60 Minutes Interviews Ahmadinejad

As the war between Israel and Lebanon comes to an end and as Iran approaches the 27th of August, the date which is marked as the day that Iran should stop enriching Uranium, Iran becomes a hot topic on the news. Incidently, CBS showed an interview of Mike Wallace asking President Ahmadinejad about Israel, Bush, Nukes, Iran's position in Iraq and it's support of Hezbollah. I have to say that up until now I thought Ahmadinejad was as dumb as they come ( I of course reside outside of Iran and the news I get is out of CNN and CBS), but this interview changed my mind. He had rational answers and was polite and professional in respond to Wallace’s anxious, angry and scattered questions. I especially liked the part when Wallace directly ordered the president to answer a “yes or no” to his questions and the president said, “well sir you ask a question that is about 3 minutes and you expect a yes or no answer? Is this a multiple choice test or an interview?”
Through out the whole interview Wallace asked questions without listening to answers, and this just proved the presidents intellectual superiority and Wallace’s incompetence, as a Western interviewer who had not done his homework and was completely biased and close minded going into the interview. One part of the interview was especially interesting to me. When asked about why the president called holocaust a myth he answered, “what I said was, if this is real, where did it take place?… In Germany. "Well, if an atrocity was committed in Germany or Europe for that matter, why should the Palestinians answer for this?" the president asked. "They had no role to play in this. Why on the pretext of the Holocaust they have occupied Palestine? Millions of people have been made refugees. Thousands of people to-date have been killed, sir. Thousands of people have been put in prison. Well, at the very moment, a great war is raging because of that." And Wallace’s respond was, "Look if you could — if you could keep your answers concise. Concise. I beg you. We'll get more questions in”! And the last question was, "You have a special unit of martyr seekers in your revolutionary guard. They claim they have 52,000 trained suicide bombers ready to attack American and British targets if America should attack Iran." Ahmadinejad’s reply was, "So, are you expecting the Americans to threaten us and we sit idly by and watch them with our hands … tied?" I guess now we know why president Bush "dismissed" the 18 pages letter that Ahmadinejad wrote to him. Quite simply if Bush had to talk with Ahmadinejad he would be bombarded with facts he doesnt like. For him war is simply more profitable than sitting down and listening to Ahmadinejad quoting Jesus on how Christians should act! If you are further interested you can read the whole interview, or Watch parts of it on video!