[MD] A President's blog

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

I read in an article in the newspaper today that the President of Iran, Dr. 
Ahmadinejad, has sent the American people a letter but the letter itself 
wasn't printed, only an excerpt. The article also mentioned that some time 
ago, Dr. Ahmadinejad had sent a letter to President Bush but it wasn't 
answered. Go figure.

I thought to myself, well, self, if the man is going to take his time to 
write to us, maybe we should at least read it and see if the letter deserves 
a response. I found that I was a bit pissed the letter wasn't printed in the 
paper but I am sure they have space limitations to worry about and cannot 
print stuff from just any bozo who decides to write to us. Still, I never 
read "real" newspapers, only the online kind so that rationalization doesn't 
hold up well. It smacks of propaganda but what does one expect.

I figured I could find the letter on the net. And sure enough...a quick 
google and I discovered Dr. Ahmadinejad has a blog with the letter posted:

http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/

Funny. The man seems quite a nice fellow...not at all the spooky freak that 
I keep reading about...the great satan who's threatening to nuke Israel off 
the map, destroy all the oil fields in the Middle East, and slap George 
Bush's mother around just for good measure.

No, this guy is actually writing a blog... in English! Intellectually, that 
seems impressive. And what he says makes quite a lot of sense if you read 
past all the holy stuff. I even thought about inviting him to join our 
discussion group here but on second thought I figured dmb would probably 
chase him away so I didn't.

You can read his writings for yourself and make up your own minds. Hey, a 
person can even leave comments for him to read. Pretty cool. I cannot help 
but think if more world leaders began blogging that perhaps we could avert 
many of the conflicts that arise. Or not.

Thoughts?