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I quite agree that there's a build-up that feels like the pre-Iraq build-up, and I fear Bush will launch an attack on Iran. (In fact, I said so on this site sometime last summer -- if Iraq stuck in the craw of the Cheney/Rumsfeld crowd, what sticks in it even more is Iran, the third on the list of 1970s defeats for them after Vietnam and Watergate).

All the same, what do you mean by dehumanizing the Iranians with antisemitism? You have to go a fairly long way into conspiracy theory territory to make out that Ahmadinejab didn't utter highly provocative statements and insinuations about the genocide of the European Jews. To oppose Israel, it's not necessary to call the Holocaust in question (and yes, that is the effect of Ahmadinejab's remarks). I don't know why Ahmadinejab spoke as he did, but I don't doubt he did so.

I'm just extremely sorry for most Iranians that the lunatics have taken over the asylum. But why did it happen? Because the US lost the Iraq war, and the winners were the Iranian fanatics.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jan 19th, 2006 at 07:34:41 AM EST
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does not automatically mean all the population think this way. Unfortunately that is not the impression all news reports give.
by observer393 on Fri Jan 20th, 2006 at 09:41:05 AM EST
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