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Pretty hard to argue with this Iranian take on the last six years....
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/...est#cnnSTCText
updated 9:05 p.m. EST, Mon January
.....Also on Monday, top Iranian officials heaped scorn on Bush's visit to the Middle East, with one of them saying the American leader was attempting to stir up "Iranophobia," a state-run Iranian news agency reported Monday.
Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency noted the comments of Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Ala'eddin Boroujerdi, head of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.
Bush, in a speech Sunday in Abu Dhabi, labeled Iran as the "world's leading sponsor of terror" and asked allies to join the United States in confronting Iran "before it's too late."
But Mottaki -- who made his remarks to Al-Jazeera news network Sunday -- <h3>said the United States "was the main cause of extremism in the region as it has been supporting terrorist and extremist groups during the past six years."</h3> <a href="">Watch excerpt from Bush's speech »</a>
He said Bush was trying to foment tensions in the Persian Gulf over the Strait of Hormuz incident on January 6. The U.S. military described a confrontation between U.S. ships and Iranian boats, but Mottaki called the American version of the story fabricated, the Islamic Republic News Agency said.
The report paraphrased Mottaki as saying that <h3>"fanning the fuel of Iranophobia was the objective of Bush's visit to the region."</h3>
In the IRNA report, Boroujerdi said referring to Iran as a threat won't affect Teheran's ties with its neighbors.
Mottaki touted growing bilateral cooperation between Iran and its neighbors and said that U.S. officials can't "understand the historical, religious and cultural commonalties between Iran and other regional countries," said the IRNA report.
The report paraphrased Boroujerdi as saying <h3>Bush's talk about Iran "is the saber-rattling of a defeated man."</h3>
"Bush would achieve no results from his visit to the region given Iran's current cooperation with the regional states as well as Tehran's firm decision to safeguard regional security with the help of the regional countries," the lawmaker said.
Boroujerdi indicated that Bush embarked on the trip to shore up support for his unpopular policies and that his visit to the West Bank and the Persian Gulf "was just a political propaganda campaign as he knew his policies in the region were futile."
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On the lighter side, the bewilderment of tiny tiny bushwelt snooze media:
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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/15/...ran-speedboat/
Fox News Reverses Course After Initially Calling For U.S. Navy To Blow Iran Boats ‘Out Of The Water’
On January 7, the media reported that five Iranian speedboats had harassed three U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz, almost instigating a military confrontation.
The next day, Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade angrily claimed the Navy should have blown the Iranian boats out of the water. Speaking on the morning show Fox & Friends, Kilmeade said the following:
KILMEADE: Was this a mistake not to blow these other Iranian speedboats out of the water? […] Why did we not destroy these speedboats? […] We had an opportunity to send a message to a nation that has been needling us for 20 years.
Today, a week after his call for war with Iran, Brian Kilmeade was forced to concede that the verbal threats made against the U.S. ships are “a possible hoax from a man called the ‘Filipino Monkey.’” Kilmeade’s co-host Gretchen Carlson claimed that she knew it all along. “I remember sitting in my office thinking, you gotta be kidding me? That voice does not sound to me like an Iranian accent.” She didn’t say that on-air, however, prior to this morning.
Kilmeade’s other co-host, Steve Doocy, piped in with this comment:
DOOCY: But can you imagine, had we blown those little boats out of the water to find out, you know, that they didn’t have bombs and in fact it was the Filipino Monkey who was somewhere on shore pulling a prank?
Watch the video....
Fox News Reverses Course After Initially Calling For U.S. Navy To Blow Iran Boats ‘Out Of The Water’
On January 7, the media reported that five Iranian speedboats had harassed three U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz, almost instigating a military confrontation.
The next day, Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade angrily claimed the Navy should have blown the Iranian boats out of the water. Speaking on the morning show Fox & Friends, Kilmeade said the following:
KILMEADE: <h3>Was this a mistake not to blow these other Iranian speedboats out of the water?</h3> […] Why did we not destroy these speedboats? […] <h3>We had an opportunity to send a message to a nation that has been needling us for 20 years.</h3>
Today, a week after his call for war with Iran, Brian Kilmeade was forced to concede that the verbal threats made against the U.S. ships are “a possible hoax from a man called the ‘Filipino Monkey.’” Kilmeade’s co-host Gretchen Carlson claimed that she knew it all along. “I remember sitting in my office thinking, you gotta be kidding me? That voice does not sound to me like an Iranian accent.” She didn’t say that on-air, however, prior to this morning.
Kilmeade’s other co-host, Steve Doocy, piped in with this comment:
DOOCY: But can you imagine, had we blown those little boats out of the water to find out, you know, that they didn’t have bombs and in fact it was the Filipino Monkey who was somewhere on shore pulling a prank?
Carlson wrapped up the segment by stating, “Let’s hope it’s not the Filipino Monkey, <h3>for our sake. Because I think it’s a humongous embarrassment.”
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...Carlson hits the nail on the head...."for our sake", better a provocation for war, taking place in the narrow straits where 15 percent of the world's daily oil supplymust regularly pass, during the first third of the north American winter heating season, than what the fullness of time is revealing this incident to actually be about....and he gets paid to say it, and it's broadcast and cabled to the faithful, and they shake their heads in the affirmative, at the tv screen, because the still want to believe.
Last edited by host; 01-16-2008 at 01:30 AM..
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