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‘America Is Hated Around The World’ Because Of Obama’s Foreign Policy, Ahmadinejad Tells Fareed Zakaria

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In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said America was hated around the world and should re-examine their policies. “They should see where the problem is — maybe the problem is in the United States itself. This is a friendly recommendation,” Ahmadinejad said.

Ahmadinejad criticized NATO’s intervention in the Libyan conflict. “In the beginning, we recommended a dialogue between the two sides and all parties, but they did not pay attention to our recommendations. And, of course, NATO intervention was effective in exacerbating the conflict. We have not received any statistics about the losses from both sides and I think instead of intervention, NATO could help to promote a dialogue among all parties.”

Ahmadinejad reserved most of his vitriol in slamming American foreign policy.

“The United States has become weaker and weaker,” Ahmadinejad sniped. “And now, they are hated in the region. They are hated in the whole world. Anywhere in the world, if you go, you see that the U.S. government is hated.”

“We must be very much happy if their policies fail everywhere in the world and we should encourage them, ‘OK, go on, go on.’ And if we were not since, we should encourage the United States to remain in Iraq and in Afghanistan because they have already been mired in those two countries.”

“But we sympathize with all people of the world,” Amadinejad continued. “We say, ‘Why Afghans should be killed? Why American soldiers should lose their lives? Why they should spend so much money for killing people instead of using the money for development?’ That is very simple. Maybe the U.S. administration does not accept that. But believe me, continuation of these policies are going to lead to the collapse of the U.S. empire. And it is against the interests of the people of the United States.”

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  • Anonymous

    Let’s hear it

  • Anonymous

    Let’s hear it

  • Ardiva

    Seems to me that this character is doing his best to spout propaganda. America is NOT hated around the world, only by him.

  • Oliver Hunter

    Unfotunately the man is correct.
    Read the editorials from around the world.

  • Anonymous

    If President Ahmadinejad thinks America is hated around the world for President Obama’s foreign policy—or lack thereof—he is going to really hate it when we throw President Obama out after one term in office and elect a Republican Conservative with some foreign policy experience, an ongoing commitment to a strong military,  and a coherent world view that doesn’t have him traveling overseas on a regular basis to bow to foreign dictators and apologize for America.  While I was stationed in Europe in the mid-1980′s a French captain—we were drinking wine together at the time—made the classic snobbish European “Do you know what is wrong with the United States?” comment to me, but what he said made eminent sense.  He said, “America is the world’s sole remaining super power, but doesn’t know how to be one.  Both America as a whole and Americans as individuals want everyone to love them.  It is not important for a Great Power to be loved, it is important that a Great Power be respected.”

  • Anonymous

    Yikes…….I cannot believe that I agree with him……Shazam.

  • mosesdinoark

    “…and elect a Republican Conservative with some foreign policy experience”…Oh yea? Which of tHe dolts running right now is this?  This I gotta hear!

  • mosesdinoark

    “.and a coherent world view .”…HAHAH ! Who? Hillbilly Perry? hahah

  • http://www.facebook.com/mitchell.s.gilbert Mitchell S. Gilbert

    President “loonie-tunes” of Iran, never fails to entertain the world with his sheep-herder take on the world.  Yes, as many others have noted, the fact that a lying, illegitimate dictator despises President Obama and his foreign policy, means we’re doing something right.  I know such facts emotionally pain and trouble conservative ideologues who don’t think Obama knows how to wipe his own ass, but too bad.  The facts speak otherwise.  Bravo P. Obama, SS Clinton!

  • http://www.facebook.com/mitchell.s.gilbert Mitchell S. Gilbert

    and suppose you ethnic/nationalist background doesn’t influence you opinion one bit, does it Mr. Hunter?  You are a perfectly objective reader of Al Jezera.

  • Anonymous

    If the next Republican president is anything like the last Republican stooge, whose policy strengthened Iran’s standing in the region, they will love him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    We’re hated for our empire (which is despicable) and because so many countries have made themselves dependent on us (which is their own damn fault).

  • mosesdinoark

    Ok ..Maybe Huntsman..but you guys hate him because he belongs to a cult and believes in science.

  • Anonymous

    Alright let the denial and jingoistic rhetoric begin… from both sides, the real xenophobes from the right and the little chicken-hawks on the left with their insufficiency complexes that they think they can overcome by sounding more aggressive than the real blood-thirsties on the right… go for it

  • Billanderson_9

    The headline is propaganda and this journalist is no
    better than a supermarket tabloid repeating it in this context, I am aware of
    freedom of speech but this crosses the line.

  • sem

    i think he is right, u should do your research Ardiva and stop consoling yo self

  • Anonymous

    So now the dictator of Iran is the voice of sensibility. . .?  gimme a break!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Edwards/588445226 David Edwards

    If I did this story I would have emphasized Ahmadijejad’s comments on Zionism. 

  • Norbit

    LOL!

