Ahmadinejad Has Gotta Love George Bush!

Ahmadinejad has gotto love George Bush! George Bush is the best thing that ever happened to Iran and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Think of all the wonderful things our President has done for his misbegotten country. · Bush took out Iran's bitterest enemies, Saddam Hussein and the Sunni claque in Iraq, and opened the way for an eventual Shiite domination of the country.

· Bush obliterated the Sunni Taliban in Afghanistan, another enemy of Iran.

· Our President's geopolitical adventures have tripled the cost of crude oil, thus swelling Iran's revenues to $45 billion last year, allowing them to fund Hezbollah activities. · Bush, by backing Israel, paved the way for a Hezbollah domination of Lebanon, upending the Sunni -- Christian -- Syrian supremacy.

· He has elevated Ahmadinejad and Iran from a minor league, two-bit player into the dominant force among the non-aligned countries in world politics and economics. Moreover, Ahmadinejad's greater prestige gives him leverage over the Ayatullahs, who wield the ultimate power in Iran. It would not be surprising if the wily Ahmadinejad deliberately lowers crude oil prices during the next few weeks, so that Republicans get re-elected and Bush gets to continue his cowboy ways. Ahmadinejad is clever enough to know that the only way the unpopular Bush can keep his Republican power base, is to have a definite enemy, a foil to rail against. It's a symbiotic relationship. Without Joe Frazier, Mohamed Ali could not shine.

With Kim Jong Il too weird and dangerous to fool around with, Bush needs a formidable adversary to keep playing "the madman-with-the-big-bomb" card.

Abadinajed seems to be more than willing to oblige -- for the moment. So the shrewd politician feints back and forth about having a bomb, increasing his international prestige, and providing his pal with a credible nuclear-armed boogeyman to terrify the local electorate. It's win win all around.