crossposted on Docudharma

Here's what Sarah Palin told an international audience about the information and attitudes she has toward Iran, a nation that will loom large in the next decade and more of America's future:

An armed, nuclear armed especially Iran is so extremely dangerous to consider. They cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons period. Israel is in jeopardy of course when we're dealing with Ahmadinejad as a leader of Iran. Iran claiming that Israel as he termed it, a stinking corpse, a country that should be wiped off the face of the earth. Now a leader like Ahmadinejad who is not sane or stable when he says things like that is not one whom we can allow to acquire nuclear energy, nuclear weapons.

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...leaders like Ahmadinejad who would seek to acquire nuclear weapons and wipe off the face of the earth an ally like we have in Israel...

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 dictators who hate America and hate what we stand for, with our freedoms...

Palin and her handlers must be aware that her words will be fact-checked.  So you have to ask: where does she get her information?  How does her information square with other sources of information about Ahmadinejad? If her information is not consistent with other facts and reports, who is wrong?  Do Palin and her information sources know that their information is wrong?  If so, WHY DO THEY PERSIST IN LYING?  And if Palin and her handlers are lying, what can we assume about their character, their respect for the integrity of the communications process by which Americans make an extremely important decision -- the choice of the next leader of the nation; their respect for the people of the United States; their respect for Constitutional principles that are "what America stands for"?  

Who hates America more, Sarah Palin and her handlers, or Ahmadinejad and Iran?
You decide.
Above the fold:  What Sarah Palin said.
Below the fold:  Eye witness accounts from religious and civic leaders who spoke with Dr. Ahmadinejad on September 24, 2008.

What gives Bush the right to destabilize Iran by covert military operations?
by Brian Appleton(CASMII Columns)
Sunday, July 6, 2008

What a miserable little excuse for a human being Mr. Bush is. What gives him the right to attempt to destabilize the government of another country covertly with our tax payers money because they refuse to be his vassal state.

Amplifying a theme posted in my diary on DailyKos the other day, How to Reduce Gas Prices & Save US Economy: TRADE with Iran., Appleton wrote: