Look for this on Sixty Minutes this week. This ought to be interesting:
(CBS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sat down with Mike Wallace in Tehran on Tuesday in a rare, exclusive interview with a Western reporter. In the wide-ranging interview, the Iranian leader comments on President Bush's foreign policy, the lack of relations between Iran and the United States, Hezbollah, Lebanon and Iraq.
Speaking about President Bush's failure to answer his 18-page letter that criticized U.S. foreign policy, Ahmadinejad said, "Well, (with the letter) I wanted to open a window towards the light for the president so that he can see that one can look on the world through a different perspective. … We are all free to choose. But please give him this message, sir: Those who refuse to accept an invitation will not have a good ending or fate. You see that his approval rating is dropping every day. Hatred vis-à-vis the president is increasing every day around the world. For a ruler, this is the worst message that he could receive. Rulers and heads of government at the end of their office must leave the office holding their heads high."
On what the "conducive conditions" would be for Iran to establish relations with the U.S., the president said, "Well, please look at the makeup of the American administration, the behavior of the American administration. See how they talk down to my nation. And this recent resolution passed about the nuclear issue, look at the wording. They have given us — presented us with a package which we are studying right now. We even gave them a date for our response. Ignoring that, they passed a resolution. They want to build an empire. And they don't want to live side-by-side in peace with other nations. The American government, sir, it is very clear to me they have to change their behavior and everything will be resolved. (George W. Bush) believes that his power emanates from his nuclear warhead arsenals. The time of the bomb is in the past, it's behind us. Today is the era of thoughts, dialogue and cultural exchanges."
Portions of the interview will appear on the CBS Evening News on Thursday, Aug. 10 at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT. The entire report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
I'm guessing that, as per usual, the mainstream media is not familiar enough with the language of radical Islam to know whether or not they have even gotten any interesting information out of Ahmadinejad. More than likely, the excerpts here are among his more mundane statements.
I wouldn't be surprised if Ahmadinejad spent the entire interview telling Mike Wallace to his face (in some arcane Islamofascist diplo-speak) that he was going to see to it that he and every other Infidel dies a fiery death within the next month.
Meanwhile, Mike Wallace probably thinks he established a good rapport with ole' Mahmoud.
It would be funnier than Saturday Night Live except for the fact that this guy will soon have his hands on nukes.
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Mike Wallace spoke to the Iranian head of state like Mike Wallace was a Nazi concentration guard talking to a Jewish internee or like Mike Wallace was a slaveowner talking to his slave. I hope the rest of the world does not judge all Americans as being as arrogant, rude and churlish as Mike Wallace was in his interviwed. I have seen convicts with more class than that displayed by Mike Wallace. No doubt, he holds ordinary Americans in the same contempt as he displayed in his churlish treatment of Iran's leader.
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