    And the Democrats – and THEIR MEDIA – told us for 8 years it was Bush’s fault!

    LMAO!

  • sem

    I agree wth you, and does respect come from invading others, and threatening those that dont agree with US policies? Countries have different values and cultures that need to be respected save for the few outragious cultures.

  • Michelle

    Why does Mediaite refuse to post the part where Fareed (A self-proclaimed Barry adviser) says the Iraq withdrawal is a win for Iran?

  • Anonymous

    So the weakling Zakaria goes to Iran and provides a platform for this high school dropout.

  • Anonymous

    …That puts us at 100% sem.  I don’t think invading other countries or threatening them makes much sense either, unless they have made war upon or materially harmed America or Americans.  The exceptions for me, and I suspect they are yours also, are that respect for others’ cultures doesn’t include condoning “honor killings”, executing homosexuals, or stoning women who have been raped.  I am also not big on throwing acid in the faces of girls on the way to school to learn to read and do math.

  • Michelle

    And that once Barry was elected, the seas would part and the rest of the world would love us!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I have done just that. On the whole, there is simply no comparision: Obama is generally highly admired, and almost no one, and CERTAINLY no one who is not dependent on aid from Iran, has anything positive to say about Amadinejad or Iran.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Sounds great until you start to do the numbers: 5% of the world population, 20-25% of the world’s consumption of energy stocks, biggest national armed forces in the world – that sounds like a big fat selfish gluttonous armed bully, not a Great Power.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Then there’s something wrong with you.

  • Anonymous

    As usual, Michelle, you show that you’re completely tone deaf. There’s a disturbing disconnect between what people actually say and what you think you hear. You do this again and again. 

    I’ve never encountered anyone who talked more and listened less. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Increasingly the world is NOT dependent on us, because we have proven we cannot be trusted to use our military power in any rational reasonable way towards peace and stability, but rather use it to seize and secure energy stocks. Every empire does this, and every empire gets hated for it, and every empire falls and falls hard. Most of them never recover: Carthage, Rome, the Ottoman Empire, Spain, Britain, all now small and silly and unempowered. I see no reason why the U.S. should avoid this same fate.

  • Anonymous

    Rex do you just make this stuff up as you go along or do the “voices” speak to you in your head?  Yes, we are a rich country.  Do you think we should be poor? If we all shivered in the cold and the dark and were malnourished would that make you feel better?   Since the U.S. is a net exporter of food to the rest of the world, how would that help anyone else?  And no, we don’t have “the biggest national armed forces in the world”.  That would be the Russians and the Chinese.

  • Anonymous

    Care to explain why?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    But late last week you were arguing this was W’s withdrawal plan. Which is it, Michelle-in-Utah. You have to just one, just one.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Maybe, maybe not. Iran is torn about Iraq, and does not wish to be responsible for it, but also fears it. This makes sense: they have a big common border and a lot of regilous turmoil. No one can forecast what will happen out of this; it may actually turn out that Iran will turn more secular in order to oppose the fundamentalism Shiite forces in Iraq, because they may have to in order to survive as a state. I very much doubt the two states will merge, because Iraq has so many Sunni and so many Kurds, and Iran does not want to import those sorts of new problems.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    If Ahmadinejad hates President Obama, it is a great foreign policy victory for President Obama and his policies. Another one, to start the new week!

  • Anonymous

    If one of the airheaded idiots that represents the Repubs get’s elected, America will be just as hated. Maybe even more.  Repubs are after all, great war mongers.

    When it comes right down to it, watching both sides continually make fools of themselves, there’s not one Repub or Dem, that’s worthy of the job. 

  • Anonymous

    O.K. Jayson, do you want to go down the list of modern presidents and see how many Democrat versus Republican presidents got us into wars?  I don’t think you will like the results…  Let’s see:  Wilson—WWI, FDR—WWII, Truman—Korea, Kennedy/Johnson—Vietnam,  Bush—Iraq & Afghanistan, Obama—Libya, and most lately Central Africa(Uganda, Somalia & the Central African Republic).  Any questions about “warmongers”?

  • Anonymous

    Ah, you best do some research.  America IS hated around the world, and has been for some time.

    http://samvak.tripod.com/pp112.html

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed128.html

    http://www.cam.net.uk/home/aaa315/peace/why.htm

  • caconservative

    Seems the Muslims smelled fear, and a weakness in Obimbo and their using it against him. That same weakness we see in him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A4OJ2F7ADXSD7OMEUUEQDQDZ2Y Dustin Baker

    Wow.  The president of Iran is smarter than the president of the United States.  It’s come to this.

  • Anonymous

    Republipukes and cons are scared of everything. Verminous chicken-littles.

  • Anonymous

    Ahmadinejad is right.
    “But we sympathize with all people of the world,” Amadinejad continued. “We say, ‘Why Afghans should be killed? Why American soldiers should lose their lives? Why they should spend so much money for killing people instead of using the money for development?’ That is very simple. Maybe the U.S. administration does not accept that. But believe me, continuation of these policies are going to lead to the collapse of the U.S. empire. And it is against the interests of the people of the United States.””

