The Irony of Iran's President

I'll nominate this Quote of the Month!
Newsweek

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may someday qualify for a similar kind of historical ignominy among his own countrymen. Iran's president is probably the last one to realize it, but the joke is on him. Though he is rabidly anti-American, Ahmadinejad has done more to help the Great Satan than anyone since the fellow Iranian he most despises—that great toady of Washington, the Shah.


In fact, Ahmadinejad, who has piled idiocy upon idiocy in a series of offensive remarks that have alarmed the world, has achieved a truly amazing feat. He has made George W. Bush look like a statesman. Since Ahmadinejad has embraced his role as this era’s Muammar Kaddafi, the Bush administration mustered international unity against Iran of the kind that hasn’t been seen since right after September 11.


And now this broad diplomatic front will be put to the test. On Tuesday, the Iranians brazenly removed what nuclear expert David Albright calls the “last major technical hurdle” to a nuclear bomb-breaking the seals on a 164-centrifuge cascade that will allow them to master the process of enriching uranium to bomb-grade purity.


NEWSWEEK has learned that Washington, with likely support from Britain, France and Germany, has called for an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors for as early as next week. The issue will be whether to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council over Tehran’s breach of a previous commitment not to enrich. The Americans and Europeans are likely to get a quick meeting despite some balking by Russia and China, which fear an automatic referral. Still, Moscow and Beijing are more aligned with Washington than they have been in the past-all thanks to Ahmadinejad. On Wednesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov called Iran's decision “cause for alarm.”

I simply don't trust Bush and his warmongering. As one of my commenters points out, there are other reasons to attack Iran. Bush cannot be too eager to see Iran government end the US Dollar's monopoly of the oil trade, by setting up it's own energy market based on the euro. This would limit the ability of the US government to borrow foreign reserves and force the dollar down in value.