Two comments , Pepe is right regards that this is a significant underlying factor<<For instance, fundamentalist Christians in the US - who support Zionism for theological reasons - unleashed a ferocious media campaign depicting Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad as the Antichrist who wants to destroy Jerusalem and prevent Jesus' comeback.>> and makes up a bit for his rant against the Mahdist, when we are the same ---hypocrisy is at times when we can't see ourselves in the very things we are condemning.
<<As some Iranian analysts and ministry officials have told Asia Times Online in Tehran off the record, there are reasons to believe the leadership is misreading an avalanche of US signs related to the military and psychological preparation for a possible war.>>
Comment: in the specific, that being in the singular person, of Ahmadinejad, i will state he is NOT misreading the U.S.
Plus he said some Iranian analysts and ministry officials, well how much is that some a % of the whole???????????????? That's s too vague for me,
Pepe is well worth reading, but i will be commenting a fair amount on what he says, because, to be frank, i don't like Pepe:) Why? i will state i have a memory the NEVER forgets when a person reveals something about himself that i see as that as being an elitist snob.
i won't bother to remind what it was that signalled that to me.
i simply have zero time to back track.
o this needs comment <<There are even indications that the Iranian leadership has not taken the Bush administration's explicit desire for regime change seriously. >. o now Pepe is buttering his preferred bread very thickly; he is working hard to convince himself he is right.
One, he goes into apoplexy in his rant against Ahmadinejad, and now he is scuffling to assure himself that Ahmadinejad is the "dumbo"---Pepe has an agenda, even though he doesn't know it, imo.
I , will state, that In MY HUMBLE OPINION, Pepe is LOST in this maze, and i am not(LOL!).
As ALWAYS only time will decide who is right and NOTHING other than TIME will decide that. Max