Following The Law: Presidents Ahmadinejad & Bush

Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Tuesday that Iran's disputed nuclear program is "closed" as a political issue and said Tehran will ignore U.N. Security Council demands and sanctions imposed by "arrogant powers" to curb its nuclear program.

Instead, he told world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly that Iran has decided to pursue the monitoring of its nuclear program "through its appropriate legal path," the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency.

Full A.P. wire service article, SF Chronicle, September 26, 2007

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So what we have here is a President who says his country will act like a semi-sovereign nation and pursue nuclear power but not nuclear weapons (the latter being reserved for more-fully-sovereign nations). At the same time, this President says he will comply with the law and allow oversight.

On the other hand, we have a dictator, er, "President", who has signed hundreds of declarations that he will not obey the law. Who will not allow any meaningful oversight of his reign of terror and, even worse, threatens to unleash death upon those--like members of the U.S. Congress--who ask too many questions. Who says that the President Of Iran--rather than the "President" Of The United States--is a threat to the law-abiding community of nations.

TLC