    This is simply unvarnished truth. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. 

  • Anonymous

    ahhh – how soon you forget!  How about Obama?  Never listens, just keeps saying the same thing over and over and over…

    Why is Michelle tone deaf?  Because flush said so?  Seriously, start thinking for yourself.

  • Anonymous

    If that is true then why do they all want to come here? Everyone still looks at the USA as the land of freedom and promise. The ignoramus in charge of Iran is a foolish despot and you can’t trust a word his puppet mouth expels.

  • Anonymous

    Ditto! 

  • Anonymous

    They forget George Bush did NOTHING about Ahmad. 

  • Anonymous

    How is it propaganda? That is basically what the Iranian prez said.

  • Anonymous

    Ahmadinejad is never right. He is a puppet of the ruling mullahs. He only says what they allow him to say and most of it is Anti-American, or haven’t you noticed yet?

    The US has no empire. We do have diplomatic relations with most of the nations on earth. We give them billions in foreign aid, and they give us what they can. This is a symbiotic relationship. We offer them protection from foreign enemies and aid them in defending their people, but that is not an empire. The empire exists in the minds of your propagandist masters, and they use it to turn people like you into tools they can use against the US.

    As far as the truth is concerned, you have shown you don’t know as much as you think you do.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, there was a turn around. I know you have a problem with these little things called “facts.”
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/116350/position-world.aspx
    Compare Obama’s numbers v/s Bush’s.

  • Anonymous

    Hated by racists, terrorists, leftists, anarchists, jihadists, and communists. That is not everyone in the world, merely a fraction of the world’s population.

  • Anonymous

    When was the last time you looked in the mirror?

  • Anonymous

    You have stated in the past that Fareed’s commentary is to be ignored because he’s an Obama shill. Therefore, you can not ask us to watch something he stated (because it agrees with your viewpoint.) That is simply buffoonery. 

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    If macmoody i’manutjob thinks President Obama is doing something wrong, then obviously Iran’s president is a republican’t who has studied the teachings of that venezeulan immigrant (whence the natural tan) Speaker OHBohner.

  • Hyperbolic Chalkboard

    but he’s right..our foreign policy is more like mafia policy…prop them up, give them resources,get us bankrupt, bring em down, prop another one up…if we continue on this path..our fate will be the same as the soviet union

  • Anonymous

    “You think?”

  • PrezOworst

    why is Aquavelvadad still breathing unassisted.  Iran would be happy if he had an accident.

  • Anonymous
  • Ricci Dats Me

    WELL WELL WELL.. looks like we have yet another VERY STRANGE entry into the “how much more can we prove, America has some internal “division” issues” contest. 1. IF you are an American, and you give a tiny bit of your pinky finger about this place, WHO CARES WITH THE IRAN NUT PRESIDENT SAYS ABOUT ANYTHING OUR PRESIDENT DOES REGARDLESS OF WHO IS THE PRESIDENT;, and 2. IF you find a way to repeat or say ANYTHING about what this crazy nut job says, in a negative way, about OUR (YOUR) country, in a matter that places you against another American.. THINK ABOUT IT…

  • LarryB

    Most of what comes out of this guy’s mouth is sheer insanity. But, in this case he made an accurate statement that the U.S. government is hated. I believe that it’s not Americans, in general, that are hated (and I’ve seen polls supporting that), but our elected officials who ignore our own constitution and take us into undeclared wars, sticking our nose where it doesn’t belong. Our government tries shoving democracy down everyone’s throats and tells them they must act in a certain manner, but then we break our own rules (for example, murdering a 16-year-old American citizen without trial). That not only kills innocent people, but it kills whatever credibility our government has (and both Bush and Obama have been guilty).

  • Anonymous

    You obviously ignored my last sentence. I’m loyal to no side, never have been, as both have been and still are the cause of great suffering to other countries.  As for repubs being warmongers, that’s my opinion of them. Repubs are the most willing to destroy other countries cultures, as well as slaughter thousands of innocent people at the drop of a hat. Dems are second. 

    Build up the military, spend as much as needed, wipe those people out, so what if we lose thousands of our own doing so. That to me, is the mantra of the repubs. 

    In a nutshell. Repubs only thought is to to spend money on military, they don’t give a rats ass about spending money, to help the many Americans who are barely surviving.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares what this guy says? He’s just mad cause homosexuals can live here and do not survive very well in Iran. He’s jealous.

  • Chasmc

    when this guy doesn’t like you, it is a real compliment.

  • Tucsonense

    That doesn’t even make sense.

  • Anonymous

    What does your comment(s) have to do with this idiotic leader of iran???

