I go away for a week and when i come back little it seems everything changed.
Firstly, Ahmadinejad is gone and there is a new guy in sitting in his place in Iran. Even the Americans who it seems are lawfully obliged to make a statement on everything that doesn't concern them, have offered a cautious welcome to the election of Mr Hassan Rouhani who is seen as a moderate.
Then the Russian President Putin is in Downing Street saying the UK and US have blood on their hands for wanting to arm people even Cameron described as 'terrorists who pose a great danger to our world' but still wants to give them powerful weapons anyway.
The Russian has said he will arm the Government while the US have said they send will arm the rebels because 90,000 deaths isn't nearly enough. More petrol on that fire is the only answer it seems for people safely living thousands of miles away.
Then another 1970's presenter, Stuart Hall, after months of describing the allegations as 'nonsense', the victims as 'liars' and part of a vendetta against people in the public eye, admitted to indecently assaulting the 13 girls spanning three decades and involving children aged as young as nine. The outrageous 15 months sentence (reduced from 20 months after his guilty plea) is now being examined by the Attorney General to see if the sentence was unduly lenient.
I think i'm up to speed now although i'm not sure why Ozzy Osbourne is on the front of a newspaper making the number 1 sign, unless the country has gone mad and he has a song at number 1.
I see. Yep, Britain is officially bonkers.
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It's the whole album at #1!... 43 years after their last #1 album!
Sabbaaaaaaath! :->
Go anywhere nice?
Is it a new album or a greatest hits collection?
We went to Amesbury, hippy and druid spotting but a week too early.
apparently the americans don't agree with you that the president of iran is none of their business. since the prior iranian president openly addimitted to wanting to obliterate a US ally, i'd argue that the president of iran is american business. likewise, the american president is iranian business...
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i often remind executives that some problems can't be solved (the consequences are too bitter to pursue). syria, the whole middle east, fall into the category of unsolvable for the west. all you can do is manage the situation. thus, you partner with enemies, snub acquaintances, and on rare occasions change allies.
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I guess you are referring to the speech where Ahmadinejad never actually used the words 'map' 'wipe out' or even 'Israel'. That misquote sure did get some mileage. Did the job of demonising him very well though.
I suppose that techncially you are correct. here is what I think he said...
In July 2012, ahead of Qods Day, Ahmdainejad said that "any freedom lover and justice seeker in the world must do its best for the annihilation of the Zionist regime in order to pave the path for the establishment of justice and freedom in the world," and that the ultimate objective of world forces must be the annihilation of the "Zionist regime".
people being technical is what politicians count on. i think it naive to ignor the message behind the message...
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And the fact that he was quoting what the Ayatollah Khomeini once said.
I never doubted that Ahmadinejad was a bit of a pillock, but his actual influence on Iranian policy was always vastly overstated in the west (often deliberately, for political/strategic reasons). He was nothing like 'Iran's Gaddafi'.
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