Jihad's Same Old Tricks

Yasser Arafat, the Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 through 2004, had an amazing talent for speaking peace in English and war in Arabic. Evidently Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was paying attention and taking notes.

The language may be Farsi, but it is the same lie - the same misrepresentation of intents. The media are much too anti-Bush to "take sides" and expose the inconsistencies of Ahmadinejad's words and behavior, so there is no way to evaluate the Iranian President's "performance" at the United Nations other than to say it was a triumph of propaganda.

Senator George Voinovich of Ohio called Ahmadinejad "...a Hitler kind of person," and watching this little tyrant preach to the morally challenged body in New York was reminiscent of the Nuremberg Rallies - a nut leading the naive - a deadly affectation of peaceful diplomacy.

I wonder how many people here and around the world were suckered-in by his lies. As in the 60 Minutes interview, the Iranian leader "waxed reasonable." But isn't this the same Ahmadinejad who speaks prophetically of the coming of the Muslim divine savior, known as the Mahdi - the same Ahmadinejad who denies the Holocaust- the same Ahmadinejad who calls for the destruction of Israel?

The anti-war crowd surely eats this stuff up, as they lean toward their television screens with hope-filled eyes. But the discerning eye sees Ahmadinejad holding a naive world to his breast... nursing it with lies - knife in hand.