What the fuck has he been drinking?

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Thursday that Iran was the world's "number one" power, as he launched a bitter new assault on domestic critics he accused of siding with the enemy.

"Everybody has understood that Iran is the number one power in the world," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to families who lost loved ones in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

"Today the name of Iran means a firm punch in the teeth of the powerful and it puts them in their place," he added in the address broadcast live on state television.

You're the number one power in the world?  How the hell did you come to that conclusion?  Nut job world leaders?  Ok, I might give you that one.  Economy?  Medical research? Military might? Amount of Muslims per capita?  You're not even close in any of those areas.

If Iran means a "firm punch in the teeth", then why did you give up your nuclear weapons program in 2003, like the NIE claims?  If that's true, then the only reason would be that you shit yourselves when you saw America coming for Iraq and how we weren't putting up with bullshit anymore.

If that's not true, and you ARE after nuclear weapons, like I personally believe, then why are you not being open about it?  If you were the "number one power in the world", you could just simply come out and say "yeah, we are, so what"?  But you aren't, and that's because you're scared shitless about Israel's reaction and Russia coming around to the side of the US.

Whatever you've been drinking, I'd love to try it.  It sounds like it gives illusions of grandeur, the likes of which the world has never seen.

 

Travis

travis@rightwinglunatic.com