This should be made into a Snopes entry. I thought it at the time that this was an intentional mistranslation...and it was.
"â"Many believe Ahmadinejad has threatened to obliterate Israel because many news outlets ran a dubious translation of the Iranian president's remarks, suggesting he wanted to wipe Israel off the map. Iran has made clear, and scholars around the world have agreed, this translation was wrong. Ahmadinejad did say he hoped Israel's regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse. While far from friendly, this is far short of genocidal and, let's admit, the feeling is mutual in that the West hopes the Iranian regime will collapse."" so why was the US so eager to paint Iran in this light? http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Iran+Bomb+avoiding+calamity/5965821/story.html Reckless talk of war indeed. http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/09/reckless-talk-of-war-with-iran-makes-confrontation-a-probability/ I wonder if websites and blogs posting articles such as these will run afoul of SOPA and PIPA in the future as they buck the trend and tone set by the mainstream media reports? >_> <_< DRRRRRAMAAAA!!!! ^_^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345195 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
