In a message dated 1/24/07 4:36:30 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My *point* was, of course, that when he said "Absolutely, we're winning," we weren't winning by any stretch of the imagination. When he admitted this to the Washington Post, and they asked him why he had said we *were* winning, he responded that he believed we were *going* to win--i.e., he was being prophetic. You said Ahmadinejad would look like a nut if he were being merely prophetic about Israel and the U.S. being destroyed, as opposed to having in mind a way to destroy them (i.e., a threat). So I'm asking (you carefully snipped it), why doesn't Bush look like a nut as well? Bush's statement "We are winning", based on "that he believed we would" is hardly being prophetic. Confident, maybe hopeful, but not prophetic. He can have that confidence based upon the fact that he is involved in the process of what is going on in Iraq, where as Ahmadinejad says with all confidence that Israel and the US will cease to exist within what, two years? On what basis? Is he involved in some plan for them to cease to exist or has Allah personally told him that they will cease to exist? There is no comparison of the two and their statements.