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To: Don Hurst who wrote (243474)	9/29/2007 7:03:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Sam, are you buying into this kind of stuff? If so, why? Khatami, the so called "moderate" never had any "power" so that was supposedly the reason to ignore him but Ahmadinejad has the ability to bring back the Madhi...Geez... If this is what Ahmadinijad believes - and he SAYS he believes it all the time - how can we afford to just blow off the possibity that he will act on his beliefs? You don't have to buy it 100% to have real and justified concerns. Let's look at it from the other side. Huge numbers of people seem to have no problem with the idea that Bush's evangelical faith is pushing him towards a Manichean world view and influencing his decisions. But Bush has said nothing, apart from very general expressions of faith, to support this idea. He has never once ended a speech by praying for the Second Coming. OTOH, Ahmedinijad routinely expresses apocalyptic wishes for the swift return of the Mahdi and expressed his faith that the return is imminent. Yet the same people who seem alarmed about Bush dismiss the possibility that they should worry about Ahmedinijad. Why? Because they don't speak Farsi or follow the news from Iran? Because it might help Bush? Is that a good reason?

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