{"id":90,"date":"2006-05-08T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/the-proper-response-from-bush-to-ahmadinejad\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T14:29:00","slug":"the-proper-response-from-bush-to-ahmadinejad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-proper-response-from-bush-to-ahmadinejad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Proper Response from Bush to Ahmadinejad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look at this:
My Way News – Officials: Iran’s President Writes to Bush<\/a>
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“In the letter, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposes “new solutions for getting out of international problems and the current fragile situation of the world,” spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham told a news conference.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This took me about fifteen seconds, but I’m a little slow tonight. Here is what President Bush should tell his polar opposite:<\/p>\n

“The next time I speak to an Iranian dictator it will be over your dead body. Trust is important and I will never trust you. If you think that you’ll get a different answer when I am no longer President, you go ahead and wait. You and the horse you rode in on. Meanwhile, your nucular [sic] program needs to stop. NOW.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The beauty<\/b> of this is that it not only shows Iran that we will not be bought off with vaguely intimated hopes, and that we know without a doubt that there is no hope behind the slippery dictator’s words, just more delays for the West to accept while the “Iranhattan Project” continues; it also shows the rest of the world, bad guys and good, that the United States will not be shoved around just because elections loom in 2006 and 2008.<\/p>\n

Beyond Beauty<\/b>, however, lies virtue, and the virtue<\/b> of this is that even if the Republicans lost the White House, House, Senate, Five justices and all of the State Governorships to the Democrats; the Democrats would still<\/i> be forced to take a tough line with Iran. Nothing is guaranteed, but this is as close as it gets, and there is truly nothing to lose but time and freedom to act.<\/p>\n

For those who are inclined to argue that my plan prejudices any productive outcome of working with rather than against Iran, please see the previous post, entitled “Pony”<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Look at this:
My Way News – Officials: Iran’s President Writes to Bush<\/a>
<\/b><\/p>\n

“In the letter, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposes “new solutions for getting out of international problems and the current fragile situation of the world,” spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham told a news conference.”<\/p>\n

This took me about fifteen seconds, but I’m a little slow tonight. Here is what President Bush should tell his polar opposite:<\/p>\n

“The next time I speak to an Iranian dictator it will be over your dead body. Trust is important and I will never trust you. If you think that you’ll get a different answer when I am no longer President, you go ahead and wait. You and the horse you rode in on. Meanwhile, your nucular [sic] program needs to stop. … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}