Who would win the debate?

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Sappho

poll

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.

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4 Responses to Who would win the debate?

  1. Michael says:
    August 31, 2006 at 14:18

    We would need a trans­la­tion for Bush or at least some­one capa­ble of explain­ing what he actu­ally means. :)

  2. Jon says:
    August 31, 2006 at 17:47

    US: Iran leader’s call for Bush debate a diversion

    The United States on Tues­day urged Iran’s pres­i­dent to rethink his rejec­tion of an August 31 UN dead­line to halt ura­nium enrich­ment, and dis­missed his call for a TV debate with Pres­i­dent George W Bush.

    If Iran ignores the dead­line, sanc­tions by the UN Secu­rity Coun­cil are likely to be swift and ‘cer­tainly will have an impact on the coun­try,’ US State Depart­ment spokesman Tom Casey warned.

    The Secu­rity Coun­cil last month gave Iran until Thurs­day to sus­pend ura­nium enrich­ment and other dis­puted nuclear activ­i­ties or face pos­si­ble sanctions.

    ‘There’s still time for them to do it,’ Casey said.

    Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad ear­lier Thurs­day flatly rebuffed the UN dead­line, telling a news con­fer­ence in Tehran that his coun­try would not bow to ‘threats and ultimatums.’

    He also chal­lenged Bush to a tele­vised debate ‘about world devel­op­ments,’ a pro­posal ridiculed by the State Department.

    ‘I think this is a dis­trac­tion,’ Casey told reporters.

    ‘And I also think it’s some­what odd for the pres­i­dent of a coun­try that represses all debate within its own soci­ety to be talk­ing about free and open exchange of ideas.’

    The UN dead­line is backed by Britain, China, France, Rus­sia and the United States — the five veto-holding coun­cil mem­bers — plus Ger­many. The six pow­ers have offered Iran a pack­age of incen­tives if it stops ura­nium enrichment.

    It is the council’s tough­est action yet to keep Iran from build­ing any nuclear weapons — an aim the Iran denies, say­ing its pro­gramme is purely for the civil­ian pur­pose of gen­er­at­ing electricity.

  3. Michael says:
    August 31, 2006 at 19:27

    “If Iran ignores the dead­line, sanc­tions by the UN Secu­rity Coun­cil are likely to be swift and ‘cer­tainly will have an impact on the coun­try,’ US State Depart­ment spokesman Tom Casey warned. ”

    Don’t these peo­ple know any­thing? Rus­sia and China will not allow sanc­tions against Iran.

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