  • Anonymous

    Silly me, Jason…  and I thought “warmongers” were people who started and fought wars.  Just because in your opinion Republicans are “warmongers” that doesn’t make it fact…  It just makes it your opinion.  I presented you with the facts and you ignored them.  And if you are so concerned with “many Americans who are barely surviving” I suggest that you donate a substantial part of your income to helping them, if you have an income—but don’t expect the government to involuntarily tax money out of the rest of us who actually work hard at our jobs and give it to people too stupid or lazy to take advantage of the opportunities in this country to get ahead.  We have the richest poor people in the world in the U.S.  They have public education, free housing, food, free medical care and all kinds of other public services.  If you had ever been in a 3rd-world country you would know what “poor” is.

  • Bob Uda

    I thought Obama said during the 2008 campaign that he would make the world a safer place to live and that he would make the United States respected again in the world.  However, the world hates us even more because of Obama’s policies, which are basically Bush’s policies.  So, he’s going to blame it all on Bush again when things get worse?  He had a choice, and he chose to retain Bush’s policies.  What an idiot!

  • Indigo710

    highly admired by who?

  • Madam Deb

    Let’s see, was it the “fear” or the “weakness” that enabled Obama to take down Osama bin Laden, al-Awaki, and Ghadaffi? Which one was it that caused him to have those Somali pirates killed and saved American citizens lives?

    You people are so desperate that you’re willing to agree with the world’s most hated despot instead of backing your own country and its president. There is a special place in hell for you, I’m sure.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “The United States has become weaker and weaker,” Ahmadinejad sniped. “And now, they are hated in the region. They are hated in the whole world. Anywhere in the world, if you go, you see that the U.S. government is hated.”

    Well that must have sent a huge tingle up Fareed’s leg.

  • Ccrazyhorz

    UDA, you are sooooo LAME. Can’t you see that Ahmadeinajah is trying to say ALL of this hate, because he can’t beat the U.S.  A coward is always there to BLAME someone else if they can’t ACCOMPLISH what they want to get done… Have you FORGOT about the Iranian government taking the AMERICAN HOSTAGES, and keeping them PRISONERS for over 300 days… GET A LIFE, douchebag.

  • Ccrazyhorz

    Dustin, when the Iran president can S TOOP this low, it is because he can’t do ANYTHING on his own, and CRITICIZM is his best ALLIE.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe Ahmadinejad worried he is next on Drone patrol.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    LMAO! Now Shelly Bachmann has to admit she and Ahmedinnerjacket are in agreement.  Gee, wonder why Dinner Jacket thinks he can insult our President …. maybe b/c traitors in the GOP have no respect for the office of President of the United States?

  • Anonymous

    This is the magic of Michelle. She’ll slam the NY Times in the morning as disreputable left wing propaganda and then link to it two hours later. 

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Are you REALLY using Ahmedinnerjacket to support your position?   You are more pathetic than I though.

  • http://twitter.com/AminCad AminCad

    He’s right that current US foreign policy projects cost a huge amount of resources, lead to too many military interventions, and create hostility against the US in many countries.

    Ron Paul has been warning and making accurate predictions about this for 30 years:

    http://youtu.be/sLtdFtSAmLw

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Hilariously sad how conservative ideologists are agreeing with this Iranian despot. Blind idiocy. Obama is kicking ass throughout the fundamentalist islamic world and you wads just keep spinning your bull sh*t.

  • http://twitter.com/AminCad AminCad

    Wanting to live in a country and liking that country’s foreign policy are two very different things.

    Pretending that the US government is perfect is not patriotic.

  • Bob Uda

    Ccrazyhorz, it takes one to know one.  Once Ahmadinejad develops the nuclear weapon, he will be able to beat the United States because he would have achieved nuclear parity.  Obama has no chutzpa, guts, balls, or the political will to keep Iran from developing The Bomb.  Obama blames everyone else for his failures and problems; therefore, taking your rationale, he must also be a coward as is Ahmadinejad. 

    Yes, I fully remember the American hostages in Iran for over 300 days.  I also remember the coward who was POTUS at the time who couldn’t extract them–another weak POTUS (the peanut farmer).  Then, on the day Reagan was inaugurated president, the Iranians released the hostages.  Go figure!

    I have a life, Ccrazyhorz, why don’t you get one too?  Also, why do you go by a pseudonym instead of revealing exactly who you are?  Are you also a progressive coward?  Just asking.  Put your identity where your mouth is, buddy.

  • Anonymous

    Ahmadinejad is a closet homosexual…this according to the Iranian state run press.

  • http://twitter.com/djdawkins36 Hassan Bulkari

    Ask the French if they like Americans. Ask the Australians. Ask the Middle East. Ask the Pakistanis. Ask the Chinese. Hell, ask Mexico. ASK CANADIANS! People dont like us. 

