Who would win a debate on world issues between Pres­i­dent Bush and Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Ahmadinejad?

Bush 37% — 40540 votes

Ahmadine­jad 63% — 68839 votes

CNN Poll

Full Text of Pres. Ahmadinejad’s Let­ter to Ger­man Chancellor

For some­time I have been think­ing why some nations that their his­tory shows they have indeed had an impor­tant and promi­nent share and role in mate­r­ial and spir­i­tual progress of mankind in var­i­ous are­nas of sci­ence, arts, phi­los­o­phy, lit­er­a­ture and pol­i­tics and were mak­ers of civ­i­liza­tion are not allowed to be proud as a nation of their his­tor­i­cal accom­plish­ments and play their deserved and con­struc­tive role on the global arena. They try to keep the black cloud of humil­i­a­tion and shame hang­ing over their heads. And even more regret­tably, some of the lead­ers of such a nation regard this sit­u­a­tion befit­ting them and their nation and try to jus­tify it.

This is really an aston­ish­ing phe­nom­e­non in today’s world. The pro­pa­ganda machin­ery after World War II has been so colos­sal that has caused some peo­ple to believe that they are the guilty party by his­tor­i­cal accounts and must pay the penalty fort the wrongs com­mit­ted by their fore­fa­thers for suc­ces­sive gen­er­a­tions and for indef­i­nite period of time.