Ahmadinejad: Mideast leaders should heed calls for change

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CNN.com:

(CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday urged Middle East leaders to listen to the voices of citizens who have taken to the streets in masses to demand a change in government -- though such protests in his own country have been crushed with brute force.

Ahmadinejad "strongly recommended such leaders to let their peoples express their opinions," the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
"He further urged those leaders of regional countries who respond to the demands of their nations and their revolutionary uprisings with hot bullets to join their peoples' movements instead of creating blood baths."

Anti-government protests that toppled the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt have spread across a swath of the Middle East and North Africa, including in Iran. There, opposition to the ruling clerics has simmered since the 2009 election, when hundreds of thousands of people filled Tehran's streets to denounce the re-election of Ahmadinejad as fraudulent.

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'You can fool some of the people some of the time' and obviously Ahmadinejad believes he can fool/brainwash those he 'rules' all of the time. (What an pompous, uh, you know.)

 

It is hard for me to fathom Ahmadinejad has the unmitigated gall to stand up in public and speak total blather and lies. I am sure the total control of his country he demonstrated with his "re-election" only led him to believe more in his own demagoguery.

 

Could it be that in Iran there are many people who have only state-run news to get their information from? Such residents could possibly be pacified by Ahmadinejad's latest false rhetoric. They would perhaps then not feel the need to seek a violent method to object to the conditions under which they live, nor would they know about or feel a need to join the brotherhoods of protesters from neighboring nations.

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You blow up enough of your own people, they might just get irritated enough to do something about it.

 

You would think we'd learn enough from our own history that we would know that:

1) Faith is integral to creating any sort of republic. Islam mandates intolerance of other religions and looks to absolute law from leaders. Christianity is based on natural law principles.

2) It takes a paradigm shift in your culture before you can make a republic work before shifting from tyranny.

3) This takes a long time.

 

Yet we have this theory that if we blow up a leader or invade, we can install a democracy or a republic that works for a foreign country with a different base religion? It must.. MUST.. be organic to have any independent longevity. We can't comprehend dictatorship, but how many years has this worked in its feeble way for Iran?

 

I stand by my belief that we should take the stance that we don't agree with their religion or politics, and we'll stay out. We'll proudly demonstrate our model of government and support you should your people desire a republic, but you have to ask for our help once your people demand it. In the meantime, by God if you sincerely threaten the well being of our people, harm, or harbor any that do, we will turn your ass into a bead of glass because we absolutely can. Let that be a motivator, and we hope you figure it out like America did.