Fallon for It
September 25th, 2007Mahmoud Ahmaniac! and William Fallon say:
“Well, you have to appreciate we don’t need a nuclear bomb. We don’t need that. What need do we have for a bomb?” Ahmadinejad said in the “60 Minutes” interview taped in Iran on Thursday. “In political relations right now, the nuclear bomb is of no use. If it was useful it would have prevented the downfall of the Soviet Union.”
He also said that: “It’s wrong to think that Iran and the U.S. are walking toward war. Who says so? Why should we go to war? There is no war in the offing.”
Before leaving Iran, Ahmadinejad said the American people have been denied “correct information,” and his visit will give them a chance to hear a different voice, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Washington has said it is addressing the Iran situation diplomatically, rather than militarily, but U.S. officials also say that all options are open. The commander of the U.S. military forces in the Middle East said he did not believe tensions will lead to war.
“This constant drum beat of conflict is what strikes me, which is not helpful and not useful,” Adm. William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command, said in an interview with Al-Jazeera television, which made a partial transcript available Sunday.
Believe it or not? I, for one, am unsure. I think that Ahmaniac! is a maniac and his threats against the Jewish people should be taken seriously. I don’t believe that he has no interest in building a nuclear bomb. He can’t truly believe that nuclear weapons are useless because they didn’t save the Soviets. And Douglas MacArthur didn’t believe our tensions at the Yalu River would lead to the Chinese intervention in the Korean War, so who knows.