Re: Ahmedinejad’s letter
Prez. Nejad’s blabbering on 9-11 is so bizzare that even lefties of America are estonished. Read on guys. View of a liberal media outlet of USA.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/05/post.html
The Iranian President’s Mindset
I've now had a chance to read the letter of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to President Bush.
The letter gives us a pretty good insight into the Iranian leader's mindset: The Iranian president declares, Osama bin Laden-style, that liberalism and democracy have failed, that religious rule is the only legitimate way, that the Middle East and Africa are being held back in scientific and economic progress, and that 9/11 was a conspiracy or a cover-up.
Predictably, there's no direct reference to Iran's clandestine pursuit of a nuclear bomb. President Ahmadinejad instead reminds President Bush -- I'm sure he needs reminding -- that the United States was wrong about Iraq, ergo it must be wrong about Iran.
It may be the first official Iranian dispatch to America since 1979, but by not addressing the nuclear concerns that are on the table right now, the letter sadly provides little hope of deescalating the current tensions.
What is more, Iran falls into a trap of focusing attention on itself as a state sponsor of terrorism, thus feeding the Bush administration’s growing justification of the eventuality of certain war.
I don’t have the energy to address everything in Ahmadinejad’s letter, but I do want to address 9/11. The Iranian President writes:
September Eleven was a horrendous incident. The killing of innocents is deplorable and appalling in any part of the world. Our government immediately declared its disgust with the perpetrators and offered its condolences to the bereaved and expressed its sympathies.
All governments have a duty to protect the lives, property and good standing of their citizens. Reportedly your government employs extensive security, protection and intelligence systems – and even hunts its opponents abroad. September eleven was not a simple operation. Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services – or their extensive infiltration? Of course this is just an educated guess. Why have the various aspects of the attacks been kept secret? Why are we not told who botched their responsibilities? And, why aren’t those responsible and the guilty parties identified and put on trial?
I hope all readers can see where Ahmadinejad is factually incorrect, but given that far too many Americans basically agree, there is no question we have a problem.
9/11 wasn't a simple operation; it was meticulously planned over many years and carried out in the face of enormous risk.
I read from 9/11 that al Qaeda is therefore an organization that can be diabolical in its simplicity and is capable of and motivated to doing far worse. Al Qaeda thus demands a worldwide campaign of eradication.
I read 9/11 as a massive failure of the intelligence and security services not their triumph. These services weren't able to detect or thwart the attacks, were unable to really understand the adversary, and were incapable of carrying out their basic functions of even screening passengers on an airline flight. The intelligence and security services have certainly never paid for their failures. In fact, they've been rewarded.
But what makes anyone think that the very intelligence and security services who failed to detect or thwart the attack could be the masterminds behind the attacks? The only real possibility in this conspiracy theory is that the same intelligence and security services that failed on 9/11 are the perpetrators. It has got to be the CIA, planning and pulling off 9/11 on behalf of the Bush administration to start a war against Islam that would result in a war in Iraq that would result in tensions with Iran that would result in thousands of American deaths and injuries and the lowest popularity of an American war president in history.
All, I guess, so that ExxonMobil can make unprecedented profits.
That al Qaeda didn't act alone was the first impulse of the Bush White House and the reason why Iraq so quickly ended up on their radar screen. It is a discredited and pernicious theory.
Ironically, by Iran aligning itself with the theory of a state sponsor, it too is now placing the bull's-eye on its own chest. What is more, the close identification of Ahmadinejad's ideas with the bin Laden mindset must be confirming in the minds of the desktop warriors of the Bush administration that Iran is indeed a terrorist state that must be eliminated.