  • Anonymous

    Just like the people who hate doodaddio, if you hate America, you are evil incarnate

  • Anonymous

     Herman Cain would fit that role wonderfully

  • Anonymous

     I hate to say this, but fear breeds respect too

  • Anonymous

     Sorry seek and michelle
    Obama never claimed any of what Michelle said, so what is your point? Oh right, Obama’s teleprompter told him to tell us all he was going to part the seas on 7 PM Nov 7, 2011

  • Anonymous

     Good point, even Hitler had a couple of good points and critiques, amidst his myriad of bad ones.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    And chicken-hawks.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t pretend the US is perfect, but it is a damn sight better than anywhere else on the planet.

    Listening to a tin plated dictator about how to run America certainly isn’t patriotic.

    Too bad Ron Paul is unelectable, huh. Sucks to support a man that most of the country won’t vote for.

  • http://twitter.com/djdawkins36 Hassan Bulkari

    Madam, please. Do not condone someone to hell simply because they have a different opinion. That’s called ignorance. I respect your opinion. Respect others opinions as well. ‘Worlds most hated?’ Please, most of the world could care less about him. We have to look at ourselves! What have we done to make everyone hate us! Let’s try and open our brain and think : ‘What the hell did we do?’ I was just like you, I had this desire to find out why we are hated. I researched for a full month and found out that we are the bully of the world! We have used our CIA to overthrow governments and restore them to (wait for it)…dictatorships. We overthrew J.M Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador because he was allied with Cuba in 1961. We overthrew Juan Bosch from Dominican Republic. When they people protested and wanted Juan Bosch to come back, the United States intervened and crushed what they labeled a ‘communist rebellion’ and restored dictatorship. The United States bombed Vietnam to no end because they were communists. They didn’t simply support the South Vietnamese verse the North Vietnamese. The Southern citizens were publicly burning themselves in public to show their disapproval of the Southern Vietnamese government. The videos are on YouTube check them out. The United States has over 1,000 military bases around the world. The United States supported Mubarak’s regime before the Egyptian people overthrew him. USA still supports Saudia Arabia dictator. Why don’t they bring democracy and freedom to the people of Saudia Arabia? Because it doesn’t meet their interests. Why don’t they stop the killing of Christians in Darfur? Because it doesn’t meet their interests. Did you know that the Iraq war has over 100,000 Iraqi Civilian causalities? Not terrorists, citizen casualties. But hey, my name is Hassan so you might dismiss me as a radical anti-American Muslim. It probably won’t matter to you that I was born and raised in America. So I’m going to let the American soldiers tell you what I have said. Maybe, if you won’t listen to me, you will listen to them. 
    If you have time, please watch this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjcq6Mt8gd0
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOAkjUySFzk&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6hp8HMstkE&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0QYoGynjjc&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwoVOSdElx4&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYz5gawnUeY&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ZjsC3BOBE&feature=related

    I got more where that came from.

  • Anonymous

    The fatal flaw in your thesis is that I would give a crap what or who you hate, libtard. I can tell you are evil by your words.

    Keep living the dream – because most of what you want is never going to happen in real life.

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t get that at all from sara’s post.  I think she’s not impressed with Fareed (the little weasel).
    So, perhaps if you reread the post you’ll see what she was getting at.  

    Too bad you thought she was pathetic, perhaps you’ll rethink that comment also, unless you are really impressed with Fareed.

  • Anonymous

    I guess there must have been traitors when Bush was in office.  Remember the “shoe”?  So, what was your excuse then?  Who were the traitors?

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t agree with her viewpoint.  She thinks (like most sane people) that Fareed “the advisor” is a turn coat and a dangerous twit.  

    Her stating what Fareed said makes her a buffoon?  lol
    Perhaps you should look up the meaning in the dictionary because I don’t think it applies.  

  • Anonymous

    sort of proved her point about the NYTimes didn’t she?  lol

  • Anonymous

    what did Michelle claim that Obama said?  

    Well I’m glad to see that you think Obama’s teleprompter speaks on it’s own.  lol

  • Anonymous

    I agree.  Giving this insane man a platform and allowing him to spew his crap and being interviewed by a whack job who doesn’t ask him when he was released from the psych ward is ludicrous.  

    I have never trusted Fareed.  When I heard that he was an advisor to the Pres. I was less than impressed.  That’s like inviting listeria to dinner and hoping we don’t get sick.  

  • Anonymous

    Don’t trouble conservatives at all.  Perhaps you want to do a google search and see what the left was saying about why we were hated during the Bush era.  

    At that time everyone blamed Bush – Obama was ready willing and able to sit down with this insane dictator with no pre-conditions (because that’s how you convert them to our side – remember)?

    So don’t even try the nonsense about Obama.

    Basically, we’re all saying “we told you so”, which is about as welcome as when your parents told you that.  

  • Anonymous

    what did you want him to do?

