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To: lurqer who wrote (32871)	12/16/2003 2:21:37 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

This story should be good for a RW tizzy. World would be better without Bush, Iranian leader says Denouncing Saddam Hussein as a "bloodthirsty wolf," Iran's supreme leader expressed relief at his capture but said the world would also be better off without President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recalled that the United States ignored Tehran's early warnings about Saddam and supported Iraq's war against Iran in the 1980s that killed more than a million people on both sides. "The same Americans who are against Saddam now, including the current secretary of defense (Donald Rumsfeld), shook hands with him in Baghdad and supported him to put Iran under pressure," Khamenei told several thousand Iranians gathered in Qazvin, about 100 miles west of Tehran. The speech aired live on state-run television. Khamenei said he was relieved at the capture of "a bloodthirsty wolf in the shape of a human being." But if there were any illusions that the removal of Iran's longtime foe would win Washington any points with the country's hard-line clerics, Khamenei quickly dispelled them, pointing to Bush's remarks the day before. "I heard the U.S. president has said the world is better without Saddam. I want to tell him that the world will be even better without Bush and Sharon," Khamenei said. ... Several countries sold weapons to Iraq, including the former Soviet Union, France and Egypt. The United States is known to have provided intelligence and civilian helicopters, and Iranians believe that Washington also supplied weapons. from azcentral.com JMO lurqer