For those insistent that we kiss up to Iran's Ahmadinejad with apologies: We already did.

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In 2000. Covered on the front page of the LA Times:

U.S. to Ease Sanctions on Iran, Notes Errors

By Robin Wright

March 18, 2000

Acknowledging past mistakes in U.S. policy toward Iran, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Friday launched a major overture to Tehran that could open up trade, expedite settlement of frozen assets and lead to a renewal of formal diplomatic relations after 20 years of hostility.

As an initial step toward normalized trade, Albright announced that the United States will lift sanctions that bar imports of Iranian carpets, caviar, pistachios and dried fruit, Iran’s biggest export items after petroleum. But the move stops short of removing a similar prohibition on oil and gas, which account for more than 80% of Iranian export revenue.

In an unprecedented gesture, Albright said the United States now understands Iranian anger over a 1953 CIA operation that toppled a nationalist government and allowed the last shah to return to Iran and preside over a “brutally repressive” regime for a quarter of a century. She acknowledged that the coup was “clearly a setback” for Iran’s political development.

Albright also expressed regret for U.S. support of Baghdad during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, the bloodiest modern Mideast conflict. She said Washington was “regrettably shortsighted … especially in light of our subsequent experiences with Saddam Hussein.”

http://articles.latimes.com/2000/mar/18/news/mn-10114

Get a clue, people. Ahmadinejad is just another noisy politician.

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1. I haven't see that

. . . as much as I have the right-wing trying to conflate Ahmadinejad's words with the intentions of the Obama administration.

It's curious to see the accusation here. I haven't seen any push from Democrats to apologize to him.

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2. I don't get the gist of what you're saying. Most of the countries of this

world have some lousy leaders. Are you critical of the leader or the people? Or are you critical of the leader and his followers in that country?

Every leaders has some following. And as we've found out, some let themselves be self-blinded by the leader.

What are you saying? He's definitely noisy. And way too manipulative for the camera.

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3. In my OP, I submitted two different criticisms:

One to Ahmadinejad for demanding something the Iranians already received and one to those who were quick to support his demands.