  • Anonymous

    So were the mullahs on an earpiece feeding him answers? The context of his comments have veracity. I suggest watching a prior interview of his with George S. of ABC. Ahmad. is not as dumb as some of you Americans think. He’s a despot, and in between his lunatic ramblings, he does open a window to his mind. What he says here is true. Factions of the American political spectrum have been saying what he did for at least a decade. Just look at the lives and $$ spent in the last decade in wars. Do you see the US doing that for another two decades? If you say, “yes” I must have misjudged the extent of your vacuity.

  • Anonymous

    Whatever you think Obama should have done.

  • Anonymous

    Actually it does. When you discredit the credibility of a source, you can not later use that source’s material to validate or support a viewpoint you have in the future with the premise of that source being credible. Understand? It’s a logical fallacy. 
    I called her a buffoon for those mental theatrics.
    Buffoon: A ridiculous but amusing person; a clown.
    Maybe YOU need to know what the word means.

  • Anonymous

    You’re right, it was my opinion. Surprised you didn’t catch that fact since those were my exact words in my past response to you. 

    As for donating a substantial part of my income to helping causes, I’d wager through my working years and now in my retirement years, I’ve donated and still donate a hell of a lot more than you. I’ve also worked hard all my working years to be able to be mortgage free, vehicle/s payments free, debt free, and have enough money set aside for my remaining years. 
     
    As for your asine speal about public education, free housing, food, free medical and all kinds of other public services for the poor, what freaking fantasy land are you living in? Do a quick check on the amount of homeless in America right now, including the disgraceful amount of homeless veterans, men & women, who are homeless as well.
     Why are American veterans who fought for your freedom, homeless?  If the free housing you rave about is available, why are the veterans living on the streets or in shelters? What about the many American families that have lost thier homes to foreclosure and live in tent cities or shelters? Where’s your free housing for them?
    As for your comment about free medical for all poor in America. That’s not even worth replying to. 

  • Porphyry

    Hey Arafat-face! Get  a shave or get a beard! Or do the mullahs fear the power of facial hair on a layman?

  • Anonymous

    Actually, you just made a circular argument and it’s been filed accordingly.
    bah bye now

  • http://twitter.com/Ziggyboy77 Johnnie Dorman

    This moron is one of the most hated people of the world. Stinking dictators always have something stupid to say.

  • Anonymous

    That kind of talk by Dinnerjacket is the best praise any president can get.

  • Anonymous

    I use 24 hour clocks that are always right. Atomic synchronization.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Uh, no. Fareed is using Ahmadinejad to support his. 

    “ You are more pathetic than I thought.” – you are confusing me with someone who cares what, or even whether, you think. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Are you REALLY using Ahmedinnerjacket to support your position?   You are more pathetic than I thought.

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t say the man was dumb, or stupid, after all he was one of the masterminds of storming the US Embassy when Carter was President and he kept the hostages until Reagan was elected. No, I think he is dangerous and evil, but he is definitely not in control of the country of Iran.

    The factions of the American political spectrum that have been in agreement with him haven’t got the best interest of the nation in mind, and they also forget all the attacks that his friends in the middle east have perpetrated on Americans had to be answered, especially when they killed over 3,000 Americans in one day on 9/11/2001. After that attack all arguments that America is hated became moot. The whole world poured their hearts out over that attack, even our enemies with one exception – the muslims. They were not going to stop killing so we had to stop them.

    As far as the war goes, no nation goes to war with the expense or casualties or duration at the forefront of the planning. War is not something you can make a plan in steps and expect the enemy not to exact a toll on you, war is a fluid thing and there is hardly a truly predictable outcome at the beginning. The politicians have been running the wars the US has been in since Korea and they are not experts in tactics. If they were the wars would have a lot shorter, but they have to cater to public opinion and instead of putting an overwhelming force on the ground to end the war quickly, they ration the numbers so it looks good at home. No one expected the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to be this long, but everyone knew that it would be expensive in money and lives. To believe otherwise is foolish. War is a nasty business and should not be engaged in with expectations of it ending quickly. That is hoping for something that seldom occurs.

    If the politicians would have given control of conducting the war to the commanders on the ground, and put the numbers of soldiers and other resources in their control, I don’t believe we would still be in theater today, but with limited resources comes protracted war. That is just the mathematics and history of warfare. 

  • Indigo710

    They envy us. 

  • Indigo710

    It’s all about envy.

  • Indigo710

    ron paul is an isolationist. Isolationism doesn’t work.

  • Indigo710

    We have an empire?

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Circular file? You may be the first reactionary right wing mammal I’ve noticed with a sense of humor. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pad-Dar/100002515504977 Pad Dar

    Well, how perceptive.. And you are right. Obama is just Bush on steroids

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pad-Dar/100002515504977 Pad Dar

    ‘You people are so desperate that you’re willing to agree with the
    world’s most hated despot instead of backing your own country and its
    president.’  PLEASE, put a SOCK in it lady.  You all LOVED Ahmadinejad until he spoke against the black Hitler in the W.H.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sha-Sene/100002856648608 Sha Sene

    You mean like scurred of global warming and unborn babies?

