By exhibitng emotional, rather than rational reactions, we give Ahmedimejad a PR opening to claim we are afradi of him, that we are intolerant, or any of a number of other outrageous, but internationlly effective, claims.

By reacting with cool dignity, we cpuld have short circuited his manipulation of the media.
Unfortuanley, the ‘other people’ prefer useless grandstanding over getting a good result.

P.S: He’ll probably take a rain-check on that visit to the Holocaust Museum. And why shouldn’t he?

One day, if he’s true to his word, he’ll have his own Holocaust Museum.

With his own name on it.

If there’s any justice, George W. Bush is the madman who will have his own holocaust musuem.

With his own name on it–After all, unlike Ahmadinejad, he’s already five years into his holocaust, and he’s not done yet.

Meanwhile the greater holocaust looms while we waste time we don’t have on the deeply stupid distractions Bush and his criminal regime have provided us.

It’s half past too late: We, as a people, as a nation, as the representatives of our civilization and species, have put the gun to our collective head and pulled the trigger, and we’re living in the interval between the shot fired and the splatter on the wall.

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