This post deserves its own thread. Seriously.
Iran leader: Bush administration declarations regarding Iraq based on ''lies'
Albawaba Middle East News, Jordan
26th Nov, 2003
The Bush administration is telling a "shameless lie" when it says it is in Iraq to bring about democracy, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday.
Addressing the nation on the Fitr feast, Khamenei condemned the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq as "degrading for the Iraqi people." "They (American officials) said: 'We want to give freedom to the Iraqi nation.' But today they have put the Iraqi nation under such a tight grip that the Iraqi nation has no choice but to claw their faces, and it is doing so," Khamenei said in a sermon in a mosque in central Tehran that was broadcast on state television.
"Let the American nation know that their government has dragged them into a swamp in Iraq, and the longer they stay, they more they will sink," Khamenei added.
"This region does not tolerate occupation. They say 'We want to turn the Middle East into a region of democracy.' This is a shameless lie. They are opposed to democracy.
"They know that that if they turn to the people's vote in Iraq at this very moment, the decisive majority of the people ... will elect those people who would not allow the Americans to stay in Iraq for a single day," Khamenei said.
http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=264294&lang=e&dir=news