    LOL Thats the Democrats!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sha-Sene/100002856648608 Sha Sene

    Sorry Madam Moron, but Obama inherited Seal Team Six just as they were

    Killing an American citizen without trial is not an accomplishment , it’s a human rights violation

    Killing , at the very least , 25,000 libyan to take out a non-threat to us is NOT an accomplishment, it’s an atrocity.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Can you same a single foreign military base in the United States? Because I name several United States military bases in foreign lands.

    Yeah, what empire?

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    I never said they were dependent on our military, I said they were dependent ON US. Despite our current dabbling in Socialist Progressivism which happens about every couple generations, we are still the largest (mostly) free market on earth representing over a quarter of the world’s economic activity despite only having around 5% of the world’s population.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sha-Sene/100002856648608 Sha Sene

    The goal was never “to be liked by the world”
    Most of the “world” is f@cking disgusting  and their good graces not something you want.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sha-Sene/100002856648608 Sha Sene

    The Democrat liberals and NeoCon Republicans have the same foreign policy….see Bush and Obama

    Conservative postion…….Build strength and defenses  to prevent war , not start wars

    See ever American war in the 20th century was started by a Democrat liberal and/or Neocon(liberal) Republcian

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sha-Sene/100002856648608 Sha Sene

    Yeah you believe he can belong to an occult and “believe” in science.

    LOL

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sha-Sene/100002856648608 Sha Sene

    But their is no lack of foreign policy, it’s the same policy as Bush’s but on steroids.

    All of Obama liberal defenders have to become Bush Necons to claim that Obama has been successful

  • Go Navy

    You need help lady. Get a clue.

  • Intellibronc

    Is this an adolescent blog? Based upon the tripe written here, apparently it is.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FW7DSBQLP23N7SVCFY72ZWKOVE Iza Koon

    A country DOMINATED by PERVERTS—JEWS—NON-WHITES will FAIL under the WEIGHT of CORRUPTION!!!!!!

    REPEAL the 13th AMENDMENT

    REPEAL the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT of 1964
     
    and REPATRIATE ALL NON-WHITES!!!!

    RETURN the COUNTRY to the HUMANS!!!!!

    STOP THE MADNESS!!!!

  • Anonymous

    With your attitude towards your fellow man, woman & child of this world, and any other Americans who think the same as you, America will continue being hated around the world for decades to come.

    I’m always amazed at how a person can actually say or think they are so much more superior than the rest of the population of the world. Sha Sene, you might want to get off your holier than thou perch. Believe me, you are not that special.

  • TheeJoeGlass

    No, it tells me he’s right.

  • TheeJoeGlass

    “especially when they killed over 3,000 Americans in one day on 9/11/2001.”

    Countless millions for three thousand Americans???

  • TheeJoeGlass

    Stop trying to smear him with some nonsensical gibberish. The point is not about what you want to call him, it’s about the deaths of all the innocent peoples involved.

  • Anonymous

    Democrats are not scared of global warming. That is hyperbolic nonsense. 

  • Anonymous

    I applaud your sincere response. It was respectful even though I disagree with it. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    Holy Crap! Ahmadinejad is a Republican. Who knew? I’ll bet he’s a Tea Party supporter also.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BCULRJDS2747RLZD3DEBMB3KY4 GMW

    What chu mean us? Who is you?  

  • War_Wolf

    Unlike you liberal DUMOCRAPS who fear-monger the hell out of everything.

  • War_Wolf

    You truly are an idi0t.  Ghadaffia was not of his doing, even close.  Even then any participation in the matter on our part is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.  Additionally our involvement in libya did nothing for our country and now a radical islamic sharia-based government is being stood up there.  Secondly, Seal Team 6 (DEVGRU) -something you and your’s actually detest just the same as you do of the rest of us serving in the military and therefore are quite incredibly ignorant about- formulated the plan w/ CJSOTF and the CIA and executed as such.  The administration had next to nothing to do with the mission other than give a green light.  Even then 0bama had wanted to SLEEP ON IT before making a decision.  Pretty week all being said… had he said NO and it was found out as such, it would not have played out well with the American people.  

  • Anonymous

    Hey..War Kitty. it’s been proven with science that conservatives are scared little children.
    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/28/conservatives-fear-center-brain/

  • War_Wolf

    Only when it comes to the economy…. which is why the US is in the toilet fiscally/economically-speaking as we speak.

  • War_Wolf

    I’ll bet you’re fvcking idiot.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    You and Pad Dar remind me of a saying John Wayne once said..”Life is hard, but it is ten times harder if you’re stupid”. You and Pad Dar must lead extremely difficult lives. Obviously ten times harder than they should be.

  • Anonymous

    If you can’t understand that I can’t explain it to you. I suppose it would have been OK with you if we let them keep on killing Americans?

    Your attitude toward your countrymen is truly appalling.

