ISRAELI PM OLMERT PRAISES BUSH OVER STANCE ON IRAN

Critical of last week’s National Intelligence Estimate over Iran’s nuclear capabilities, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated Iran’s desire to create nuclear weapons still posed a danger to Israel and the world.

“Iran continues its activities to enrich uranium, and even according to the NIE report, it is likely to accumulate sufficient amounts to create a nuclear weapon by 2010,” Olmert said. “Iran was, and remains dangerous, and we must continue international pressure with full force to dissuade Iran from nuclear tendencies.”

Olmert went on to praise President George Bush for his statements that, despite the NIE report, Iran continued to pose a danger to world peace. He also praised Bush’s call for a third resolution from the UN on sanctions against the Islamic state. “I trust and am confident that the United States will continue to lead the international campaign to stop the development of a nuclear Iran,” Olmert said.

Who can blame Olmert and Bush for their tough stance against Iran? The Islamic republic’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has stated publicly that Israel should be wiped off the map. Additionally, last year’s ‘International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust,’ which was called for by Ahmadinejad, was widely recognized as an attempt to make Holocaust Denial a respectable scholarly enterprise. Needless to say that the conference, which after two days of debate essentially dismissed the Holocaust as fiction was an insult to history and the countless victims of Nazi horror. It also illustrates quite clearly the madness of Ahmadinejad and Iran’s utter disregard for world opinion.