http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14911603/ This guy has alot of guts coming over here, he better watch a house doesnt fall on him like his sister had in oz!

I guess no one in here will stand up for their country and President, what a pity.

?The U.S. government thinks that it?s still the period after World War II,? Ahmadinejad said in an interview with Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of ?NBC Nightly News,? a mindset that led Bush to believe that he ?can rule, therefore, over the rest of the world.? But ?the world has changed,? he said. ?Nations are awakened now. They want their rights ? equal rights, and fair ones. The time for world empires has ended.? Interesting words, don't you think? The world changed, nations awakened, they want equal and fair rights. Hmmm.. is that why they go running and screaming to the UN when they want to impose their view of how the world should be where Israel is concerned and totally ignore the UN when it comes up with things they don't like? It doesn't sound like the world changed a great deal to me.

I think he has learned how to play the United Nations like a fiddle!

It's not hard to play the UN, unless you are one of the greater nations that is.

yeah, he sounds kind of like Nikita when he came to the UN to pound his shoe on the podium. Well, I guess his we will bury you didn't come to pass and neither will that of the Iranian Prezz Alamagumption

He sounds much more intelligent, reasonable and sane than anyone in the Bush administration. The USA should simply stay home and mind its own business. Very reasonable.

LOL You do sound like RBP and his mantra. The idea of staying at home and minding our own business doesn't work when he says it, nor does it work when you say it. What you preach is Isolationism and it does not work.

the war in Iraq isn't working and it is getting worse by the day a complete waste of US lives and treasure and it has only made the USA less safe

Sure it's working, you just are looking for things which were not the purpose of our being there, and you are ignoring the fact that sometimes there are setbacks in the best of plans. We went to Iraq to stop Saddam. That was done. We went to Iraq to stop his weapons of mass destruction program. That was done. We went to Iraq to stop Saddam's civil rights violations. That was done. We went to Iraq to stop the country from becoming a safe haven for Islamic Terrorists. That was done. Once in Iraq we could not just say "Saddam's gone, so are we. Bye-eee!" A strong Iraqi government with a strong Iraqi Military, Law Enforcement and fair Legal System and to be put in place. This road was a little rocky, but it's getting done, as is rebuilding Iraq. Don't give me that garbage that the US is rebuilding what the US destroyed bit, that has been proven false a long time ago. The US has been rebuilding the Infrastructure laid to waste by the Saddam Government, plus damage done by the war. In Addition we've been finding things buried in Iraq that Saddam claimed he didn't have and on occassion we find more stuff. Over half the Iragis love their freedom and having their say by voting. Even the Insurgents prove they love their newfound freedom by fighting on. They would have never had that freedom under Saddam. The US is not taking great losses in a series of wars which lasted as long as they did. In fact US casaulties and deaths are pretty light. What is going on in Iraq is that it is a battlefront for the Mid-east/West clash. Everyday that the Iranians, AQ, Syrians and others push the Insurgency to fight on shows us why we cannot just up and leave those Iraqis and it shows why we have to stay and finish the job. No one promised a rose garden in Iraq, but with the proper pressures in the states we can accomplish the mission we set out to do in Iraq instead of wasting people's times in having to defend what is going on. I do not view the Freedom and Rights of 25 Million Iraqis as a waste of time or efforts. I also think there is nothing wrong in Iraqi Oil paying for the costs for their freedom and rennovations. If we would all take the attitude of "Let's get the job done and do what is right for Iraq" instead of "Let's cut and run and use the US Military and the Iraqi as a political football" then maybe we could actually turn a few attitudes around the world in our favor.

I do not view the Freedom and Rights of 25 Million Iraqis as a waste of time or efforts. ----------------- they're having a sectarian civil war and killing each other and innocent civilians in increasing numbers our military are sitting ducks getting picked off in increasing numbers our taxpayers have spent over $300 billion on this debacle no - it isn't "working" at all

I am not sure you could call what they have a civil war, it's alot closer to one side murdering the other. Sure it's working, exactly for the reasons I have stated. Do you think if the Iraqis still had Saddam in power they would dare pull this nonsense? Not on your life. Now they have their freedoms and they are exercising it.

I am not sure you could call what they have a civil war, it's alot closer to one side murdering the other. Sure it's working, exactly for the reasons I have stated. Do you think if the Iraqis still had Saddam in power they would dare pull this nonsense? Not on your life. Now they have their freedoms and they are exercising it.

nice to hear the USA has brought mass murder to Iraq hilarious that you would make that point and to think when the shooting is over the majority in Iraq who are Shiites will vote to align themselves with Iran against the USA a complete and utter failure for the USA and Bush

Interesting, you talk as if Iraq had no mass murder before the US went there. Obviously you fail to remember Saddam's attacks on the kurds and the murder of his own citizenry. Why is it hilarious? It's true that under Saddam this stuff would not have happened... and why is that? It is because Saddam was very good at ferreting out the troublemakers and putting them to death. Well that figures because for much of his career he was the Ba'ath Party "Hitman". The only way the Shi'ites will win over there is if the Sunnis allow themselves to be slaughtered. The only way Iran will take over is if the Iraqis allow it. No matter what it will be the Iraqis to choose how they will utlimately live or die. They didn't have that choice under Saddam, they only had the choice to go along with Saddam or die. Once again, it's not an utter failure, in fact it's a success.

hardly I don't subscribe to the "two wrongs make a right" theory and since the Shiites are the majority in Iraq by a wide margin and have the votes, they don't need to "slaughter" the Sunnis the failure is that at the end of the day the USA has turned a secular Arab country which was a natural enemy of Iran into a natural ally of Iran - and at the same time the USA has made itself into an international pariah hated by everyone in the Middle East and the rest of the world a total failure indeed

Then how about "Two wrongs don't make a right, but 3 do?" I don't subscribe to 2 wrongs making a right either, but I am a realist and know that what is wrong is often in the eye of the beholder. Sure the Shi'ites don't need to slaughter the Sunnis, but they are doing it. Haven't you read the papers for the past several months? The success is that at the end of the day the Iraqis will choose their form of government. I have no problems with non-secular governments, as long as that is what the people want and if they don't want it then it's there job to fight against it to avoid it from happening. I could care less what the world likes or dislike, Countries are fickled and they hate you whenever you are not their patsy and love you when your sinking money into their economy. As long as the Iraqi is free and has a say in their government. As long as the Iraqi no longer have to worry about their government leader ordering them spirited away in the night or tortured and killed because they didn't bring home medals from the olympics or the dared to utter that leader's name or because they are of a different faction.. Iraq will be a success

it won't be a "success" when they "elect" a Shiite theocracy which aligns itself with Iran and then nationalize all oil resources in the country it also won't be a "success" when they eject the USA from the permanent bases the USA is building in Iraq at a cost of tens of millions of US taxpayer dollars it won't be a "success" if because a vast majority in Iraq hate the USA for invading their country and causing the deaths of well over 100,000 people, they align themselves with Russia or China or Iran against the USA there was a good reason that Daddy Bush didn't capture Baghdad in Gulf War I Baby Bush has made a mess with no exit strategy - he's stuck in quicksand and our troops and taxpayers are paying for his mistake to say nothing of creating a whole new generation of terrorists who hate the USA for invading a Muslim country and causing the deaths of so many people

Au contraire, it's a success no matter who the Iraqis elect because that is what is called "the will of the people" in action. A democracy is where the people get the party or people the majority wants in office. That can be achieved through the mob rules type of democracy where each individual vote counts and the end talley decides or where there is a fair system such as the electoral college in place and the party or person is elected by the districts of the country. For as long as the Iraqi people have a say, there will be a continued success. The US being there to help protect Iraq is a bonus for the Iraqi. It helps insure that there government will not fall prey to outside forces until the Iraqi government has the Military and Law enforcemnet agencies built up so that they can handle their own security. To cut and run on the Iraqi because we do not have the backbone to see the job to the end will only cause a success turn into a failure. In addition if the country of Iraq wishes for the US to have permanent bases then that would be a success for all involved. US Military bases bring in a lot of money to the economy of the country and properly placed bases are an asset to the US and it's military. The US does not just go into a country, plop a base down and announce "we are hear". Each of the bases in West Germany in the early 80s, for example, were said to cost the US $1 Million a year or more, depending on size. Any damage to the farmer's fields by an air craft crashing made some poor farmer an instant millionaire. The businesses off base take an upsurge in business from the military due to our men and women wanting souvenaires to send home. In many areas the closeness of the US Military and loccals results in each group getting to see and understand each other a little better, despite some setbacks that are bound to occur. I see you easily fall prey to propaganda. The truth is that no matter which country you speak of the following holds true. Some of the people will like the US, others will hate the US, and most won't really care one way or the other. The average person might not care for certain things the US, or it's citizens, do.. but do not confuse that with hating the US. You can love people and still not like some of the things they do. The spinsters out there love to project the idea that if a person doesn't like one thing about the US then the person hates the US. It helps feed their agenda

George H.W. Bush didn't take Iraq in Gulf War 1 only because his one world masters at the UN told him to not touch Saddam, not touch Iraq. Bush then embarassed the US and everyone in it by going back on his word to the Iraqi people and prostrating himself and the entire US to that worthless UN. The UN, btw, were the ones that brought us great successes like the Korean War. They failed in everything they touched, such as Somalia and the mid-east. They failed in the cold war. They turned from a diplomatic corp to being a world government, at least in their minds they are. The UN is great for declaring military actions on places and sending off Americans and Europeans to die because they have no standing army of their own. Talk about complete failure, the UN is it. Bush did the right thing. We went to Bosnia and Herzegovina becuase "Thar was a killin' agoin' on thar." and it had to be stopped. Well that was no huge success either, but what do you expect, it was another wonderful UN War. In Iraq the same things were going on and worse and it was right to go stop it. I love the No Exit Strategy idea. The entire Exit Strategy was to with drawal troops when the job was done. The job isn't done yet, ergo we haven't gotten to the exit strategy point yet. Anti-Bushies can be such a funny lot. :) I don't feel going to Iraq was a mistake and neither do half the people I talk to. They feel mistakes were made but going to Iraq was not one of them. Of course the Anti-Bush spinsters want to make people think that if someone feels a mistake was made then that means the entire proposition is a mistake and that is illogical reasoning. The terrorists are there anyway, you keep failing to realize that. To say Bush is creating terrorists is like saying FDR created the Nazis. lol