The Americans claimed that Iraq had violated 2 UN resolutions concerning its weapons of mass destruction. So Iraq had to be invaded and destroyed but no-one goes to invade let alone destroy Israel for developing and stockpiling all kinds of WMD besides being in breach of 39 UN Security Council Resolutions. To the hard luck of the Americans and their stooges, Iraq didn't have WMD. American foreign policy supported by the miltary is an insult to people intelligence. Obama or President Watermelon will not be able to change people perception about American brutal double standards and unjust selective morality.
Shame on Obama . Shame on America. The Israelis are in total control of
American foreign policy. Nothing is more umiliating to Obama than having the
Israelis boycotting his speech at the United Nations.
What is left and right in politics has been confused following the collapse of the Soviet Union. For example, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev is to the left of Mr Yeltsin although both belonged to the communist party. And the position of Mr Tony Blair, the former UK Prime Minister of the leftist labour party, can be easily classified as being to the right of the British conservative party. In Iraq, the Iraqi communist party accepted the brutal US occupation and took part in the US-established political process, while religious leaders like Shiite Saayd Muqtada Al-Sadra and Sunni Dr Hareth Al-.Dhari have opposed it. In my opinion, all those who support the US occupation and control of Iraqi affairs must be considered as representing the extreme right who betrayed Iraq, while all those who are carrying arms and fighting it are the real leftists, regardless of their religious or political affiliation. I call on the various splinter groups of the left (including the three communist parties of Iraq) to unite and to embrace the Iraqi resistance. Furthermore, Mr Ahmedinejad, Mr Hannia of Hamas, and Sayyad Hassan Nassulrallh of Hizbullah who are opposing the USraeli hegemony and aggression must be regarded as the revolutionary leaders of the new left movement in the Islamic and Arab worlds.
Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times
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By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer – Fri Sep 24, 5:23 pm ET
NEW YORK – President Barack Obama and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traded heated remarks Friday on the emotional subject of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and hopes for a quick resumption of talks on Iran's suspect nuclear program appeared to fade.
Obama accused Ahmadinejad of making "offensive" and "hateful" comments when he said most of the world thinks the United States was behind the attacks to benefit Israel. The Iranian president defended his remarks from a day earlier at the United Nations General Assembly and suggested that a fact-finding panel be created by the U.N. to look into who was behind them.
"It was offensive," Obama said in an interview with the Persian service of the BBC that was to be broadcast to the Iranian people. "It was hateful."
"And particularly for him to make the statement here in Manhattan, just a little north of ground zero, where families lost their loved ones, people of all faiths, all ethnicities who see this as the seminal tragedy of this generation, for him to make a statement like that was inexcusable," Obama said.
Obama said Ahmadinejad's remarks will make the American people even more wary about dealing with his government.
"For Ahmadinejad to come to somebody else's country and then to suggest somehow that the worst tragedy that's been experienced here, an attack that killed 3,000 people, was somehow the responsibility of the government of that country, is something that defies not just common sense but basic sense — basic senses of decency that aren't unique to any particular country — they're common to the entire world," he said
In a news conference at a Manhattan hotel, Ahmadinejad shot back, saying he had not made any judgments about who was responsible for 9/11 and lashed out at the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as an overreaction to the attacks.
"I did not pass judgment, but don't you feel that the time has come to have a fact finding committee," he said of his General Assembly address that prompted the U.S. delegation to walk out of the session along with those from all 27 European Union nations, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Costa Rica.
America should "not occupy the entire Middle East ... bomb wedding parties ... annihilate an entire village just because one terrorist is hiding there," Ahmadinejad said.
Accusations that the U.S. or Israeli governments were culpable in the Sept. 11 attacks surfaced not long after U.S. authorities blamed young Arab men for hijacking American passenger jets and crashing them into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
A survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project in 2006 found that majorities of Muslims in Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt and Jordan said they did not believe groups of Arabs carried out the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks. The survey also found that just over half the Muslims in Great Britain held similar opinions, as did almost a fifth of Muslims in the U.S.
Ahmadinejad routinely makes incendiary remarks, including verbal threats to destroy Israel, that the West believes are aimed at diverting attention from heavy international pressure on Tehran to end uranium enrichment and prove that it is not trying to build a nuclear weapon.
Iran, which insists it is enriching uranium only to fuel nuclear reactors to generate electricity, is under four sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions as punishment for its failure to make its nuclear ambitions transparent.
It has continued to defy international demands to come clean about its intentions despite offers of incentives to cooperate.
Earlier this week, the five permanent members of the Security Council — the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China — and Germany renewed their invitation for Iran to return to the table amid signs that Tehran might be willing to resume long-stalled negotiations.
Ahmadinejad said Friday that he thought Iran might be able reopen contact next month to set a framework for negotiations with the group, known as the P5+1. He added that he would "consider" a halt to uranium enrichment if an outside source would provide the 20-percent enriched fuel Iran needs for a medical research reactor.
But Obama seemed unimpressed with the Iranian position. He sharply criticized Iran's leadership for hurting its people by incurring severe financial and trade sanctions when it refuses to comply.
"Right now what the Iranian government has said is, it's more important for us to defy the international community, engage in a covert nuclear weapons program, than it is to make sure that our people are prospering," he told the BBC. "And the international community I don't think prefers the choice that has been taken."
Obama stressed, however, that the door to negotiations remains open. Ahmadinejad has so far refused to return to talks because of the latest round of sanctions that followed Iran's failure to respond to Obama's initial overtures.
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Associated Press writer Mark S. Smith contributed to this report.
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Obama is an 'international villain': Iranian speaker
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran's parliament speaker on Saturday called US President Barack Obama an "international villain" for saying the United States supports the Iranian people's democratic aspirations.
"How dare Obama announce that he wants to help the Iranian nation? He should know that he is an international villain," Ali Larijani was quoted by ISNA news agency as saying during a visit to the southern city of Shiraz.he said.
"The Americans are displaying an act that deserves an international evilness medal... Mr Obama should know that we do not need his message, what we need is to be able to trust the words he utters,"
Larijani's remarks came a day after the American leader told the BBC's Persian service that the door for diplomacy with Tehran was still open over its long-standing nuclear dispute with the international community.
"Our strong preference is to resolve these issues diplomatically. I think that's in Iran's interest. I think that is in the interest of the international community," Obama said.
"I think it remains possible, but it is going to require a change in mindset inside the Iranian government," he said.
Asked if he was for or against the Iranian people in their struggle for greater freedoms, Obama said Washington supports democratic aspirations.
"The answer is that for those who aspire to have their voices heard, to participate in a democracy that recognises their human dignity -- we will always stand with them."
Relations between Tehran and Washington have become increasingly fraught since the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidency began in 2005, and over his defiant pursuit of Iran's controversial nuclear programme.
Ahmadinejad, while attending the UN General Assembly session in New York this week, said Tehran was open to new nuclear talks provided the United States and Western powers were respectful to the Islamic republic.
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