Sunday August 8, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

Ahmadinejad came out with his own information about 9-11 on Saturday. His goal is to position himself as the only leader capable of successfully challenging the established West.

On Saturday Ahmadinejad announced that:
9-11 was a fiction
the numbers were invented
he never saw a list of names of victims.

Ahmadinejad said that the Zionists were told not to come to work that day. He added that the Holocaust was also a fiction, a fictional tool used by the Zionists to gain sympathy.

Why is he saying all of this and why is he saying it now?
Ahmadinejad is making a play to isolate the West and concentrate power and strength in a non-Western block.

The most dramatic conspiracies to circulate throughout the non-Western world center around 9-11 and about the Holocaust . If Ahmadinejad can add fuel to the proverbial fire on these issues, he becomes the most public personality and influential international leader able to support a bid against the West.

In general, political leaders shy away from publicly speaking out on theories fearing that the US will slap them down. Instead these writings and ideas find themselves in mosques and in non-establishment publications and on websites.

Ahmadinejad is making these ideas mainstream. He is giving voice to a gargantuan mass that believe this rhetoric.

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