Ahmadinejad & Bush : Birds of a Feather After All That Jazz

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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=7377

Mike Banos
March 29, 2006

The United States and Iran may be sitting on opposite sides of what appears to be a international stand-off on the latter’s nuclear program but it’s remarkable how quickly the leaders of both nations have jumped at the chance to shore up their political base in their respective countries.

Believe it or not, but U.S. President George W. Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad both need each other at this point in their political careers: Bush is the convenient bogeyman the worldwide Islamic Jihad (including Tehran) can always count on to raise their faithful to a holy rage, and keep their minds off domestic problems like poverty, inflation, and corruption.

As a Newsweek report last February 13, 2006 pointed out, Ahmadinejad rallied Iranians round their country’s right to develop a peaceful nuclear program, and they don’t buy the notion that they can’ be trusted with nuclear technology while other countries like the U.S., Israel, and Pakistan can be trusted with atomic bombs.

Bush has been equally adept, raising the specter of a nuclear bogeyman in Iran, even if its means plunging approval ratings (Shades of Phil. Pres. Gloria Arroyo: I will willingly sacrifice my popularity for charter change. Huh? What popularity?) because God forbid the Democrats ride back to power in Congress on those plunging ratings this November!

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[Demeter]

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