Ahmadinjad to Imams: "I believe everything that people like you taught me."

Jihad Watch yesterday posted this summary of a recent speech by Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a group of clerics in Mashad, Iran. As Robert notes, even this brief summary is more than what we will hear from the MSM.

It would make little difference to most of the public if they did hear it. The American people have been taught by the MSM and the ostriches in our own leadership that Ahmadhimmijerker is merely a buffoon and a canny politician (interesting combination, that) who is using Iran's nuclear program to get what he wants from the rest of the world. What he wants is the return of the 12th Imam, the Imam Mahdi, who he believes is in control of the world, that time is short and Iran must devote all its resources to bringing about the Mahdi's return. Yet our "practical" leaders and pundits and diplomats refuse to believe that he believes what he is saying.

Our foreign enemies thought that by passing resolutions in the United Nations,
they could stop us from becoming a nuclear country. But with God’s help, now we
are a nuclear country and they cannot do anything about it.

Shia Muslims believe the Mahdi will end his "occultation" and reappear in Mecca when the world has fallen into chaos. The development of nuclear weapons by Iran is a key part of Ahmadinejad's plan to create that chaos by provoking nuclear conflict. There is virtually no other way to interpret his actions and the words he uses to justify them.

From the beginning of humanity, all of the prophets said that the world must be
managed through divine direction. We have to create a situation for the
establishment of divine government...

Let me tell you something, one day one of the grand Ayatollahs, whom many
of you know, told me, “I have heard that you are talking about the return of
Imam Mahdi and that you are in contact with him. Is that right?” I told him that
I believe Imam Mahdi is managing the world. Furthermore, I told him, “Do you
know what my problem is? My problem is that I believe everything people like you
taught me.”

Ahmadinejad is not fool enough to come right out and state that he believes it is his sacred duty to intiate chaos in the world. But for those who understand the mythology of the "12th Imam", the message is clear:

We must solve Iran's internal problems as quickly as possible. Time is
lacking. A movement has started for us to occupy ourselves with our global
responsibilities, which are arriving with great speed.

This is the man with whom Barack Hussein Obama -- child of a Muslim father and stepfather, member of Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright's congregation, student of black liberation theology, admirer of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, friend of Weathermen bombers William and Bernadine Ayers -- has promised to hold "talks" should he be elected President of the United States of America. What sort of "concessions" might he be expected to make in a deal with this devil?