During the coverage of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s speech where he said “Israel must be wiped off the map,” very little of it was given to the other target of Ahmadinejad’s wrath. I presented a picture in the origninal post that showed Ahmadinejad standing in front of a graphic with a ball painted with the U.S. flag lying on the ground broken and a ball with the Star of David falling.

There’s more to that graphic, thus more to his meaning.

Regime Change Iran has all of the pertinent Ahmadinejad quotes and was the one who found the full picture.

It does not take a rocket scientist, for I am not one, to figure out what Ahmadinejad’s plan is. He intends to destroy the United States which will make Israel topple. Ahmadinejad though believes the United States has already fallen, from where he gets that impression I’m not sure but he hasn’t called me to ask my opinion. Considering part of the graphic is in English, the audience was not just whomever was sitting in the seats in front of Ahmadinejad or other Iranians who might hear of the event, it was the English speaking world too.

Why though has there been so little, if any, coverage of his statements against the United States even in the U.S. press? Sure, threats and ridiculous statements coming from Iran are as old as the Islamic Revolution, but every week we hear another journalist decry a statement from someone in the Bush Adminstration towards Iran as ‘unprovoked.’ Occassionally we the American public are treated to opinion pieces stating President Bush is stoking the fires to go to war in Iran.

Does the no-mention of the rest of Ahmadinejad’s statements adhere to some sort of policy within some media circles not to report the full story when it might mean the opinion pieces previously written were wrong? Sadly, it appears so.