the real Ahmadi-Najad letter

all kidding aside, here's the real letter. i read it, i wasn't really impressed (though he did make some points about our foreign policy and lapdog media that were true), but i think it's worth a read by anyone who doesn't just accept everything bush and his cronies administration says at face value. why the media gave bush's reaction without supplying what he was reacting to is beyond me, but they aren't doing their job. to me, that's a sad state of affairs...

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." —George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

compare that to this:

...After 9/11, instead of healing and tending to the emotional wounds of the survivors and the American people – who had been immensely traumatized by the attacks – some Western media only intensified the climates of fear and insecurity, constantly talking about the possibility of new terror attacks and keeping the people in fear. Is that service to the American people? Is it possible to calculate the damages incurred from fear and panic?

American citizens lived in constant fear of fresh attacks that could come at any moment and in any place. They felt insecure in the streets, in their place of work, and at home. Who would be happy with this situation? Why was the media, instead of conveying a feeling of security and providing peace of mind, giving rise to a feeling of insecurity?... —Mahmood Ahmadi-Najad

it's a scary world, but it's especially scary when you're told constantly, and over and over and over again, to be afraid... be very afraid... the bogeyman is out there in every imaginable shape.