IRAN EMULATES THE U.S.

IRAN AND THE AMERICAN TALIBAN
CHENEY & RUMSFELD ROOT AGAINST U.S. INTERESTS

Ultra-conservative religious zealot, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wins big in Iran and mirrors the election of George W. Bush last November when he narrowly defeated John Kerry with almost unanimous support of ultra-conservative religious zealots in the U.S. Ken Pollack of the Brookings Institution admits that 'U.S. hawks have a "bizarre preference" for Iran's new president.

It may be 'bizarre' to Mr. Pollack, but isn't 'bizarre' at all to those honest enough to admit who the religious bigoted zealots are in this country.

'As hardliners and pragmatists battle it out in the final round of Iran's presidential election today, rifts within the Bush administration have exposed a lack of coherent US policy towards the Islamic republic, as well as serious differences with much of Europe'.

"The Bush administration is as deeply divided as the Iranian government," commented Ken Pollack, analyst at the Brookings Institution.

'US "hawks", he said, had a bizarre preference for Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, a fundamentalist and hardliner, over Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president who sought to establish his more pragmatic credentials in part by making overtures to the US during his election campaign'.

'For the US hardliners, led by Vice-President Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary, Mr. Rafsanjani presents the danger of exacerbating the divisions between the US, which is essentially trying to contain Iran, and Europe which favors the engagement approach'.

Cheney and Rumsfeld once again going against what was best for the U.S.