---- LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is little more than a figure head in Iran. A little man with a big mouth that is getting more attention than he deserves or is warranted. The real power, the mover and shaker is eerily almost melodramatically refereed to the supreme leader, named Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, this guy is the one who rules in this theocracy<>. This guy hates the west more than anyone with the all the religious zeal of a, well, a zealot. While Ahmadinejad is out front blustering and postering and threatening Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is in his ear whispering.

---- AND THINGS ARE GETTING TENSE as if, taking the bait, frighteningly so Bush as issued a familiar refrain. Why oh why doesn't this shit kickin' poser at least try to talk reasonably with powers and countries that could make life rather more unpleasant in a lot of ways.