The letter that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Iranian President) sent to Bush, appears to 'attack' him, What I say, is that it's most likely just telling Bush some home truths, that all the Arab world knows and knew he was lying. There is no escaping that fact.
Things getting better? How do we know that? No international reporter will leave the green zone as they know that they will be targets for the warring factions for kidnapping and/or killed., The only way we in the west have to get a snippet is by the Iraqi reporters, Bloggers, and video reporters. These people risk their lives on a daily basis to try and give us some news from with in the Red zone, this is anywhere outside of the green zone. Which I would say is 99.99999% of the rest of the country.
So what does this letter say? All 18 pages of it? That I don't think will ever get published unless the Iranians make it public, but then the US will say something along the lines of, It's a fake, it's not what was said etc...
Here are some snippets (from the
BBC)
"Lies were told in the Iraqi matter," Reuters news agency quoted the letter as saying. "What was the result? I have no doubt that telling lies is reprehensible in any culture."
The president also questioned the creation of Israel, asking "how can this phenomenon be rationalised or explained?", Reuters reported.
From the New York Times there is an expanded view on the Isreal issue.
"Again let us assume that these events are true," he wrote about the Holocaust. "Does that logically translate into the establishment of the state of Israel in the Middle East or support for such a state?"
"A regime has been established which does not show mercy even to kids, destroys houses while the occupants are still in them, announces beforehand its list and plans
to assassinate Palestinian figures and keeps thousands of Palestinians in prison," the letter says.
Source On the Issue of 9/11 he does ask some questions, that I would have also asked myself
Mr. Ahmadinejad also calls the 9/11 attacks a "horrendous incident" in which the killing of innocent people was "deplorable."
But he asks: "Why have the various aspects of the attacks been kept secret? Why are we not told who botched their responsibilities? And, why aren't those responsible and the guilty parties identified and put on trial?"
But what is most revealing, and I suppose something that a lot of people would have noted about the US foreign policy to the mid-east.
The letter provides at times a striking insight into the Iranian president's vision of double standards in American foreign policy, criticizing what he portrays as a lack of support for elected Palestinian and Latin American governments.
He both concedes and needles. With his country having fought a war with Iraq under
Saddam Hussein, Mr. Ahmadinejad at once applauds the overthrow of the regime while criticizing what he seems to imply as a double standard.
"Of course Saddam was a murderous dictator," he wrote. "But the war was not waged to topple him, the announced goal of the war was to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction."
He later adds: "I point out that throughout the many years of the ... war on Iran Saddam was supported by the West."
There is one last question that is asked (from what is reported)
If billions of dollars spent on security, military campaigns and troop movement were instead spent on issues including health and aid to the poor, he wrote, "would there have been an ever increasing global hatred of the American governments?"
So, what do I say to all that? Is there a lot of truth in the letter, well one can say yes there is, will the US administration take any heed? Most likely not. But the buttom line is, the US knows that it really can't do too much against Iran, if they do, they can pretty much say goodbye to their Oil, Their army out in Iraq, and pretty much become the pariah of the world.
*Update* Full letter can be downloaded from
here
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