoy the veto right. If anybody confronts them, there is no place to take complaints to," Ahmadinejad said during a press conference.

"This (veto right) is the source of problems of the world. ... It is an insult to the dignity, independence, freedom and sovereignty of nations," he said.

Let's examine that last part, shall we? For starters, Ahmadinejad is busy projecting Iran's own actions of destabilizing and causing mayhem around the Middle East onto the US and the West.

Iran doesn't give Iranians any of the freedom, dignity, or rights that he seeks for his country at the UN. Iranians do not have freedom to practice religion as they see fit, and women are second class citizens and treated no better than property. Iran routinely calls for the annihilation of Israel, which is another sovereign nation with all the rights afforded to such entities in the international framework that has guided international relations since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

Then there's the issue of vetos in the Security Council. Russia and China routinely run interference for thugocracies, theocracies, and other undesirable regimes like Iran, Sudan, and Iraq, despite the overwhelming evidence that these nations have violated UN Security Council resolutions and international law, including the Genocide Convention. There's considerable and growing evidence showing that members of the UN, including Russian and French diplomats, were bought off by Iraq in the oil-for-food scandal (UNSCAM). Iraq managed to avoid the harshest actions by the UN because they bought off enough members of the Security Council to water down any action by the UN so as to make them meaningless. Iran now follows in those footsteps, and is using its oil production capabilities and deals with Russia and China to keep the UN from taking further action against Iran's nuclear intentions.

Maybe Ahmadinejad is loathe to point out that Russia and China are the source of many tensions in the world, probably because those two countries have quite a few deals for the oil that Iran provides. He doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds him - and provides his country with many of the weapons systems.