The Oppressor in Chief Cries Foul
It must’ve felt surreal for the oppressed students at Amir Kabir University to hear Mahmoud Ahmadinejad call the students oppressors. As strange as it seems, that’s exactly what happened, according to this article.
Ahmadinejad responded by describing those students chanting the slogans as an “oppressive” minority. “A small number of people who claim there is oppression are creating oppression and do not let the majority hear (my) words,” he said. According to the student news agency ISNA, Ahmadinejad responded to the students’ chants of “students can die but they do not accept degradation” by lashing out at the United States. “Today, the worst type of dictatorship in the world is the American dictatorship which has been clothed in human rights,” he said. “Our students are free and they fight and die but do not accept the foreigners’ missions or bend to them,” he added.
“It is my honour to burn for the sake of the nation’s ideals and defend the system,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as telling protesters who set fire his picture, ISNA said. “Americans must know that even if Ahmadinejad’s body is burnt a thousand times for this purpose, Ahmadinejad will not retreat even a centimetre from these ideals.” The Iranian president’s speech was also interrupted by firecrackers, ISNA said.
The ISG would do well to remember that the people in Iran, Saddam’s Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia & Syria think of their governments as the oppressors. They view Americans as liberators to a degree, though that doesn’t mean they like us staying a long time. Michael Ledeen’s book The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We’ll Win. talks extensively how to foment insurrection against the Iranian mullahs. Mr. Ledeen has long been an advocate of covert operations that foment unrest and supplying arms to the Iranian students.
Last Tuesday, I wrote about Fr. Ken Joseph’s columns from Iraq and about his conversion from peace activist and human shield to admitting that he was wrong about trying to prevent the Iraq war.
The moral to this story is that the governments that were in place during Baker’s time as Secretary of State were the oppressors. President Bush used 9/11 to establish a new group of democratically elected regimes as a longterm solution to the tyrannical rule of the region’s oppressors. The people that would qualify as oppressors includes Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
December 12th, 2006 at 2:24 am
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November 19th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
[...] Glory be to Allah, may they crush the evil U.S. empire and replace it with terrorism, oppression of women, anti-semitism, fanaticism, censorship and socialist dogma. A better world can they offer for all, no doubt. The alliance between Chavez and Ahmadinejad has blossomed with several exchanged visits — Monday’s was Chavez’s fourth time in Tehran in two years — a string of technical agreements and a torrent of rhetoric presenting their two countries as an example of how smaller nations can stand up to the superpower. [...]