  • Anonymous

    Then you have your mind made up. Why continue the discussion with you? I am not changing my mind for your sake, especially when you present no compelling reasons or evidence to back up your OPINION.

  • Anonymous

    Countless millions? Got any real data to back that ridiculous number up or is it just the one the guys at Media Matters told you to say?

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Yup. that’s Media Matter’s crap.

    “TMP”

  • American

    Yep, everything America does is wrong and evil.  Message received and discarded.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    Spoken like a true intellectual. It’s sad to see how home schooling is ruining this country and you’re a prime example.

  • jengel2000

    Why do you condone murder of foreign heads of state?  Who do you think you are?  Condoleeza Rice?

  • jengel2000

    He is a Statist. That is his ticket to wealth and power.  Like most Republicans,and ALL Democrats, he believes the State should reign supreme over all of us, and anything the heads of State get in their heads to do is all right, who cares what the Plebes think.  Don’t trust anyone who thinks a big federal government, or God forbid, WORLD government is a good thing.  Because you aren’t part of the equation.  At least not after the body disposal part.

  • Jo smo

    Is it some kind of joke to complain about not supporting a us president after the bush bashing that became borderline masturbation. Ha f*ckng ha ha so funny.

  • Gabachowhitebread

    So ! Liberals are for the death penalty, after all !!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Does anyone really care what this stooge thinks. Is Iran such a wonderful place to live with the religious fanatics telling people how to act, how to dress and throwing them into jail if they don’t have their headscarf on right. Ahmenijad should shut the f–k up till he gets his own act together. Whe people start moving to Iran in droves then he can talk.

  • Raj107

    Liberals will ruin this country by turning everything upside down and destroying what is great about this country.The whole notion of America being hated or imperialist is the biggest idiotic nonsense ever invented.IMPORTANT:You guys just need to watch (& re-watch)the following videos.  It explains EVERYTHING:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-cupdate:http://www.viddler.com/explore/tonykatz/videos/1/

  • Raj107

    Liberals will ruin this country by turning everything upside down and destroying what is great about this country.The whole notion of America being hated or imperialist is the biggest idiotic nonsense ever invented.IMPORTANT:You guys just need to watch (& re-watch)the following videos.  It explains EVERYTHING:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-cupdate:http://www.viddler.com/explore/tonykatz/videos/1/

  • Anonymous

    And the comedian lies at the start. Who said “America deserved 9/11?” CONSERVATIVE PREACHERS!!!
    We deserved it because we tolerate gays. We deserved it because abortions are not illegal. We deserved it because we are sex-crazy.
    Even Ron Paul says we should not be surprised that groups like Al Qaeda exist, not because we “deserve” to be attacked, but because our policies under Bush 2 were imperialistic from an Arab/Muslim point of view.

  • Anonymous

    Some of us are, yes.
    The absolute worst of psychopaths and haters should be executed, but that is just my opinion.

  • Patriot Man

    There’s a growing belief in America and the Western World that people deserve a million chances, that terrorists are just like us, but misunderstood, and that if we were only more cognizant of other cultures feelings, we’d all live in perfect harmony.The truth of the matter is that we’re sure our enemies have a thousand good reasons why they want us dead. We’re sure that their cultures, personal religious beliefs, or views on life point them towards the notion that the only path to righteousness is to wipe us, our families, and our culture off the face of the Earth.The rest of our society can make excuses for our enemies, explain how it is our fault, drop clichés like “violence begets violence” and “an eye for an eye just leaves the world blind”.But me?I’m just gonna kill the bastards. Ranger UP

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

    You, “Hassan” are clearly not us.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     ”It is better to be feared than loved.” I truly don’t consider their kindness worth working for, but their fear benefits us immensely. If we are hated, it is because we have worked hard to become fearsome. Communist China is doing the same thing now (Tibet, Xinjiang etc) Russia as well is not much loved. Britain and France are in no position to assail us, as both were responsible for their own imperial bloodshed. Don’t get me started on Germany.

  • http://twitter.com/esd2000 Er. D.

    Ahmadinejad criticizes President Obama-Republicans stand and cheer as they wear their flag-pins on their lapels the “patriots” that they are. IDIOTS.

  • Anna23

    But Hassan (and i do agree somewhat) as an american muslim since you feel it your duty to agree with those in iran..what about shouting to the rooftop all the iranian’s killed and tortured by their dictator? Strange how i am alway’s hearing about how bad our country is yet never hear about muslim leader’s who are killing their own people as well as torturing them. Maybe if more muslim’s would stand up against this muslim lives could be saved. And while your at it..what about standing against palestinan children’s programming that encourages innocent muslim children to praise sucide bomber’s and to hate american’s and jew’s? And what about raging against syria who slaughtered the town ppl. of Hama? Where was your voice when sadame hussein was killing and torturing his ppl.?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Grenader/1292485411 Peter Grenader

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