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Iran's Ahmadinejad Taunts President Bush
Newsmax.com ^ | 12/21/2006 | Reuters

Posted on 12/21/2006 1:30:52 PM PST by Paul Ross

Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006 12:20 a.m. EST

Iran's Ahmadinejad Taunts President Bush

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday mocked President Bush and said Iran's nuclear program was a source of inspiration for other nations.

His typically outspoken remarks came after Bush said the Iranian president was out of step with the rest of the world and U.N. diplomats said a draft resolution imposing sanctions on Tehran for its atomic work should be approved on Friday.

Addressing a rally in western Iran, Ahmadinejad urged Bush to "step out of your glass palace and go to your people to see how isolated you are, not only across the world but also in your own country."

"Mr. Bush can travel to one of the American states, inviting the people to a stadium to see how the people would treat him," the ISNA students news agency quoted him as saying.

"I am sure that the American people would treat Mr. Bush as the Indonesian people treated him," he said referring to protests that greeted Bush on a visit to Indonesia last month.

Ahmadinejad said Western efforts to deflect Iran from its goal of perfecting nuclear technology were fruitless.

"Some so-called superpowers have gathered together and they think that they can control the whole world. I'm telling them: Open your eyes, today, the world no longer thinks your decisions have any value.

"By God's grace, the enemies have not been able to do anything (against Iran) as yet and they will not be able to do anything in the future too," he said.

Iran says its nuclear program will only be used for peaceful aims, such as electricity generation, and not to make bombs as United States and its European allies fear.

In a separate speech on Thursday Ahmadinejad reiterated a prediction that Iran would announce in February it had become a full member of the nuclear energy club during celebrations to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

The official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying Western efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear plans were motivated by fear that others would follow Tehran's example.

"Iran's independence, prosperity and progress will soon become an example for other nations," he said.

"The bullying powers are also afraid that the Iranian nation's progress will raise the expectations of other nations, pushing them to stand up to these powers," he added.

Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry said on Wednesday he expected the U.N. Security Council to vote this week on a resolution imposing sanctions on Iran for failing to heed calls it halt sensitive nuclear fuel production work.

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki struck a more conciliatory tone in Tehran, stressing that Iran wanted to return to negotiations over its nuclear program.

"We believe it is possible to build a bridge between the two sides such that Iran can have its rights (to nuclear energy) and any question or ambiguity (about its program) can be removed," he said.

"We have to repeat that the language of threats has lost its usefulness and negotiation is the best way to find a possible solution," he told a joint news conference with visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Kursheed Mehmood Kasuri.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; globalism; iran; jihadistan; nukeiran; nukenukenuke; nuketehran
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1 posted on 12/21/2006 1:30:54 PM PST by Paul Ross
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To: Paul Ross

This man is so full of hot air, too bad we can't just ignore him.


2 posted on 12/21/2006 1:32:03 PM PST by Mazda3Fan
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To: All
"step out of your glass palace and go to your people to see how isolated you are"

There's got to be a way to keep that guy from reading the DNC web site!

3 posted on 12/21/2006 1:34:01 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Paul Ross

Little 'nutjob' 60 million Amricans voted for Bush. That's almost your entire country. Now beat it punk!


4 posted on 12/21/2006 1:34:02 PM PST by avacado
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To: Paul Ross

"Boy, you in a heap 'o trouble" if you don't back off.


5 posted on 12/21/2006 1:34:17 PM PST by unkus
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To: Paul Ross
Which is worse taunting or mocking?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756849/posts

6 posted on 12/21/2006 1:34:36 PM PST by ASA Vet (The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
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To: Paul Ross

That little man is in serious need of a butt kicking.


7 posted on 12/21/2006 1:35:18 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

Or Katie Couric....


8 posted on 12/21/2006 1:37:07 PM PST by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: Mazda3Fan
Well, maybe the solution is a twist on the mutually assured destruction tactic of the cold war. Unfortunately, with Islam, you can't limit it to the offending nation alone.
Break out all the nukes. Target every Islamic nation on earth and simply state that if Iran fires up a nuke, no Muslim on earth will see it launch.
9 posted on 12/21/2006 1:39:07 PM PST by GrandEagle
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To: Paul Ross

didn't they just vote this guy OUT of office??????


10 posted on 12/21/2006 1:39:30 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: Paul Ross

He sounds almost as stupid as Pelosi and Kerry, etc.


11 posted on 12/21/2006 1:40:20 PM PST by pissant
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To: Paul Ross

Live from Tehran!
Amadinejad: "You Bush and your country are fools! You will be sorry one day you will....What's that sound?!!" (Sounds of planes then a massive explosion.)


I can dream can't I?


12 posted on 12/21/2006 1:43:19 PM PST by 444Flyer ("Yes, we smell a rat close by!"--The Three Little Kittens.)
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To: 444Flyer
(Sounds of planes then a massive explosion.)
Not going to happen. Remember, the Dems just got back from Iraq with the recommendation that we surrender. Do your think they would actually embark against another enemy of ours?
13 posted on 12/21/2006 1:50:35 PM PST by GrandEagle
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To: Paul Ross
"Some so-called superpowers have gathered together and they think that they can control the whole world. I'm telling them: Open your eyes, today, the world no longer thinks your decisions have any value."

Hey President Tom, according to the recent voting in your country, your people no longer think your decisions have any value!

And please show me the riots in this picture showing our President at one of our stadiums:


14 posted on 12/21/2006 1:57:06 PM PST by Eagle of Liberty ("I do a lot of things to irritate the libs. And it works!" - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Mazda3Fan
This man is so full of hot air, too bad we can't just ignore him

Much more dangerous than hot air.

I cannot believe the United States will commit suicide because of political correctness.

15 posted on 12/21/2006 2:04:00 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: unkus
"Boy, you in a heap 'o trouble" if you don't back off."

Not with the Dummies running Congress. In fact, I won't be a bit surprised if he's invited to Nancy Pelosi's Inaugural Party.

Imanutjob will continue to build his nuclear capability totally unfettered. But, when, as is inevitable, a nuclear device is detonated in a major American city, it'll all be Bush's fault.

The only saving grace to any of this pending debacle is that it's pretty hard to think of a major American city that isn't primarily left-wing and therefore responsible in a major way for the problem getting to this point.
16 posted on 12/21/2006 2:04:02 PM PST by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: Paul Ross

"Your mother is a hamster and your father reeks of elderberries!"


17 posted on 12/21/2006 2:04:25 PM PST by Spok (He who bites the hands that feeds him will lick the boot that kicks him.)
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To: Mazda3Fan
The man is justified in taunting. Bush is a paper tiger...and more importantly, so is the West.

The West has earned Iranian contempt.

18 posted on 12/21/2006 2:05:12 PM PST by zarf
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To: GrandEagle

Like I said "I can dream can't I?"


19 posted on 12/21/2006 2:06:13 PM PST by 444Flyer ("Yes, we smell a rat close by!"--The Three Little Kittens.)
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To: Paul Ross

Please don't blast me, but this song has been banging around in my head since yesterday. It;s the first song I learned to sing as a tike.
"Ab-a dab-a dab-a dab-a, ab-a dab-a dab-a
Said the chimpie to the monk
Bab-a dab-a dab-a dab-a, bab-a dab-a dab-a
said the monkey to the chimp.
All night long, they'd chatter away,
all day long they're happy and gay!


20 posted on 12/21/2006 2:06:20 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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