--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/24/07 12:11:19 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Now, is Ahmadinejad actually "threatening" annihilation or is he > > speaking "prophetically" of annihilation? He can't blame people > > if they take it as a threat and if he only means it > > prophetically then he comes off as a nut. > > > > You mean, like Bush when he said, "We're winning in > > Iraq"? > > > > I don't see the link between Bush's comment "we are winning" and > > Ahmedinejad's comment that the US and Israel > > will which is made while they are knowingly making nuclear > > weapons. > > Bush was speaking "prophetically" of winning > in Iraq (he said so himself). So why don't you > think he comes off as a "nut"? > > I would have to see the context under which he said it and when. > Did he say so based on his own "feelings" or based on information > he was receiving from his advisors and the military in the field?
Obviously the former. It's been some time since he's received any such "information" from his advisors or the military. >From an AP article reporting on Bush's interview with the Washington Post December 20, 2006: "Asked to reflect on his Oct. 24 statement that 'absolutely, we're winning,' Bush said that response was 'an indication of my belief we're going to win.'" http://tinyurl.com/2otwl4 Here's the complete transcript of the interview in the Post: http://tinyurl.com/y4tt23
