Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah lives in such a parallel universe it’s always entertaining to point out his views. Nasrallah told a gathered crowd Israel started last summer’s war with Hezbollah on the orders of United States President George Bush, forgetting it was a Hezbollah action which started the war and that Israel is a sovereign nation rather than the foreign puppet within a sovereign nation that Hezbollah is.

“The one who fomented chaos in Lebanon, who destroyed Lebanon, who killed women and children, old and young in Lebanon, is George Bush and [Secretary of State] Condoleezza Rice, who ordered the Zionists to launch the war on Lebanon,” he said.

“The one who must be punished, who must be tried, is the one who ordered the launching of war on Lebanon,” Sheikh Nasrallah told the crowd.

“George Bush wants to punish you because you resisted, he wants to punish you because you won.”

He also accused Mr Bush and Israel of “trying to defeat resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq by starting civil wars”.

“Lebanon will not be defeated. We will not allow it to be invaded… we have proved that we are capable of defeating [invaders],” he said.

I must say I had entirely no idea Condoleezza Rice had anything to do with war planning, you know, being the top diplomat in the United States and all. What is interesting though is that Nasrallah feels whoever started the war should be punished, and I agree with him on that mark, but there was no war until Hezbollah attacked Israeli soldiers and took two hostage.

It is also Hezbollah who has saught to usurp the elected Lebanese government by holding mass demonstrations with paid protestors, demonstrations that became violent this past weekend. Unless Nasrallah somehow thinks President Bush controls Hezbollah, he’s once again proving to his followers just how deceitful he is, and they love him for it.

In related news, Yayha Jammeh, the President of Gambia, appeared on Al-Manar TV and made statements regarding what he calls Iran’s “peaceful nuclear program.”

Other small countries in the West have nuclear power plants, and that’s not an issue. Now, are they telling us that Arabs and Africans – and Muslims, for that matter – shouldn’t have nuclear weapons? If they don’t want us to have nuclear weapons, then what is their intention? But my principal belief is that nobody should have nuclear weapons. All countries should scrap their nuclear weapons, and you go back to a peaceful world. If not, every country has a right to nuclear weapons, because the way things are now – where you can sit down and then be invaded, because somebody is armed with nuclear weapons – the world is dangerous. (source)

If you’re a bit confused, I am too. Jammeh states he thinks all nations should get rid of nuclear weapons prior to this excerpt and accuses the West of having a double standard, but since this won’t likely happen, all nations have the right to have nuclear weapons.

It’s never been an issue of rights. It’s an issue of who the leadership of Iran consists of and their current and former ties to terrorists regime, regional instability and even apocalyptic desire. It’s hardly just the United States who views the Iranian regime as unsavory at best. It’s also Iranians and other regional nations.

Jammeh though believes in opening the world to nuclear weapons, only so the world could then get rid of them. But I thought he said Iran’s nuclear program was peaceful, something which I haven’t a clue how he would know about if the IAEA can’t seem to figure out through years of inspections.