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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The Right Wing Lore on Ahmadi-Nejad

Iran is too complex for right-wing commentators.

Fallback: they keep repeating "wipe off the map", a phrase that was never uttered and is a brutal translation of what he actually said (even the Israelis admit this).

The propagation of that urban legend is reaching the same proportions as those trumpeted against Saddam, like the myth that "Saddam kicked out the inspectors" in 1998.

How post-structural do all of us sound, eh, AS?