From The Nation:
Ahmadinejad Meets US Peace Movement by Robert Dryfus
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/36429/ahmadinejad_meets_us_peace_movement

From U.S. News and World Report:
Iran’s President Says United States Too Weak to Attack Iran
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/09/25/irans-president-says-united-states-too-weak-to-attack-iran.html

From Code Pink:
Official release: CODEPINK activists and other peace organizations meet with
Iranian president in New York
http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2008/09/official-release-leading-codepink-activists-and-other-peace-organizations-meet-with-iranian-president-in-new-york/

U.S. “peace” groups organized a meeting with Ahmadinejad this week in NY. Info here: http://forusa.org/programs/iran/2008dialogue.htm

A follow-up meeting will also be held. Info here: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0925/p02s03-usgn.html

“Iran students unveil book mocking Holocaust”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080926111949.vk2p8oxk&show_article=1&lst=1

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/24/ahmadinejad/

“Committed Zionists, that is to say, Jewish nationalists, who believe that Israel must remain a Jewish-majority state, often see the advocacy of a one-state solution (in which Israeli Jews might be reduced to a simple majority or even only a plurality of the population) as a dire threat to the Jewish people. They are also known to smear anyone who demurs from their rigid conception of nationalism as an anti-Semite or even a terrorist. However, neither their conviction that any criticism of Israel must be prohibited, nor their insistence on a state dominated by a single ethnicity, nor their often unpleasant tactics of the destruction of reputations should stand in the way of Americans seeking an unblinkered understanding of contemporary Iran and pursuing American interests in regard to relations with Tehran.”

Cole is endorsing Ahamadinejad’s view expressed in his speech at the UN that a small clique of Zionists control the US.

Not surprisingly he never mentions that speech at the United Nations.

To Juan Cole the Iranian thug in chief is innocent of antisemitism, it’s the Zionist Jews who are guilty of pretty much everything Ahmadinejad says they are guilty of.

http://tinyurl.com/steelewrongonbombs

on a related matter here Jonathan Steele confirms that his capacities as a military analyst are on a par with his ability to think seriously about politics.

He says,

“The US announced two weeks ago that it would sell Israel 1,000 bunker-busting bombs. The move was interpreted by some analysts as a consolation prize for Israel after Bush told Olmert of his opposition to an attack on Iran. But it could also enhance Israel’s attack options in case the next US president revives the military option.
The guided bomb unit-39 (GBU-39) has a penetration capacity equivalent to a one-tonne bomb. Israel already has some bunker-busters.”

As the dogs on the streets know, the GBU-39 has only limited capacity to penetrate concrete and was designed to allow aircraft to carry more, smaller and more accurate bombs that would do the same damage for less weight and would have a greater stand off capability. It wouldn’t be of any use against targets buried under many metres of reinforced concrete but will come in dead handy should push come to shove in south Lebanon again.

You can see a very nice video of a GBU-39 penetrating an aircraft shelter here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfRWh2FTZks

Note blast being reflected back off the inside walls of the shelter.

The real bunker-buster is the GBU-28, one hundred of which Israel is believed to have bought in 2005