Before you read the following CNN article and then my commentary, please note that CNN interrupted the Iranian President's Address and started commenting on it even before he had finished greeting the forum. I think this is the most inebriated form of disrespect because no one should be insulted as much as Iran's President had been right there in his face and then not given a chance to respond or not at least listened to even if he is going to try and circumvent the answering any questions posed or if he was going to try to avoid the matter altogether.
This seems to be the approach that the American government has adopted since they seem to be happy with passing their opinion on everyone else. How come they allow the president of Columbia insult the president in the name of free speech and then start interrupting the very next address to those insults. The media has played a great part in tinting the American public's views on a lot of these political things and it is hard because most people believe that journalists really are impartial unless they are on FOX NEWS but I guess this is far from a truism. CNN seemed bent on portraying the Iranian President as a bad man and we all know many people have been called bad in the media only to be discovered later that this was not true. I must also point out here that CNN also seemed to summarily think that marching for the Jena 6 was pointless. They had some gentleman on a show that argued that Mychal had prior convictions on battery and assault and was on probation and tried to make sense of the fact that these poor highschoolers were victims of an overzealous DA with a racial agenda.
Just read the CNN article about Pres Ahmadinejad...
My Comments:
I don't feel this man was given enough time to explain himself but that shouldn’t make me an idiot because I want to listen to what he has to say no matter what others have said about him already...
Imagine that the USA supported Iraq in the early 1990s to fight a war against him and now are calling the President of Iran all sorts of names. I am not a pro-Iranian but we as advocates of the truth should seek truth. The US dismissed claims of the Nuclear Inspectors that Iraq did not have WMDs and waged on with their war only to find out that the inspectors were right.
The US now has turned its attention on Iran saying they too are in possession of enough Uranium to build WMDs now how should the US be trusted when they blew it so badly in Iraq even turning down UN calls for more patience and a diplomatic solution in Iraq? It is ridiculous that we as a free people love to hate people we don't know or people who tend to pose honest questions but we really are proving to the world that we are the ignorant ones not the President of Iran...and booing him when he spoke? Please! what he said consisted his views and they will never change just as our views are pretty much set and we would not allow another person's views to even be spoken.
Bush to me is the worst and greatest dictator in the world. Wiretapping; attacking Iraq and Afghanistan; ruining the US economy; making a liar of a decorated War veteran (Colin Powell) amongst a lot of other things. He even succeeded in making a joke of the US justice system-imagine what nonsense we students of International Law and Policy have to face with the whole war on terror versus the recent firings of the Attorney Generals debacle. The President of the US even condones revealing the identity of a CIA operative's name just because her husband didn't accept his lies for without seeing facts. He promised to follow the issue and assured the nation that the culprits will be punished accordingly but what became of that? He hindered investigations by telling his former staff they had immunity and shouldn't even speak to Congress about anything he didn't want them to and Americans just sat back and kept quiet.
