It's so easy to tell when this guy is confused, lying through his teeth, or just entirely unsure about what he's saying because he stutters and stumbles. He's as bad a public speaker as Bush is.

Also, you've gotta love his little remark at the end. Key words "average American"... as in only what the government tells you. Anyone who does a little research will see that the reporter was correct in his assertion that the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the power behind Iranian foreign policy. He has also has issued a fatwa saying the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons was forbidden under Islam. The fatwa was cited in an official statement by the Iranian government at an August 2005 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.

Also, for the record, Ahmadinejad never said that Israel should be "wiped off the map" in the American sense of the phrase because "no such idiom exists in Persian," according to Juan Cole, a University of Michigan Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History. Ahmadinejad's statement should be translated as:

The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e eshghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad).

In other words, the Zionist-Jewish regime, which has oppressed the Palestinian population in the region and seems to have a leash around the United States' neck, should collapse. That's no different than our own president trotting around talking about an Axis of Evil and saying we should invade Iraq. Neither of them is right, of course, but there should be a dialogue and diplomacy in an attempt to find a middle ground and prevent unnecessary bloodshed.