I-ran, " I(We are) am so scared!!!"

I must acknowledge that i am not an IAEA weapons inspector... I dont hold any grudge against the Americans... I must also accept the grim fact that i do not possess any political clout in the USA or anywhere in the world...

But its high time people woke up....

Iran is a Muslim country( i think it is!!) with a real hardliner at the helm of affairs...
His name is Ahmedinejad... Mahmoud Ahmedinejad... A few of his quotes will make anyone wake up(Even me sitting in the most boring of engineering lectures!!)... Exempli gratia: Israel must be destroyed... Israel must be removed from the world map... Either he's really serious or he is downright crazy.... Thats not for me to decide...

Ahmedinejad has this nagging tendency to make fiery speeches in front of huge crowds thereby drawing lots of publicity...He openly declares that Iran have restarted their nuclear program... This brings in the USA into the picture... The USA starts playing the role of the "Universal Policeman" again... They ask Iran to shut down their nuclear plants... Ahmedinejad continues to defy the US and goes ahead with his program claiming the processes involved are only for the generation of nuclear power...

The US continues to poke its abnormally long nose into the affairs of Iran... There has been no solution so far... Ahmedinejad as ever continues to tread a very dangerous path... Goofy George keeps threatening Iran with the usual unilateral military action... Because they know that no other country will support strikes against Iran( at least thats my opinion!!) The United Nations(of America!!!!) promises to send its team of weapons inspectors to Iran in order to keep a check on the development of nuclear weapons... They are doing their usual stunts trying to prove they are not "puppets" of the USA which is what the UN is, in reality...

Pretty recently Ahmedinejad shifted a bit from his staunch anti-West, anti-US stand by shooting off a letter to the US president..The letter is supposed to be an effort of appeasing the US stand on Iran... It promises that Iran does not intend to develop nuclear warheads... Ahmedinejad has played a deft trump card here... The letter gives ample proof for other countries to overrule any action that the US can take in the Security Council... But this also means that Iran gets time... And could go the North Korea way... These people overcame the US sanctions et al to develop several warheads against the wishes of the US... The US has surprisingly been making Iran a bigger issue than the Koreans who in fact have the real warheads....

Perhaps that is the crux of the issue... Triggering action against the North Koreans could actually lead to nuclear war... And Iran which has no warheads is still only a fledgling nuclear nation.. The US could make use of the Iranian oil before they actually start making the warheads... Sounds plausible...


A few days back i also came across a cartoon in the Hindu which i think might actually be true..It was extremely well crafted... The cartoon expressed in words goes this way... It shows a guy entering the room of the US President with a 18 page letter in his hand( Ahmedinejad's letter is that long!).. Mr. Bush on seeing the letter says that he has never received a 18 page letter from anyone in his life and that he will not read such a long letter... It might be the actual case... I dont know..

If US plans to attack Iran all i can say is all the best!!! But just be beware... First it was Vietnam Then it was Iraq... Perhaps Iran is due next.... Well i meant the drubbing that the USA received at the hands of other countries!!!

Demo of Democracy in India!!

Well it must be a billion years before the earth came into existence... And i think thats the last time i ever blogged.... Is it really so long?? Well not that long but long enough.... So u can consider this entry of mine as "a magnum opus" for some time.... I am still undecided on what to write.... Ok... Its time to enter one area i have never touched upon but i have been much fascinated by it... Make way for my entry into politics ( literally... at least gimme room to blog on it!!!)

India widely regarded as the world's largest democracy holds elections every year i think... There are elections for MP's, MLAs', Mayors' n what not...India's government at the Centre is elected for every 5 years but invariably some party pulls out of the govt after a year or so, true to its "secular" credentials or due to its election manifesto which must have stated clearly that either the govt allots it 10 ministers or we are out of the coalition within the next 10 mins ... Indian political parties with their leaders are the best set of negotiators the world can ever produce... Can handle any sort of deal...

Here's an idea of what democracy in India feels like....

- First atrocity is the multi - party system... There are atleast 6 or 7 parties contesting the elections in each state... Often noone gets the majority and there is a hung assembly...

- So we have a 2nd election where they again spend thousands of crores for some stupid candidate(s) who's spent half his life in jail... IF he loses he's sent to jail... Isn't it??

- When its election time each party campaigns for its candidates thereby spending huge amounts of money( where did it all come from??? ) to get to power... And all that for an MLA's post which does not give too much returns... You get a 5 digit salary and a lot of allowances but nothing compared to a top IT job i guess... Anyways spending lakhs of rupees for just getting a rather meagre salary is not why they wanna become a MLA...

- So whats the reason for becoming a MLA??? To serve the people.... Well i guess thats what the Constitution or some other Institution says... So do they really serve the people??? The only thing that they do is forget the constituency they stood in.... So what do they do? They swindle money from the MLA's fund for the constituency and not to mention the regular bribes from bigwigs and others... No wonder they are able to recover the campaign costs so quickly!!!

- And then each party comes up with a so-called manifesto where they pledge to do some great things for the improvement of the people... the state.. the country... what not?? they might even start pledging a fund against alien invasion... So what is the manifesto?? IT is a collection of papers that is thrown into the garbage once the election gets over... Nice definition right??

- Apart from the promises in the manifesto the parties make other promises... Significant promises which are actually implemented to an extent... But goes awry after sometime because some rival party finds out a shady deal in it.... For eg in the recent election in TN... DMK has promised rice at 2 rs a kg... A free TV etc... So the ADMK retorts with a 10 kg free rice offer... And to top it all.... Free Computers for students passing out from the 12th Std.... All this money comes from the govt supposedly.... Where did it come from right before the election???

-The people's mandate is another element that adds a comic touch to the elections especially in TN... For the past 4 or 5 elections or so no party has retained power after a term in power... 2001- ADMK where the winners... 1996- DMK where tyhe winners... 1991- ADMK where the winners... and so on... SO what does this imply??? The people make their choice by cancelling 1 party... And that too by the method of Inky Pinky Ponky Father Had a Donkey... Hope u remember... Luckily( for ADMK!!) a majority of them somehow cancelled DMK out in 2001 so ADMK came to power!!!

- Election Results.... Would have been real fun... But the Election Commission decided to introduce Electronic Voting Machines... Sadists....Have denied fun for the people by introducing Technology into elections....

- Post Elections.... The party that comes into power does some really noble acts....

1st thing that they do is put the Opposition leaders in jail and claim it NOT to be an act of revenge... Cool nah??? If you have a real bad enemy... ITs high time u joined politics...

Then what happens??

And then they(politicians in power!!) live happily ever after!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People??

Keep waiting for the next election.... The Opposition leaders have already started promising a golden era once they are re-elected!!